If you haven't read "The Signal and the Noise" by Nate Silver, I would highly suggest doing so. In Chapter 11 of his book entitled "If You Can't Beat 'Em...", he discusses the futility of beating the stock market in the long run. To emphasize his point,...
Project choices and the mission As stated in the summary, my goal is to provide an open solution to the bipedal walking problem, in order to give others a starting point and source of inspiration. This includes hardware designs, drawings, assembly plans,...
A clock built with eight authentic soviet vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) tubes, a custom designed circuit board, firmware and 3d-printed case It is an evolution of Phalanx. Many of the firmware improvements made for Ameise also trickled down to Phalanx...
IntroductionBlue Basic is a heavily modified port of the TinyBasic interpreter developed to run on the Texas Instruments CC2540 and CC2541 Bluetooth LE chips (BLE) (see http://www.ti.com/product/CC2540 and http://www.ti.com/product/CC2541).MotivationIf...
Do you have to interact with your devices from the Internet? or from a mobile phone? Tired of building web servers in small microcontrollers only for switching some relays, leds, or controlling a servo? Tired of using platforms where you need to build...
What if I told you it was possible to SAFELY use ANY SmartPhone as a robot brain? On any smartphone with a browser, load a freely hosted github.com webpage with Javascript that blinks areas on the screen to send motor commands to an e.g. Arduino....
INTRODUCTION Before you start, read this post to see how to make a Stick Shift Monster Truck with, and this post to see how to make a home automation system. Both projects feature PulseRain M10 as the core module board. ==================================================================...
3-11-2024 See these two 2011 Liliputing and TechCrunch articles, which were partly the inspiration for this project: https://liliputing.com/pixel-qi-suggests-low-power-tablets-could-be-powered-by-1w-solar-panels/(6-3-11) https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/04/first-solar-powered-laptop/ (6-4-11)...
You can find the schematic ready to edit and go on EasyEDA here. Source code for the Arduino sketch is attached and below. Note that it uses the TimerOne library to provide higher-resolution Timer1 frequency control for the Pulse Width Modulation to...
The “Crivit Sports” wrist watch HRM (Heart Rate Monitor)This is a wrist watch that can also display the heart rate BPM (Beats Per Minute)..The complete specs and the user manual can be found at http://www.lidl-service.com/cps/rde/xchg/SID-648946E8-5F850FDD/lsp/hs.xsl/product.html?id=47039228.The...
Introduction The name of DIM-110 came from the Digital Inspection Microscope and the 110 is the work size of the X-Y axes so it is 110mm. I was into microscope for years now and always wanted a good microscope, but due to the high price and lack of functionality...
[full walk through video coming soon] HACKING THE B20 FITNESS TRACKER'S nRF52832 ARM CORTEX MCU AND ACCESSING ADS1292 BIOIMPEDENCE DATA Hacking the fitness tracker is very simple, all you have to do is solder wires to four (V+, GND, clock, data) big...
I want to try, at least partially, to automate the preparation of food on a charcoal grill. When the dish begins burning we pour it with water or beer. Why not replace the human with a pump and a handful of electronic components? Yes, it’s about getting...
CTF LeaderboardClick here for the leaderboardIf you don't appear, there's not a problem, you either....1) Haven't been near a proxy node at the conference yet2) Haven't figured out the first step to appearing on the leaderboard...BADGE HARDWARE SPECS...
Some history At the origin of the horizontal blade flip technology clock, patented in 1958 by Solari & C, sits the "Cifra 5". This clock was the first of a family of industrial timepieces developed from a technology studied by Remigio Solari, who revolutionized...