While looking for potential designs I stumbled across this little gem; the PiPo X9.They are little Windows/Android dual booting, boxes with a built in 7" touch screen. The x8 version of this (almost identical) is selling on Ebay for ~£80 - I'm definitely...
I have put together a minimal system to test everything would work the way i designed it, and I had a school project that involved doing an experiment. So i decided to test how well the Z80 overclocked against my home PC. I found the results surprising...
I figured it's kinda lame to show up at Maker Faire empty-handed. I thought about costumes, but that didn't really seem to click. I figured I could do some blinky build but didn't know if I had time for that. But when I started thinking about what type...
There are different philosophies of how to approach the sound in music robotics. Some artists don’t use amplification at all and work only with the natural sound. This is somehow the major-league, because it involves a lot of knowledge about acoustic...
I created a physical interface for my home automation. Parsing the information on a display requires lots of focus. If you're at home, it's much easier to look at a physical representation of your house. So this physical interface displays information...
Since this is March -- when most of my university-related StepChanges (deadlines wherby there will be a change in conditions/considerations afterwards) are -- my time utilisaton would probably be seen as >97% if there was a Task Manager for it. Some...
In my latest mechanical design I am using two black Arturia Beatsteps. The size of the Beatsteps causes the overall size of the synth to increase a bit. But this doesn't bother me. Because the Beatsteps have so many buttons and encoders, I am thinking...
I should have my test board for the 2SK3018 transistors back next week, but in the meantime I've been thinking about other changes.In the interest of adding more I/O capabilities, I think I've settled on adding an I2C interface to the Q2. I2C is...
As we stated in a previous log, we have already contracted ACube Systems and the PCB design work has started. This post is a first report about the work in progress in relation to the PCB design. These days, the designer is analyzing the Pericom Switch...
As I wrote in details of this project, programming language that I use here came from my "hobby" game "Robot Warfare 1" that I released in 1998 as shareware - it was used to program robots - something like this: % ================= WSIMPLE.RW1 ==================...
So I managed to finish sorting through all my stuff and packing it away into boxes of related items. That allowed me to get my car back into the garage, although it does not leave me with lots of space to work. Still it is good to have...
I've seen a lot of traffic here lately and for all those following, thank you! I have been researching how to proceed next and have actually realized the answer was staring me in the face all this time. I have already built a viable machine, albeit out...
UPDATE (12-10-15):WARNING: HORRENDOUS MISUNDERSTANDING MAY FOLLOW!Take all bits regarding mW vs. mA with quite a bit of speculation! (new log-entry to follow).----------OldNote:This log has changed quite a bit since its introduction... all additions...
Well one milestone has been completed and that is getting the laser controller board tested. This covers the following;Setup control of the DAC to allow calibration of the control voltage to the iC-HKB laser control ICs. The coarse level current control...
So here is my initial plan for the various carts I hope to build. The workbench would be 32" deep and 64" wide and I would build two 32"x32" cabinets under the table. Each of the other cabinets would only be 26" deep to account for the bulge...