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PRECISION MOTOR CONTROL FOR ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION

PRECISION MOTOR CONTROL FOR ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION

The EVALKIT-ROBOT-1  is a plug-and-play solution aimed to help users easily approach the world of precise positioning and high-end motion in servo drives and robotics. A maxon 100-Watt BLDC motor with built-on 1024-pulse incremental encoder is included in the kit, embodying the company’s expertise in magnetic design in motors that ensures smoothness and balance to allow fine […]

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BANGLE.JS THE HACKABLE SMART WATCH

BANGLE.JS: THE HACKABLE SMART WATCH

While Python currently sits atop the throne of the most popular programming language in the world, languages like javascript have been creeping around the throne with different frameworks and APIs that have taken the language beyond use of web development. This was evident in Espruino as it opened up the doors to the use of javascript in programming microcontrollers. The success

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AN INTERESTING CIRCULAR STEWART PLATFORM

AN INTERESTING CIRCULAR STEWART PLATFORM

Stewart platforms are pretty neat, and not seen in the wild all that often, perhaps because there aren’t a vast number of hacker-friendly applications that need quite this many degrees of freedom within such a restricted movement range. Anyway, here’s an interesting implementation from the the curiously named [Circular-Base-Stewart-Platform] YouTube channel (no, we can’t find

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3D PRINT A COLOUR TV

3D PRINT A COLOUR TV

The oldest form of television used a spinning disk with a progression of holes — a Nipkow disk — to slice the image into lines for display. They’re surprisingly simple machines and capable of unexpectedly high-quality images despite their relatively low resolution. Even better, in an age of microcontrollers and bright LEDs, making one that

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NXP LAUNCHES THE GIGAHERTZ MICROCONTROLLER ERA

NXP LAUNCHES THE GIGAHERTZ MICROCONTROLLER ERA

NXP Semiconductors has announced the industry’s first crossover MCU, i.MX RT1170 28nm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) microcontroller unit (MCU), which is a power-efficient design with real-time functionality, and MCU usability at an affordable price. It clocks its primary Arm Cortex-M7 processing core at up to 1GHz while packing a secondary Cortex-M4 core running at 400MHz. Geoff Lees, senior vice president

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MAKING WINDSHIELD WIPERS ROCK TO THE BEAT

MAKING WINDSHIELD WIPERS ROCK TO THE BEAT

When you’re driving around, you might occasionally notice your indicators or windscreen wipers sync up fortuitously with the music. [Cranktown City] wanted to ensure his wipers would always match the beat, however, and set about making it so.  After disassembling the wiper motor, The original controller PCB is ripped up, used solely for its home position contacts that

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