“One of my favorite things about Tokyo Maker Faire is all of the crazy little flying machines”. We are twitting the pictures as we take them, so tune in to our twitter account, or wait till we post them on the blog. Check out lots of pictures below the fold.
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App note: Energy harvesting applications with the LTC3588
Here’s a video from Linear Technology describing how to power microcontroller systems with Piezoelectric energy harvesting power supply IC LTC3588-1. It incorporates a full bridge rectifier, and a switch-mode regulator into one IC. New developments in ultralow power microcontrollers with their high level of integration are enabling monitoring systems which draw sub milliwatts of power. […]
Tokyo Maker Faire 2012: Robots and Art day 1
“Really big freaking robot. I imagine James Cameron is around here somewhere”. Follow the pics live with our twitter feed, or wait for them to pop up on the blog. More pics below the fold.
Booths and Exhibits at Tokyo Maker Faire day 1
Superhacker Yoshi with his wireless LAN shield for Arduino. Follow the pics live with our twitter feed, or wait till we post them on the blog. More pics below the fold.
Tokyo Hackerspace table at Maker Faire day 1
Tokyo Hackerspace displays kits and other open hardware at Maker Faire. Follow the pics live with our twitter feed, or wait for them to pop up on the blog.
Tokyo Maker Faire 2012: Around the Faire day 1
Food trucks outside Maker Faire Tokyo. Getting ready to cover Faire for Make mag and give a talk at 4 on open hardware. Follow the pics live with our twitter feed, or wait for them to pop up on the blog. More pics below the fold.
App note: Similarities of Wave Behavior
Here is a video from the Bell Laboratories archives. It describes the similarities in wave behavior in all mediums, be it electric, sound, or mechanical. On an elementary conceptual level, this film reflects the multifaceted scientific hyperthinking that was typical of a Bell Labs approach. Host Dr. J.N. Shive’s presence as a lecturer is excellent […]
Workshop Update for November 30th, 2012
We’ve finalized our xQFP footprints. The pads in the old design were short, making soldering hard. The new design remedies that, and comes with our standard CC BY-SA license. The files are available in our Eagle library.
XC9572XL CPLD development board back in stock
XC9572XL CPLD development board v1b are back in stock at Seeed Studio. CPLDs are programmable logic gate arrays which allow you to build custom logic devices simply by programing them. Get the XC9572XL dev-board for $15 and CoolRunner-II development board for $15.
PIC32 8 channel version of the Logic Shrimp
Marcus is designing an 8 channel version of our Logic Shrimp. It features a PIC32 microcontroller driving overclocked SRAM chips for more then 20 MSamples/s. It’s designed to fit a 3cmx3cm PCB rendered above. Get a Logic Shrimp from Seeed for $35. Via the forum.
Free PCB coupon via Facebook to 2 random commenters
Every Friday we give away some extra PCBs via Facebook. This post was announced on Facebook, and on Monday we’ll send coupon codes to two random commenters. More PCBs via Twitter on Tuesday and the blog every Sunday. Don’t forget there’s free PCBs three times every week: Free PCB Sunday. The classic. Every week, get […]
Week in (p)review November 30, 2012
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Stroll down Akihabara Electric Town Akihabara’s best picks Global Geek Tour: Visit Tokyo Hackerspace Bus Pirate on EEVblog We added guest PCBs from Boseji to our free PCB drawer Check out Nickjohnson’s Loki PSoC based development board and Cpirius’ DIY […]
Bus Pirate in DEFCON 20 presentation
S3c writes to inform us that the Bus Pirate got a mention in DEFCON 20 talk on reversing smart meters. From what we were able to ascertain from the video the Bus Pirate is used to read memory devices located on the smart meter boards. Via the contact form. Get your own Bus Pirate for […]
Workshop Update for November 29th, 2012
Ian visits Tokyo’s Akihabara electric town, and rides the second coolest escalator ever. Goes up, then flat, the up some more. In case you’re wondering the best escalator was a circular one in Hong Kong Times Square. We continue to work on our xQFP breakout board updates.
Precision 1V reference
Need a precision reference to make sure your measurements are on the nose? Here is a simple breakout Dolabra designed for just that purpose. It’s a ADR510 based battery powered 1V reference, with +0.35% tolerance and 70 ppm/C temperature stability. Via the forum.
Akihabara’s best picks
As promised, here are the pictures of stuff we found cool at Akihabara shops. Even though the prices are a little higher then eBay or TaoBao, Akihabara offers you to touch and feel components you couldn’t online. Similar to Shenzhen’s electronic markets, with the advantage that you don’t have to bargain for everything you buy. […]
Stroll down Akihabara Electric Town
Ian’s visiting Tokyo for this weekend’s Maker Faire. He stopped by Akihabara electric town to check out some goodies. Armed with a Japanese data SIM he was able to tweet live pictures of the stroll. More pictures below the fold.
Using our boards with Windows 8
Due to Window 8’s requirement that all drivers need to be signed, some of our boards requiring USB drivers might not work with it. RadiatorTwo shared a workaround witch should work. Basically you need to turn off the signed driver requirement. You can deactivate the forcing of signed drivers by using following Settings. Open a Command […]
MSP430 board guest PCBs
Boseji from m8051 gave us these PCBs on the second day of the Bangalore geek tour. We added them to our free PCB drawer. The QFP package MSP430F5310 is a nice MSP430 chip that can be programmed and debugged using the MSP430 launchpad. They are presently under CC-BY-SA so you can go ahead if you […]
Comments with links will require manual approval due to spam overload
We are being spammed like crazy and the a kismet filter seems helpless to stop it. Until we can get a handle on it all comments with any links at all will have to be manually approved. So sorry for the inconvenience, we’re working on a custom plugin based on lessons learned from the forum […]