Here’s a cool DIY on how to build your own laptop using a microcontroller and an LCD. Well we should really call it, “MCU Laptop” but it’s a great exercise for anyone learning computer hardware.
Ever thought to yourself, “Hey, I could prob ...
Ooooohhhh, check out this cool LED POV! You can do current time, signs, and more! Nicely done!
From the pictures you can see there’s a motor on the rotor shaft (with the blue housing), and an additional one below the mounting plate. The first motor turned out have too l ...
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Here’s a tight ass robot!
While simple yet robust behaviors can be achieved without a model at all, here we show how low-level sensation and actuation synergies can give rise to an inter ...
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Wow, check out this awesome homemade balancing skateboard. As a skateboarder myself, this is way too cool…
It’s very similar to a snowboard to ride, requiring no user input ...
Check out this octopart search engine for electronic parts. It seems to searching mouser, digikey, and other major electronic part companies for stuff.
The creator dropped out of school to make this so everyone please take a look!
P.S. I couldn’t find any Make controllers ...
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Wow, check out the wifi-robot from wifibot.com!
WiFiBoT comes to fill the gap between the simple toys and the sophisticated but
expensive robots that can be found today in the mar ...
Here’s a cool little project that stores data into an SD card using solar power.
After some prodding from customers and an upcoming prototype run I decided to throw in a little breakout board that would allow 2 solar panels to be connected in parallel to a 7805 linear regu ...
Here’s a cool blog I came across on our new wagg.it site.
It’s a custom application that will send email containing current external IP address to a specified email address automatically at set intervals.
Why do you need this?
I used to work as a network administrato ...
Check out this PIC based bluetooth accelerometer that you can use for your future wireless accelerometer applications.
This is a small wireless sensor platform providing a bluetooth SPP link to three axes of accelerometer data. The accelerometers are sampled by a PIC microcontr ...
Check out the new RFID tags that are smaller than human hair from Hitachi Japan!
The minute devices measure just 0.05mm by 0.05mm (0.002×0.002in) and to the naked eye look like spots of powder.
They are thin enough to be embedded in a sheet of paper, Hitachi spokesman Masay ...
