Friday, August 19th, 2016
[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZwv7TxqZ0[/embed] Microsoft is announcing PowerShell on Linux and open source, that is available on GitHub: Today, we are taking the next step in our journey. I am extremely excited to share that PowerShell is open sourced and available on Linux. (For those of you who need a refresher, PowerShell is...Tags: Linux, Microsoft
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2016
Open source hardware digital signal processing platform from Paul Janicki: The open hardware DSP platform is a range of small boards that can be plugged together to give you a flexible platform for processing all sorts of audio signals. If you want a simple crossover, a custom USB soundcard and headphone...Tags: audio, DSP
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Saturday, July 30th, 2016
Boris Landoni from Open Electronics writes about a new open source 3D Scanner made with Raspberry Pi: This being said, we may move on to talk about our 3D scan approach, that consists in using a linear laser, that is, one capable of drawing a vertical line having a constant luminous intensity, and...Tags: 3D, Raspberry Pi, scanner
Posted in 3D fabrication, open source, R-Pi | 6 Comments »
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwmbz31pkSY[/embed] Tom Keddie posted a video showing his OpenPnP pick and place build.Tags: OpenPNP, pick and place
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Monday, June 6th, 2016
Dan Watson documented on his blog an open source Arduino-compatible Cherry MX keypad he designed using the ATmega32U4 microcontroller: The board that I designed includes four Cherry MX keys. I used MX Blues, but it is also compatible with other types such as Brown and Red. It's simply a matter...Tags: Atmega32u4, keypad
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2016
David Spinden writes, "Wanted to pass along an open source hardware circuit board tool that allows a person that has a circuit board that has vias for .1 inch headers, but has no headers to prototype for their idea. Using a spring contact, the ViaConnect attaches directly to the via....Tags: circuit board tool
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Thursday, May 5th, 2016
Dan Watson documented on his blog an OCXO upgrade board he designed for the Fluke/Philips PM66xx line of frequency counters: My counter came with the standard XO timebase option, which has fairly poor specs for stability and drift. It is difficult to trim precisely with the single-turn trimmer capacitor on...Tags: frequency counter, OCXO, Philips PM6674
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Thursday, April 21st, 2016
Dilshan Jayakody documented his USB port base NPN transistor curve tracer project: Curve tracer is an electronic test instrument to analyze the characteristics of transistors and other discrete semiconductors. In this post we construct USB base curve tracer to analyze properties of NPN transistors. This curve tracer is build around Microchip's...Tags: Curve Tracer, npn, PIC18F4550, transistor
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Friday, April 1st, 2016
Peter van der Walt from OpenHardware.co.za has published his newest machine design - an open source pick and place machine, that is available at github. Project info at OpenHardware.co.za.Tags: pick and place machine
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Monday, February 29th, 2016
Ethan Zonca from Protofusion writes, "After making the switch from AVR to STM32 microcontrollers, I redesigned my old 6-pin ICSP pogo-programming adapter for SWD. The new design allows programming with pogo pins or a small pin header soldered to the pogo pads for debugging, all with the same cable. The...Tags: programming adapter, ProtoProg, SWD
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Thursday, February 25th, 2016
Tom Whitwell from Music Thing Modular built a DIY control board for Axoloti, that is available on Github: Axoloti is a very nice €65 audio board from Belgium, the closest thing I’ve yet seen to an Audio Arduino; lots of easy analog ins and outs for pots and switches, enough...Tags: Axoloti, DIY, music
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Saturday, February 20th, 2016
An open source digital microfludics platform from GaudiLabs, that is available on github: OpenDrop is a new design for an open source digital microfludics platform for research purposes. The device uses recent electro-wetting technology to control small droplets of liquids. Potential applications are lab on a chip devices for automating...Tags: Digital DIY, open source
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
The Energia team announces the availability of version 0101E0017. We wrote about it previously: A new version of Energia has been released. This version fixes alot of bugs from the previous version and also adds support for the following: Support for three new boards have been added added: - CC2650 based...Tags: Energia
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Monday, January 4th, 2016
Cemetechian MateoConLechuga and his team Jacobly, Adriweb, Lionel Debroux, Vogtinator have been working on a portable and open source TI-84 Plus CE/TI-83 Premium CE emulator - CEmu , that is available on Github: Features Portable emulation core written in C Decent emulation accuracy yielding the ability to boot all of TI’s...Tags: CE emulator
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Thursday, December 17th, 2015
Alper Yazar has posted an update on his open source isoUSBRS422 project we covered previously: As I said, basically it is an USB ↔ RS-422/RS-485 converter board. It can be used to communicate devices with RS-422/RS-485 interface by using a USB port of PC. Also, ground of USB port is...Tags: DirtyPCB, isousbrs422, RS-422, RS-485
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
Ken Boak has been working on an open source micro-solar inverter project: We wanted to make a design that uses readily obtainable N-type FETS and an Arduino (more strictly a ATmega328P-PU on a breadboard) to generate the PWM signals and provide simple circuit protection, and load sensing. With the PWM signals generated...Tags: Arduino, FETs, solar inverter
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015
Seeed Studio has announced that RePhone, an open source and modular phone kit is now being offered on Kickstarter! With Rephone you can: 1.Create your own phone in minutes with the slim MODULES, accessible SOFTWARE, and customizable Phone Enclosures. 2.Hack anything around you, giving inanimate objects the power of cellular...Tags: Kickstarter, kits, modular phone
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Friday, September 18th, 2015
Here’s an interesting open source project on Kickstarter the magical robotic arm, Dobot: Designed for DESKTOP. Arduino-powered, 4-axis parallel-mechanism robot arm with High Quality. For makers, educators, and everyone! We are six engineers who built a 4-axis high accuracy, high repeat precision, stepper motor, Arduino-based, desktop robotic arm called Dobot. You...Tags: Arduino, Kickstarter, robotic arm
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
kevinhub88 writes: This post describes Mesa-Video, a low cost, low power, small size and fully Open Source Hardware and Software solution for providing 800×600 digital video for Arduino ( and other ) microcontrollers. Mesa-Video makes it quick and easy to display text and 24bit color graphics from any MCU using...Tags: Arduino, ARM, FPGA, RaspberryPi
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Thursday, August 13th, 2015
Rich Olson writes: ChainringGen is an OpenSCAD script I wrote that can generate a bike chainring with any specifications you like. You can download ChainringGen here. You can control parameters like bolt-circle-diameter (BCD), number of bolt holes, number of teeth and other stuff. I primarily created ChainringGen because I thought...Tags: OpenSCAD
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