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Workshop Update for May 17th, 2012
Today Ian is in San Francisco for the Bay Area Maker Faire enjoying the Mission Street Taco crawl. Part Ninja firmware is moving along. Today we fixed some bugs, cleaned up some earlier functions. We also added a special ADC function that has low acquisition time for MOSFET readings. We made a tutorial on how […]
IV-11 VFD tube clock
Haris built this handsome IV-11 VFD clock and wooden case. VFD tubes are similar to Nixie tubes, but use much lower voltages. Via the forum.
El wire controlled with sound using MIDI
Paul’s El wire controller pulses electroluminescent wire to sound using the MIDI protocol output by many musical instruments. It’s based on SparkFun’s El wire sequencer, with a custom board decoding the MIDI information.
WORKSHOP VIDEO #22: How we prepare for the Bay Area Maker Faire
This week we are visiting the Bay Area Maker Faire, so here is a video to explain how we prepare for Maker Faires. You can also check out our Maker Faire tips post, or the wiki version. We’ll have regular updates form the Faire on our blog, and Twitter feed. Stuff to bring to a […]
Digital saxophone emulator
Brian built a digital saxophone emulator. A mic is used to detect the pressure blowing onto the mouthpiece, while buttons detect the notes selected. An Atmel breakout board generates the sound based on these two factors. Via Hacked Gadgets.
FT232-based LCD backpack free PCB build
Kelvin built a free FT232-based LCD backpack PCB. I have built the FT232-based LCD backpack free PCB for quite a while However, the free application provided by the project doesn’t seem to work for me. Only until recently did I manage to find the time to write a utility in Linux for the LCD backpack. I […]
Workshop Update for May 16th, 2012
Ian is on his way to the Bay Area Maker Faire, and is having a hard time with Air France. We continue our redesign of the secret board, we are also working on a tutorial explaining how to make separate power planes with Cadsoft Eagle. Firmware for the Part Ninja is progressing along. We trashed […]
HOW-TO: Visit Bay Area Maker Faire
We are off to the Bay Area Maker Faire, and we’d like to share some of the tips we picked up on our previous visit there. Below are our tips for both visitors, and participants. If you are in the area be sure to drop by.
DIY sous-vide cooker
Here is a tutorial on how to build a sous-vide cooker. Sous-Vide cookers cook food placed inside a plastic bag, which is inserted into temperature controlled bath. NerdKits describes all the theory, along with plenty of instruction on how to build your own. Via Hacked Gadgets.
MMA7455L soldering explained
In our previous Workshop Video we mentioned we asked Pietja to solder up those pesky MMA7455L accelerometers. Here is how he got around to doing it. Check out the pics and his instructions below. Ian asked me to solder some MMA7455L on the USB POV Toy boards. So when I got them the first thing […]
Pinguino32-DIY PIC32 development board with the Pinguino bootloader
Pinguino design team released the design for the Pinguino32 PIC32 development board using their Pinguino bootloader. It supports PIC32MX250F128, and PIC32MX220F032B microcontrollers. The design is open source, and made with KICAD software. Download it from their Google code area.
USBug LPC1343 development board update
A few days ago we wrote about the open source USBbug LPC1343 development board designed by Squonk. He started a GitHub page for his project, and shared the first pic of the built board. Via the forum.
Workshop update for May 15th, 2012
Today we continue to prepare for the Bay area Maker Faire. We also made the workshop video today instead of Thursday, it’ll be about Maker Faire of course. If you subscribe to our YouTube channel you might even be able to preview the video early. On the design side we continue to adjustment an unnamed […]
Big box of traveling parts update
A while back we started a big box of traveling parts in the forum. We had lots of stuff we didn’t need so we packed it in a box and sent it along to Sjaak. He took some things out, added some goodies, and passed it to Riktw. Today Riktw posted pictures of his deposit […]
Line following robot based on the dsPIC33
Exapod is building a line following robot based on the dsPIC33 and stuff he won from SparkFun‘s giveaways. Watch the little robot race through Monza in a video below. i’m planning of building a robot with a dspic33fj128mc804 and two encoders for implement some dead reckoning algorithms so for learn something on the dspics i […]
#FreePCB via Twitter to 2 random RTs
Every Tuesday we give away two coupons for the free PCB drawer via Twitter. This post was announced on Twitter, and in 24 hours we’ll send coupon codes to two random retweeters. Don’t forget there’s free PCBs three times a every week: Hate Twitter and Facebook? Free PCB Sunday is the classic PCB giveaway. Catch […]
Robots’ extreme soldering
From IRC we bring you some pics of Robots’ mad soldering skills. This QFN chip is dead-bugged onto the back of another chip. Below there’s another QFN chip broken out with wire. Please send in your pics of extreme soldering via the contact form.
SARduino 644/1284 board free PCB build
Slack built the SARduino 644/1284 board by Andrew Schamp he got from our free PCB drawer. It’s an prototyping board with support circuitry for Arduino compatible ATmega AVRs. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the […]
Workshop Update May 14th, 2012
Today and tomorrow we’re preparing for the Bay Area Maker Faire this weekend. Skot is going to display the DigitGrid project (show above) with us at Maker Faire. Stop by and check it out. The taco crawl is booming this year. Jeff from MighyOhm is coming. Will you be there? We’re packing all the cool […]