Interactive Disk SpinThe Interactive Disk Spin was born one fateful night when Paul took the cover off an old hard drive, started compulsively spinning the shiny platters with his finger, and then wondered "how fast am I really making it go?" Two late-night...
This was a project a few months in the making. I originally started it while I was still at SpaceX but really got to focus on it right before burning man 2013. I really wanted an 8 ft long carbon fiber staff with a ton of full bright white capable RGB...
Two weeks ago, I set off to a business trip to Germany, which is also my home country. I always try to have a few days of vacation included in such a trip in order to be able to visit my family. And what does a father with his son living in another country...
Here's a video of the project:Here is a diagram of the main components:The system is comprised by a computer, a webcam and a video projector. The camera is placed on the ceiling, above the pool table. It's very important that the camera is positioned...
HydraBus v1.0 Rev1.5 In Stock on DigiKey:https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/benjamin-vernoux/hydrabus-v1/15652912 Features of the HydraBus board: Very small board only 60mm x 37mm size (extensible with shield which can be connected on top or...
A bendulum is topped with a weight. If you give the top a push, it sways back and forth periodically. The motion is much like a pendulum, except that instead of swinging rigidly from a pivot and moving the most at the bottom, the bendulum’s stem flexes...
I've done this project twice. The first keyboard completely died shortly after I made my spare. Unfortunately the new one's USB hub is less reliable. The keyboard doesn't get activated soon enough to send keypresses during booting... I've been...
IntroductionVaporization is done by off-the-shelf ultrasonic atomizers, either really cheap ones (the black ones in the picture below, 2.50 $ each) or some more rigid ones (the silver one, a Fogstar 300, 290 € each), air is moved by an array of...
For my GPSDO project I’ve opted for a Piezo 2940210 VCOCXO at 10 Mhz. There is a dearth of information on this particular module available online.(A notation notation: I utilize “E” notation to indicate orders of magnitude; thus 1.5E-6...
The battery in my Lenovo laptop were slowly losing part of it's capacity. The remaining capacity was 69% (good score after 2,5 years) but I need the really long battery time while travelling. The battery statistics according to Lenovo power utility:So,...
Preview: What the system diagram illustrates is that you can use our prebuilt web app to recognize, monitor, remote control & program your robot. Alternatively, you can build your own app (or use someone else's) that is customized for your application....
For a bimolecular reaction involving two molecules A and B, with concentrations [A] and [B] and a rate constant K, the probability of the reaction occuring (from mass action) will be K[A][B] . Assuming a time step which is short enough to make the probability...
The general approach using DDAs will be to simulate a system of first-order differential equations, which can be nonlinear. Analog computers use operational amplifiers to do mathematical integration. We will use digital summers and registers. For any...
We can use the FPGA to do fast numerical integration to solve differential equation models of neurons. This page describes a couple of neuron models and their solution by DDA techniques. Eugene Izhikevich developed a simple, semiempirical, model of cortical...