Currently this bad boy has two modes: hit and hold. Hit turns on the heat until the set temperature is hit, then shuts off. Hold tries to hold the temperature at the setpoint.It also has a FTDI USB to UART IC, so it can be loaded with optiboot (after...
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 bought an XMS amplifier from a friend years ago and although it was serving it's purpose I got quite frustrated with having to toggle the loudness feature every time the input was changed. This was the beginning of what has now become my network enabled...
So, where I stand now. I ended up using a Mesa 5i25 PCI card and a 7i76 step/dir control card. The Yaskawa servos have pretty good auto tune so I decided to leave the PID loop up to the servo drives.Speaking of servo drives, that and the servo motors...
I picked up the vacuum system from Portland State two weeks ago from a professor I know. It was too big for the little things they do and by the time it warms up and pumps down there is no time left. So they decided to get rid of this system and build...
In the original configuration, the airswimmer is propelled by the tail fin, which can be flapped left-to-right using the remote. The whole fish can also be tilted up or down by moving the gondola, which holds the battery and receiver, forward and back...
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...
The idea behind this project was for my sons birthday party. He wanted a robot themed party, so I figured this would be the easiest to build. Similar to the commercial claw machines, the idea is to grab a toy and successfully get it transferred over...
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...
[Intro] {Updated 2/25/2016}VisualK-OS collectively refers my custom-built system of lighting devices, intended for use with my band's (Saturn's Iris) live shows. To date, the system consists of: The main control center, Thor and the Flood Bank Array...
To make the claw open and close, a 24V solenoid is used to pull the plunger into the cavity and close the claw via the linkage. There is a return spring that allows for the plunger to be pushed out and open up the claws. this was added as...
Using an old Fairplay Scoreboard LED matrix to display scrolling messages (one of which was also for the kiddos birthday, scrolling "HAPPY BIRTHDAY")A PIC 16F870 was used for the controller. The factory controller was ditched as I was unsure how...
Nakano, K., et.al.(refs below) describe two versions of a small stack machine suitable for implementation on an FPGA and they give the Verilog source code on their web site. The design was ported to the DE2 board and extended to have a richer set of...