Raise you’re hand if you’ve ever soldered directly to a battery even though you know better. We’ve all been there. Sometimes we get away with it when we have a small pack and don’t care about longevity. But when [Robert Dunn] needed to build a battery pack out of about 120 Lithium Ion cells, he […]
GORGEOUS BATTERY WELDER HITS THE SPOT Continue Reading
The OLKB-Terminal designed by [Jeff Eberl] doesn’t have a battery, can’t fold up (even if it seems like it could), and is only portable in the sense that you can literally pick it up and move it somewhere else. So arguably it’s not really a cyberdeck per se, but it certainly does look the part. If you
HOME AUTOMATION TERMINAL WITH CYBERPUNK STYLE Continue Reading
For those of us old enough to remember the VCR (and the difficulty of programming one), the ubiquitous vacuum fluorescent display, or VFD, is burned into our memories, mostly because of their brightness and contrast when compared to the superficially-similar LCD. These displays are incredibly common even apart from VCRs, though, and it’s easy to
USING ARDUINOS TO DRIVE UNDOCUMENTED DISPLAYS Continue Reading
Most of us who are old enough are likely to have had our first experience of an online service some time in the 1990s, either through the likes of Compuserve or via an ISP. For our French readers the online experience will have come much earlier, as a forward-thinking telecommunications environment led to every household
BRING A MINITEL TERMINAL BACK TO LIFE WITH AN ESP32 Continue Reading
The official team of developers and engineers creating the Arduino range of microcontrollers and boards have this week introduced a new Nano Screw terminal adapter designed to help you speed it your prototyping efforts. The handy little add-on board is now available to purchase from the official Arduino store priced at $36 for a pack of three boards. Quick
Arduino Nano screw terminal adapter Continue Reading
Typewriters may be long past their heyday, but just because PCs, word processor software, and cheap printers have made them largely obsolete doesn’t mean the world is better off without them. Using a typewriter is a rich sensory experience, from the feel of the keys under your fingers that even the clickiest of PC keyboards
CONVERTING AN 80S TYPEWRITER INTO A LINUX TERMINAL Continue Reading
If you haven’t already, check out the Leader-Follower Robot project (https://www.instructables.com/Leader-Follower-Robot-Legs/). The Leader-Follower Robot project provides important background on the concepts covered in this tutorial. We will also be using the Leader-Follower Robot to showcase some cool sensors! This Instructable will be a deeper dive into many of the sensors you can use to add
Smart Product Project – Intro to Sensors (Lesson 3) Continue Reading
Catalog Ⅰ What are Tantalum Capacitors? Ⅱ Tantalum Capacitors Specifications 2.1 Form Factor 2.2 Standards 2.3 Capacitance Ⅲ SMD Tantalum Capacitors Ⅳ Applications for Tantalum Capacitors Ⅵ Tantalum vs. Ceramic Capacitor Testing 6.1 Tantalum vs. Ceramic Capacitor IR Life Test 6.2 Tantalum vs. Ceramic Comparative Testing Ⅶ Why Use Tantalum Capacitors in Your PCB Design?
What are Tantalum Capacitors? Continue Reading
The USB-C PD-Sink is a board by Pier 42 that enables any device to be powered from a USB supply. It allows the option to set the voltage at 5V, 9V, 12V, 15V or 20V and allowing current as high as 5A. The current settings are very flexible in steps of 250mA from 0 to 5A, but this depends
MINI USB-C PD SINK BOARD ENABLES POWER REGULATION FOR ANY DEVICE Continue Reading
Axiomtek – a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted in the research, development and manufacture of series of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency – is proud to unveil UST100-504-FL, an extremely compact fanless embedded system for in-vehicle edge computing and video analytics applications. This ruggedized in-vehicle system is certified with CE and FCC and
