At the Maker Faire this year I got lots of questions about soil moisture sensors, which I knew little about. So I started seriously researching the subject. I found a few different soil sensors, learned about their principles, and also learned about how to make my own. In this blog post, I will talk about
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The ISS Overhead is an ambient display that glows whenever the International Space Station is flying overhead. It is designed to act as an occasional reminder that there are people living and working in space! This project should take you somewhere between 2 hours to an afternoon to complete. It assumes you know how to
In this post I’ll be going over how to cut out solder stencils for both ExpressPCB and EagleCAD designs on a laser cutter. I recently had a need to create some stencils from both of these programs and spent quite a bit of time at the Dallas Makerspace working with their laser cutter to get
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Duinocade is a very small arcade cabinet (14cm / 5,5inch height). The software and parts of the circuit diagram based on the open source handheld Gamebunio, which based on the famous Arduino platform. The Gamebuino and also our Duinocade uses the known Nokia 5110 lcd as screen. At the moment the Gamedunio is an Indiegogo
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In my previous instructable, I described the details of energy monitoring of an off-grid solar system. I have also won the 123D circuits competition for that. You can see this ARDUINO ENERGY METER. Please vote for me….. In solar power systems, the charge controller is the heart of the system which was designed to protect
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What is DSLogic? Most of electronic instruments are designed in professional fashion. They are dedicated, traditional, well functioned, and most importantly, expensive. They are usually only available and affordable to academic and industry. Individuals, however, are not lucky enough to get the best electronic instruments as they want. This is how we are inspired to
DSLogic – Multifunction Instruments For Everyone Continue Reading
As open-source hardware users and makers, we love playing with new chips, boards and tools. And there is one chip which is quite popular these days: the CC3000 WiFi chip from TI. This chip comes with many promises: cheap (around $10), easy to use, low-power … It was featured in many articles around the web,
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Revolutionizing Motor Control Motors are a crucial component for many of your projects if you are someone who enjoys tinkering or creating things. We are used to using Arduino boards to manage them and causing chaos in order to fix a basic issue. Everyone has an idea that needs a motor, however not everyone values
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Arduino is an excellent way to simplify and speed up your microcontroller projects, thanks to its community of developers who have made almost everything look simple. There are lots of Arduino Projects out here for you to try and have fun. Some of your projects might need some sounds action to notify about something or just
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Greetings to all! I have observed that in the previous period, I have received some links to my GPIBUSB adapter project from this forum, so I decided to create a specific thread for it. GPIBUSB Adapter rev3 A couple of years ago, during my last year of college, I was employed at a new university
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