Some Interesting Stuff:Blue Sea Systems has some inexpensive, 80-volt DC fuse products.Read for perspective on American Culture (Too Many Experts Protecting Interests, Not Looking For A Way To Make Solar Energy Affordable)Images of Conformal Building...
RX'd 975 watts solar panels today. Paid $1/watt including shipping for these. Fingerprints in corners from handling before encapsulating resin was fully dry, seems to be the blemish. These are new high efficiency SUN product. I will use a PWM controller,...
As part of the recurring competition on hackaday I managed to score some winnings!Sadly Mr Postman had other ideas than delivering my items when arrived so that's why I'm late to the game...This is my first Teensy board so after a quick Google-session...
Circulate glycol around a firebox, heating the glycol like an on-demand water-heater. Am thinking to use an existing wood-stove, suited to wrap 3/8 copper tubing around the cylindrical (barrel type) firebox. Box is made of heavy 1/2 inch thick, 24-inch...
So I finished my college exam (yes one...............marketing...................) a few weeks ago, I think I'm fairly confident I passed, the plans for summer however anyways is portfolio work and projects, because I have work placement during second...
Western Digital MyBookWorld 1TB Network DriveIt came to me new and it has been mostly on for about nine years, storing hundreds of gigabytes in backups without any data loss, and surviving many moves (Awesome!)It has a personal problem trying to hide...
Apply Trigonometry to determine point to point length of the rear brace, and its point of intersection with the main inclined panel support. Result is a support surface for solar panels at desired inclination. Screws fasten the panels to wood above and...
I lost all the images here! Links and uploads! :( slowly rebuilding... Project Ideas... In order of most-recently-listed, first (read from the bottom-up):12-5-18: YES! 10-24-18: https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/av-synth-is-psychedelic-analog-mayhem/...
I engaged in some serious whiteboard tangenting last night on the subject of artificial muscles. Keep reading if you're bored as hell; this is a long-winded post.I also took a bunch of close-up pictures, most of which ended up pretty blurry. My D40 never...
On my job I use some equipment that is calibrated to the "RF Engineer" standard of 0 dB equals one milliwatt in 50 ohms. But other gear is calibrated to the CATV standard of 0 dB equals 1 milliVOLT in 75 ohms.I could never remember how to get back and...
Nowadays most amputees express their disappointment for: 1) the large cost of buying and maintaining a prosthesis, 2) the increased weight of the device and 3) the difficulties they face with repairs [1]. Moreover the fear of damaging the prosthesis...
Time for another Electronics Goldmine analysis!2x Box of ICs (>50)19135; $10.00 ($2.99 when I bought them.)---------- more ----------2x CD4002CN - Dual 4-input NOR Gate1x CD4020BCN - 14 bit up counter/divider1x CD4034BE - 8 bit ser/par to ser/par shift...
[Just a draft - please ignore for now]We have all seen it. TIME_WAIT sockets piling up and all hell breaks loose. This is an attempt to document all there is to know about this, so that we can learn how to address the issue better and move on with our...