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DIY – Build your own CNC milling machine

Posted on August 23, 2006 by max

Interesting article on how to build your own CNC machine.

via [sci-spot.com]

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DIY – Build your own sprinkler system

Posted on August 23, 2006 by max

Here’s a DIY on how to make your own sprinkler system. via [popularmechanics]

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DIY Nuke detector in SF Bay Area

Posted on August 23, 2006 by max

Here’s some good news to protect people of zedomax…

“The Department of Homeland Security announced plans last month to bolster U.S. port defenses with radiation scanners. The program, primarily aimed at detecting nukes smuggled by terrorists in shipping containers, will cost an estimated $1.15 billion, but won’t be completed until 2011. Here on the San Francisco Bay, a group of do-it-yourself volunteer researchers is not waiting for the mushroom cloud. They say they are close to perfecting a portable device that could do much the same thing right now, for t

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POS w/ VOIP RFID

Posted on August 22, 2006 by max

It’s not the POS you are thinking…

Point Of Sale system w/ VOIP & RFID is being implemented in Japan,

the emerging POS systems today… via [engadget]

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DIY – Make a G-Meter for your car in 1 minute!

Posted on August 22, 2006 by max

Here’s a DIY on how to make a G-meter for you car and measure how many Gs your car can handle.

We will use an accelerometer chip from Dimension Engineering and CUBLOC CB220 module from Comfile to cut down our hardware development to near a minute.

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New record for world’s fastest transistor set 100GHz

Posted on August 21, 2006 by max
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The new transistor is faster than 2X the current record for transistor speed.

“Engineers in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (University of Southampton, UK) have developed a method to make bipolar transistors twice as fast as current devices.” via [physorg.com]

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RS232 Baud Rate Converter

Posted on August 21, 2006 by max

Are u using non-standard baud rates and your main controller doesn’t support standard baud rates?

Here’s a baud rate converter that will convert anything from 300 bps to 115200 bps.

Kinda pricey, but will do the job.

via [bb-elec.com]

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Cost-effective Interface Boards for isolation, 4-20mA, DACs, ADCs

Posted on August 21, 2006 by max

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Send a SMS message to a cell phone using a Bluetree GPRS modem and CuTOUCH™

Posted on August 17, 2006 by max

Here’s an application note that uses Bluetree’s M2M Express GPRS modem and CuTOUCH touch screen controller to send a text message. These GPRS modems are becoming more and more common so we gotta learn to interface w/ them at one point or another. Yes, we will also use a “touch-enabled” Chocolate LG cell phone… 🙂 link

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Add a Bar-code Scanner to ur App

Posted on August 16, 2006 by max

Do u need a Bar-code scanner for your app?

Today we will try to use a Metrologic Voyager Bar-code scanner to scan a coke bottle, Jagermeister bottle, CT1721 Start Kit Bard code label, and yes, UPS tracking number.

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