Posted June 21, 2013 by Chris

“As is usually the case there was a reason for the hardware being extremely cheap. The Fujitsu mobo couldn’t handle the Conroe CPU. It was essentially limited to the old Pentium/Celeron D power hogs. D’oh! But wait.. There’s an A2 revision of the board that handles Conroe cores, maybe success is just a bios mod away?”

Posted June 20, 2013 by Chris

“ In this article we will go through the process of building this Arduino Waveform Generator Shield whilst simultaneously reviewing the bugs and features found during the construction and usage. This article will focus mainly on the hardware side of things since the firmware was pre-written for the Arduino.”

Posted June 19, 2013 by Chris

“Most people would just go out and buy a temp / humidity sensor and be done with it….Instead, I decided to build an accurate temp / humidity sensor with a Sensiron SHT11 to read the values, a RBBB Arduino kit to process everything and an Adafruit 128×32 OLED to display the results – all wrapped up in LEGO!”

Posted June 18, 2013 by Chris

“In my spare time I have been working on a tiny two axis CNC machine that will be powerful enough to move a pen around like a plotter. Future versions will be larger and handle more powerful tools, but this is a good start to work out the kinks.”

Posted June 17, 2013 by Chris

“MechBass was the outcome of my Engineering honors project at Victoria University of Wellington in 2012, more info about Engineering at VUW: http://ecs.vuw.ac.nz….Design and Implementation details available for download.”

Posted June 16, 2013 by Chris

“I’ve been working on some new features that allow not only automatic schematic generation, but also complete board layout. I made a little Bluetooth robot to test it out. Or rather, I asked my computer to design one for me.”

Posted June 14, 2013 by Chris

“I decided to build a more modern robot using current technology and parts as the world of robotics has gone through tremendous change in the last 15 years! These notes go over the design thoughts and ideas of this new robot and hopefully serves as a guideline or better yet, inspiration for someone else wanting to do the same. ”

Posted June 13, 2013 by Chris

“Prototyped in Summer of 2010, this sensor weights 125 milligrams, this mass including optics, image sensing, and processing using an ATtiny processor. Details may be found at this post on Embedded Eye. The image sensor is a Centeye Tamalpais chip- two versions are available, with resolutions of 16×16 and 8×8 on a focal plane about 450um wide.”

Posted June 12, 2013 by Chris

“The IR object detection module is quiet easy to make. This circuit below is a low cost / low range object detection module that you can easily make at home using IR sensors. We will use a photodiode and IR LED to make a simple circuit. IR led looks like a regular LED that you usually see in Television Remote controls.”

Posted June 10, 2013 by Chris

“The following is a technique I used while assembling a circuit to be installed where space was very limited. Make sure your circuit design is finalized. Changes will be extremely difficult once the circuit is complete. ”