For a while now I've wanted to support many robots in Evil Overlord. To do this I need two things: (1) a way to select robots on the screen and (2) a context sensitive menu for each selected robot. I've had #2 for a while now. Today I got #1 working.Multi-tool...
I've talked a bit about the performance I want, need, and expect to have out of D-DAQ. I've mentioned a long lost digital gauge with no known good video footage for people to have a benchmark of. There is also a "high end" gauge setup a friend of mine...
I ended up using 2 boards, because I ended up making changes to the optical gate circuits after I had sent off for the main board. Good news is that it was easy to just make a slave board for that portion of the circuit.I made a few mistakes when...
TL;DR: back to the drawing board. Or maybe it's time to try for a hover test, and tell thermal issues to go to hell?I ran seven tests this evening. Main changes since yesterday:Increased the motor pwm signal to 110 degrees. I wanted to put some heat...
The Medicycle build is progressing at lightning speed, The frame is mostly complete and John has almost completed the electronics required to make the unicycle balance, the instrument panel has even been 3d printed. This is not the first machine...
MEDICAL PACKA “MediCycle” needs a medical pack obviously…………………….Cooking Hacks (http://www.cooking-hacks.com) produce a biometric shield for Arduino and Raspberry Pi: the e-Health Sensor Platform V2.0.The e-Health Sensor Shield V2.0 allows...
Using Derek Molly's video (and some google searches and tweaking) I was finally able to get QTCreator running in an Ubuntu VM and can cross-compile and deploy to the BBB.I would document everything I did, but to be honest, I'm not sure what all I had...
So, this is the first time I was able to achieve a red-eye through an eyepiece! TADA!That bright blob is strong as hell - it's the reflection off eyepiece's lens' surfaces. But at the very least, the effect is there - it's in infrared, behind the eyepiece,...
I’ve been out of the maker game for a while but it seems that life is affording me some minute amount of time once again to do one of the things I love best – making useless stuff for no good reason but to have fun and just because I can. I’m hopeful...
This blog post is going to be a bit scattered. At this moment, I have a lot of projects at the 80% or a little more done, but nothing complete finished. I have been putting off any sort of update because I've been waiting to at least finish one or two...
I finished up that last 20% on a few of my projects the last few days. The solder paste dispenser and reflow oven are finished. Neither is particularly polished, but both work good enough. The reflow oven is really rough around the edges, and all around...
Not a whole lot to report yet. I've been working integrating a real time clock (RTCC) to my project, and optimizing my code that drives the LCD display. But one interesting thing did happen ... I got interviewed. Elecia White, one of the Hackaday Prize...
So far I have an nrf51822 cheapy module. It was about £5 on ebay and has two lots of 18 anoying 1.27mm spaced DIL pins. I've read about people programming these with mbed generated code (https://mbed.org/forum/platform-39-Nordic-nRF51822-community/topic/4982/)...
As with every great idea, someone had it long before you... However, that just let's you work harder to enhance those ideas and to twist and tweak them until you finally have something that is unique and outperforms everything else that's out there....
I am now waiting on the USPTO to write me back and tell me what I screwed up.But in all seriousness... it's a tremendous relief to be at this point.How big a relief?I started designing r1 about 13 months ago, and received the populated main-boards in...