Coil winders are a popular project because doing the deed manually can be an incredibly tedious and time consuming task. After building one such rig, [Pisces Printing] wanted to find even further time savings, and thus designed an improved, faster version. At it’s heart, it’s a straightforward design, using a linear rail and a leadscrew driven […]
For all that modern washers and dryers do, they don’t let you know when they’re finished. Or they do, but it’s only a short victory song that plays once and can be easy to miss. What most of us need is a gentle reminder that there’s damp laundry festering in the washer, or fresh laundry
The arduino-cli tool just got some new exciting features with the release of 0.11.0: Command-line completion External programmer support Internationalization and localization support (i18n) Command-line completion Finally, the autocompletion feature has landed! With this functionality, the program automatically fills in partially typed commands by pressing the tab key. For example, with this update, you can type arduino-cli bo: And,
The Arduino CLI just got some new exciting features Continue Reading
Spare a moment’s pity for the process engineer, whose job it is to keep industrial automation running no matter what. These poor souls seem to be forever on call, fielding panicked requests to come to the factory floor whenever the line goes down. Day or night, weekends, vacations, whatever — when it breaks, the process
SIMPLE CIRCUIT KEEPS PROCESS CONTROL LOOPS IN TUNE Continue Reading
In the days before every piece of equipment was an internet-connected box with an OLED display, engineers had to be a bit more creative with how they chose to communicate information to the user. Indicator lights, analog meters, and even Nixie tubes are just a few of the many methods employed, and are still in
NOBLE GRAPHS: DISPLAYING DATA WITH NEON LIKE ITS 1972 Continue Reading
Sometimes you find things you have not even been looking for… A chaotic oscillator is an electronic circuit that can exhibit “chaotic“, nonperiodic behavior. A commonly cited example is Chua’s circuit, but there are many others. I always regarded these as carefully designed, rather academic, examples. So I was a bit surprised to observe apparently chaotic behavior
BUILDING A CHAOTIC OSCILLATOR FROM COMMON COMPONENTS Continue Reading
Ultra-small Size/Intel J4115 Processor/6GB RAM/128GB ROM/4K Video Output/Ultra-silence Cooling Fan Due to its super compact size, Larkbox is fantastic for a desk where space is scarce. What’s more, it can be taken anywhere in your bag, enabling you to work anywhere without the need to switch devices. To make this even easier, we made Larkbox
Self-driving is currently the Holy Grail in the automotive world, with a number of companies racing to build general-purpose autonomous vehicles that can get from point A to point B with no user input. While no one has brought one to market yet, at least one has promised this feature and had customers pay for
What could be better than a Halloween decoration? Something more perennial, or even something that could also be found in a classroom or lab. Something like [Markus Bindhammer]’s spooky muscle-brain interface. It was inspired by a series called “Tales From the Loop” in which a character’s muscle electrical activity is measured in preparation to adjust his
2023 HALLOWEEN HACKFEST: A SPOOKY MUSCLE-BRAIN INTERFACE Continue Reading
If you snore, you’ll probably find out about it from someone. An elbow to the ribs courtesy of your sleepless bedmate, the kids making fun of you at breakfast, or even the lady downstairs calling the cops might give you the clear sign that you rattle the rafters, and that it’s time to do something
AI-POWERED SNORE DETECTOR SHAKES THE PILLOW SO YOU WON’T Continue Reading
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