When it comes to computers, it seems like the only thing that matters is speed. The more the better, in general, and the same applies to peripherals. We want the fastest network adapters, the fastest video card, and the fastest printer. So why in the world would anyone intentionally build a really slow inkjet printer? For […]
NO NEED FOR SPEED WITH THIS ARDUINO-BASED INKJET PRINTER Continue Reading
Childlike imagination is a wonderful thing. The ability to give life to inanimate objects and to pretend how they’re living their own life is precious, and not for nothing a successful story line in many movies. With the harsh facts or adulthood and reality coming for all of us eventually, it’s nice to see when
ARDUINO MUSIC BOX TURNS STUFFED ANIMAL INTO TV PERSONALITY Continue Reading
Those of us who to textile work may own a sewing machine and even if we’re really into it and have the funds, an overlocker. But there’s another machine in that field that few of us will have, and that’s a knitting machine. These machines have a sliding carriage over a long array of needles,
KNITTING MACHINE REBUILD TAKES IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL Continue Reading
There are a surprising wealth of parts inside of old laptops that can be easily scavenged, but often these proprietary tidbits of electronics will need a substantial amount of work to make them useful again. Obviously things such as hard drives and memory can easily be used again, but it’s also possible to get things
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A team led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) physicists Alexander Holleitner and Reinhard Kienberger has found success for the first time in generating ultrashort electric pulses on a chip. They made this possible by using asymmetric metal antennas only a few nanometers in dimension, then running the signals a few millimeters above the
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In this post, we will talk about Retro-LED-Strip-Audio-Visualizer: As a musician and electrical engineering student, I love any project that intersects these two fields. I’ve seen some DIY audio visualizers (here, here, here, and here), but each had missed at least one of the two goals I established for myself: professional build quality and a
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One thing technology has taught us in the last few years, is the so-called powerful devices of yesterday, will not match the devices of today or tomorrow and this is something that is transcending in the hardware industry. Maker’s board have seen a drastic improvement ever since the first Arduino and the Rasberry Pi Single
UDOO BOLT, A Supercomputer with twice the Power of a MacBook Pro 13 Continue Reading
In this post, we will teach you how to create Electronic Sudoku Game: Calling all you Sudoku addicts. Play, Create and Solve Sudoku puzzles using this easy to build Arduino based project. Simple to use with a touch screen and stylus the unit comes preloaded with Sudoku puzzles to play, a help feature to highlight
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Particle sensors could be cheap and easy to use. Disadvantage of lowest cost PM sensors is lack of “calibration”. The best method to measure particle content dispensed in the air is to collect the air sample and analyse it off-line in the laboratory with proper equipment (not cheap at all). Optical particle counting sensors use
Particle sensor with LoRa Continue Reading
The first MintBox Mini was released in 2015 in partnership between Compulab and the Linux Mint team. Since then, there has been an advancement in the software and the hardware that powered the first iteration. In March 2018, Compulab has continued with the Linux Mini Project releasing a replacement for the AMD A10 based MintBox Mini
MintBox Mini 2 comes with more power and it is 50% faster than its predecessor. Continue Reading
