The gearbox is composed of gears, transmission shafts, bearings and box structures. Because the box structure is sealed, it is generally not easy to fail. The failure mainly occurs in the gears, transmission shafts and bearings. Generally, the failure...
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...
Please join us on Open Hardware Summit eve for a delightful mix of #BringAHack and open house!When: Thursday, October 6th. 6 PM to Midnight.Where: 311 B Ave, Lake Oswego, OR 97034Refreshments will be served. No problem if you won’t be able to bring a...
Please join us tomorrow night on Open Hardware Summit eve for a delightful mix of #BringAHack and open house!When: Thursday, October 6th. 6 PM to Midnight.Where: 311 B Ave, Lake Oswego, OR 97034Refreshments will be served. No problem if you won’t be...
Billed as an upgradable smartphone-controller car chassis kit, the Totem 2WD Car Kit does exactly what it says; it is a small kit featuring a Bluetooth-compatible board and a companion app to control it. Despite its size the kit comes with everything...
Embroidery is a fun thing to do for some people. We can create beautiful designs either on our clothes, towels, napkins, and many more. In the old days, we did this handcraft manually with our hands and some tools. That way certainly will take time to...
I was talking with @Dr. Cockroach this morning and we managed to get onto the subject of flight. Cardboard of course was mentioned, and there might be a secretive project in the works... Muahahah! Enough about that though, he reminded me of the paper...
Arduino is a fantastic platform for anyone who wants to get started with programming and electronics. With so many different boards available, it can be difficult to know which one to choose. In this post, we’ll explore the different types of Arduino...
Part Two > Something I've been meaning to do for a while, creating a new version of my lighting controller to work with my home server and cut out external dependencies. v1 - ATMEGA328P (Uno) + Ethernet + Android/TaskerWorks, but fairly unreliable...
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...
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...
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.. There’s no fun like hand-solder those cute little SMD packages with tiny pads that remain completely hidden, isn’t it? LGA, BGA, QFN, BFN, music to the ears of those who have the strange fetish of actually trying to solder by hand packages...
One of the popular chip formats in the 70's and 80's were the ubiquitous EPROMs (Electrically Programmable Read Only Memories). They had very good memory density at the time and were accessible technology for hackers and OEMs alike. They had the advantage...
Garmin Vivoactive 1 teardown I’ve had this Garmin Vivoactive for over 6 years now and upgraded a couple of years ago to the Garmin Forerunner 45 for running and swimming. The old Vivoactive used to have the stamina of a rabbit in bed (it had a great...