Writing this quick post for @Reinier van der Lee and his #Vinduino, a wine grower's water saving project project.He is starting to use Electric Imp to connect his Vineyard and one of the tasks it tor retrieve ETo data. I recommended Electric Imp because...
We don't really see too many walking robots around us, but everyone knows how they should look like. After all, we've seen a lot of them in the movies, comic books, and computer games. There is a slight problem with that. You see, those robots were conceived...
This are some of my new ideas, which are not completely solved ;-)---------- more ----------Flux Generator (Only a prop with some blinking LEDs ;-)) Biggest Challenge: HousingSmall LED Light Engine - A node which could connect to other nodes and control...
Briefly: 80-wire IDE cables are *great* for high-speed stuff... But the pinout is a bit more difficult than a straight-through 40-wire IDE cable, because the 80-wire cables have shielding (yay!) which is connected to specific pins designated as ground,...
I did really like the idea of #PICTIL. So I did some research on this and on this page I will just summarize ideas. (mostly because all this in a comment would be to much I think). First the idea of using the PIC16F527 which @Yann Guidon / YGDES suggested....
Python Playground (No Starch Press, USA) is the culmination of a few years of playing around with Python, plus 2 years of writing (ouch!).It's a playful romp through Python - 14 projects ranging from drawing spirographs using Turtle and parametric equations,...
When it comes to procrastination, I lost to the repair works at my apartment. I had to patch up a couple of oversized holes left behind under the kitchen sink before I moved in. The new neighbor on the opposite side of the wall is a chain smoker. :(...
I am fascinated by the PiDP-8 and the follow-on PiDP-11 computers.Reading listGNU radio 1GNU radio 2avr makefileAnother simple formulabut I could not copy it to a comment.
Here is the power supply for the upcoming opamp regen. Three things are worth noting. 1. It is not necessary to use separate diode bridges for the positive and negative supplies. One will do, but I saw that after I built the board. 2. The power switch...
As probably a lot of folks here, I developed very slight hoarding disorder, known also as "impulsive midnight aliexpress shopping sessions" over the time I tinker with electronics. I buy stuff that goes into "messy box" and after a time I find out it...
An electronic excise and a table piece made for a themed party. A basic exercise in physical input-output using a servo logic. A breadboard with a servo, joystick, arduino nano, and a usb-to-serial adapter all sitting on a usb charger. A very short arduino...
Few realized it, but the world changed in 1975. Prior to that moment, the balance of human accomplished worked toward bigger systems; controlling things en-mass, as a whole, rather than as discrete units. 1975 is exactly when the tide turned toward breaking...
During a visit to the ham swap meet at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach. It's always on the last Saturday of the month, and until now I haven't been in LA on the last Saturday of the month. Because I went to Sparklecon last week, I was also able...
So the beta for the third entry in the Battlefront franchise has launched on the PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. It will last four days and includes just a handful of weapons, two maps, and two modes. My initial impressions are exceptionally positive, but...