I wrapped up the second Phonetroller prototype this past weekend, just as a massive April snowstorm hit Minneapolis: above, 14" of snow by Saturday evening with another 5" or so to come. Yes, we almost got half a meter of snow. In mid-fucking-April.Getting...
Simultaneously designing top-down and bottom-up until your designs meet in the middle to produce a functional result. →InsertImageThat sounds like a horrible idea.→InsertImageFor this project, this was the only design strategy that made sense,...
Hackaday and Adafruit have joined forces to present the Raspberry Pi Zero Contest. A great contest is nothing without entries though. This is where the Hackaday.io community is proving once again that they’re the best in the world. The contest is less...
One of the best ways to teach electronics and programming is with hands-on learning. Get the concepts off the computer screen and out into the real world. Students of all ages have been learning with robots for decades. Many older Hackaday readers will...
We want to build the best hackerspace we possibly can. If its going to be a HackADay official space then it really needs to be awesome. So, what goes into a great hackerspace?The PhilosophyThere seem to be a variety of styles of hackerspace. From the...
So last week we had Mike and Mathieu from HackADay in the office to discuss the plans for the year, while they were here we decided to go visit a few potential spaces in which to start the HackASpace. We viewed 3 spaces, all of which were around...
While I was waiting on my mini-mill to arrive I decided to do some concept design in (then Google) Sketchup. I was constrained by only having 8 servos on hand and unwilling to buy more with a move in the near future.Overall design concept.Originally...
To get rig of those ugly wires and equipments hanging on the ceiling of my living room, I'm preparing a cover that will also work as a lamp for the pool table. I made this box with a 1mm sheet of aluminum. It's just a long metal rectangle, bended...
The new boards arrived, assembled one, and found there was a track error!, at least this one was minor, so a bit of cut/reroute solved it, and it now works as intended.It has new features, like jumpers for "quick" calibration (you still need a tester...
I got a piece of aluminum from a friend for the next part of the adapter, this was an lid from an old plasma etcher. Its a piece aluminum about 14x14 and 1.25" thick. Pretty perfect.I decided to leave it square, no reason to make it circular in the greater...
Before you get too excited, that first cut was just in dense cardboard, not the real thing. But we'll get to that shortly.As I mentioned before, I really needed a new z-axis design, so I went to the place where I can really concentrate and piece things...
I'm super busy so bear with me. Gulf Coast MakerCon is in less than two weeks, our makerspace soft opening is a week later and I'm doing the Galileo Hacks project with Make, so my dance card is full. I've made a lot of progress on the Lunettic, but I...
I choose to do the packs, since it is all useful bits and pieces and no matter how many of those darn pack of nuts, bolts screws, etc i buy from HF etc i never have the right ones. These quantities are for individual part quantities, and not boxes....
So, I been wrestling for quite a while with the pwm genorator trying to get rid of little glitches and bounces and ringing that came up during final assembly. The final straw was a 40mv, 5Mhz ring that caused the pwm comparitor to output a ring that...
So, first entry.I normally write formal reports or academic papers, which are really dry and cannot contain pronouns (no really). Ahem: Under normal circumstances, the authors avoid the use of pronouns for stylistic reasons. Here I don't have to...