Although a smart kitchen will cook food quickly and effortlessly, a wise kitchen is more resilient. Rather than enabling the optimal afternoon snack, a wise kitchen helps cook food quietly and effectively. It can consult the diners when the menu...
It's an exciting time for my smart watch project! My hardware is assembled and fully functional, test software is working and looking far slicker and more professional than I could have ever thought, and the companion app for android is almost complete....
On another of this half sleep ideas one night I was playing with one of this 2.7" small epapers with touch interface and I though, why not to make a simple digital switch?It's made by 2 PCBs. One provides 3.3DC converted from Mains power and receives...
The ultra low power reconfigurable digital logic in YDrip makes it possible to log more than just water usage. The design is great for any application that needs to do simple logic like counting, leak detection or more. Smart meter reading is one of...
Well, this project has been installed for several months now and I wanted to give an update. It's been an overwhelming success, but I have had couple issues and some lessons learned along the way, so here they are:One of my original requirements was...
This is a follow up post to Stick Shift Lego Monster Truck=========================Last Month Hackaday had a post for "Converting a Robotic Motor For Lego Blocks", and I happen to be building a Lego Monster Truck and I need a good way to power steering...
If the aerial trick works on one point of light, it'll work on many, right? If one point is a pixel, let's show a screen!That was a pretty easy leap. Problem was, it didn't work so great. LCD screens are roughly one hundred billion...
When you were a kid, did you ever see one of those 100-in-1 electronic kits? These were a board with a bunch of parts on them and some kind of solderless terminal. If you hooked wires up one way it was a car alarm. If you hooked it up another way it...
This is my pet project within the larger project. The goal is to have the house crest of each HP house hanging on a wall. When one of them is blasted with IR, the smart lights on either side of the wall will change to the house colors of that house....
I have had plenty of time to think about my antenna tracker and no time to work on it. This has allowed me to re-invent the smart antenna tracker for the better. I plan to use a brushless design much like the go-pro gimbals used for FPV. I will create...
Conventional smart styli are self-contained. They all have a controller to detect the applied pressure and the XY location of the pen on the touch screen. Through Bluetooth, this information is sent to the iPad and to be used in an app. This 100%...
Hi guys,This project has been very inactive in the past few years, but fear not! My journey in smart watch electronics has been ongoing throughout the past 3 years. Over the past few years I have been developing a smart watch designed for anxiety...
(continued at Debouncing in reality)The clock needs buttons to set the time / inject clock pulses for the different counters. Just use push buttons then. But they have naughty bounces...My past attempts at making a debouncing circuit failed. But I just...