Accidents happen - but the awesome quotes you all sent in for Week 15 of the Caption CERN Contest were no accident. A huge thank you for our biggest week yet! The scientists in this weeks image are definitely cleaning up after some type of nasty accident....
A lot has happened in the last month. I've been working nonstop on getting everything finished up and ready for the desert -- which is in a few short weeks (!!!) -- and of course we're running into some last minute problems.---------- more ----------New...
Oh yeah, forgot to mention PCB selection from yesterday. I originally ordered 10 PCBs from two different board houses.First supplier:Quality was "meh"The silkscreen wasn't sharpThe soldermask was sloppy and dithered on the edges due to a rotational misalignment...
Where the hell did March go? Another really big month of work, though much of it has been focussed on the hardware side of things so the firmware update this month is a little lighter than normal (Though still a very worthwhile update). The v0.3.3 board...
Project currently sits in plastic and 7in screen trim. Little on the hefty side but still packs a good punch. May switch back to the 5in if i can make the battery fit right
Last week was all about measuring emissions. Standards for acceptable emissions levels are set by the state of California, so I decided to see if I could meet the same standard, using the CA-certified test centers. This program is called, "SMOG CHECK"....
So, I'm finally coming off of the high of winning the Twilio sponsorship prize of the all expenses paid round trip flight to Twilio's Signal Conference out in San Francisco, and I'm now getting slammed with the sobering reality.Yes, it's great that the...
I got back from the Twilio Signal Conference in San Francisco, and it was a blast! The week before the Signal Conference, I was running around like a mad man getting the rest of the components I needed for version 2 of the device. And they all came...
So, now that the proof of concept worked, the next step was to make it wearable. After all, I wanted to run with this thing. So, I picked up some Adafruit Lilypads, (pre-flora)Adafruit FloraAnd a whole bunch of sewable electronics, like sewable LED's...
So now we get into the meat of the tech. The good stuff. The Biomedical Engineering coke. It's where the silicon meets the carbon road, where synthetic "life" meets organic "life."The blending of biology and physics was what got me into biomedical engineering...
I completed most of the extruder today, I simply need a 5/8 spade bit to finish it. Will complete tommorow, Still working on completing the first 3d printable end connector prototype in design spark mechanical. Picture is up.My previous connectors were...
So following on from my previous post about switches at https://hackaday.io/project/4857-commercial-home-automation/log/16130-switches-are-simple-right let's talk about Passive Infra Red (PIR) sensors.---------- more ---------- Loxone Presence Sensor...
So you've used up your eight digital outputs on lighting circuits but you've got another two to add, what do you do now?!---------- more ---------- Options There are a number of different routes to solving this problem that I can think of, there are...
I jumped on it. The nice Guy had the 2000, an FX-1800 & FX-580, gave me all 3 for $50. The Quadro 2000 happens to have audio, so I ditched the FX-3800 and the USB-SPDIF complicated hokey workaround. It works flawlessly in the Win7 VM. All I had to do...
I²C is great.When it works.I've been doing a lot of work on the controller-module communication—and, while doing so, I've learned a lot.The Raspberry Pi I²C implementation would be a lot better if it had support for clock stretching.(I probably...