If you’re dealing with a chronic illness, the ability to continuously monitor your symptoms is indispensable, helping you gain valuable insights into what makes your body tick – or, rather, mis-tick. However, for many illnesses, you need specialized equipment to monitor them, and it tends to be that you can only visit your doctor every […]
URINE FLOW MEASUREMENT MADE ACCESSIBLE WITH UROFLOW Continue Reading
Arduino have released the latest version of their Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Version 2.0 and it is a big step up from the previous release, boasting plenty of new features to help you to develop your code more easily. As the de-facto way for beginners to get into programming hardware, more experienced users have sometimes complained about
ARDUINO IDE 2.0 IS HERE Continue Reading
Having a 3D printer or a CNC machine available for projects is almost like magic. Designing parts in software and having them appear on the workbench is definitely a luxury. But for a lot of us, these tools aren’t easily available and projects that use them can be out-of-reach. That’s why one of the major
ROBOTIC PLATFORM IS OPEN SOURCED AND USER FRIENDLY Continue Reading
The PCB business card has long been a way for the aspiring electronics engineer to set themself apart from their peers. Handing out a card that is also a two player game is a great way to secure a couple minutes of a recruiter’s time, so [Ryan Chan] designed a business card that, in addition to
MINIMAL TIC TAC TOE BUSINESS CARD Continue Reading
When [Stephen Cass] found himself with a broken Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 portable computer, the simplest solution was to buy another broken one and make one working computer from two non-working computers. However, this left him with a dilemma — what to do with the (now even more) broken one left over? Naturally, he did
TRS-80 MODEL 100 GETS ARDUINO HEART TRANSPLANT Continue Reading
You don’t have two ears by accident. [Stoppi] has a great post about this, along with a video you can see below. (The text is in German, but that’s what translation is for.) The point to having two ears is that you receive audio information from slightly different angles and distances in each ear and your
BINAURAL HEARING MODELED WITH AN ARDUINO Continue Reading
If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the years, it’s that if it’s got a silicon chip inside, it could be carrying a virus. Research by one group focused on hiding a trojan inside an AVR Arduino bootloader, proving even our little hobbyist microcontrollers aren’t safe. The specific aim of the research was to hide a
TROJANS CAN LURK INSIDE AVR BOOTLOADERS Continue Reading
[Noteolvides] creates the CubeTouch, a cube made of six PCBs soldered together that creates a functional and interactive piece of art through its inlaid LEDs and capacitive touch sensors. The device itself is connected through a USB-C connector that powers the device and allows it to send custom keyboard shortcuts, depending on which face is touched.
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS AT THE TOUCH OF A PLANETARY CUBE Continue Reading
Arduinos have been the microcontroller platform of choice for nearly two decades now, essentially abstracting away a lot of the setup and lower-level functions of small microcontrollers in favor of sensible IDEs and ease-of-use. This has opened up affordable microcontrollers to people who might not be willing to spend hours or days buried in datasheets,
THE INNER MACHINATIONS OF THE ARDUINO ARE AN ENIGMA Continue Reading
A common trope in bank heist B-movies is someone effortlessly bypassing a safe’s combination lock. Typically, the hero or villain will turn the dial while listening to the internal machinery, then deduce the combination based on sounds made by the lock. In real life, high-quality combination locks are not vulnerable to such simple attacks, but
ROBOT OPENS MASTER COMBINATION LOCKS IN LESS THAN A MINUTE Continue Reading
