Why do we have all of these redundant LED segments in the clocks around us. Just to show one digit of time we use 7 LEDs. If you are looking for a less is more solution to showing the time then you need to have a look at the Blinky Clock that John Boxall created. It is being run from a ATmega328 Microcontroller and a DS1307 Real Time Clock. This
DeviceKnit is here to make full use of all the gadgets around you. These days we have a ton of gadgets and electronics around us. More devices that are purchased have ways to talk to other things, this could be done with Ethernet, Bluetooth or some other means. How are other people that have the same gear as you linking them together to make their life fun and easy? I
Apple makes such nice sexy products but dam them for making it so hard for us to work with them. Apple has vendors who make accessory products that work with Apple products and to give them a leg up Apple has incorporated some ridiculous technology. This additional technology adds speed bumps to generic electronic products from working properly with their devices. Limor Fried has reverse engineered what needs to be
Protostack has just released a new version of their popular AVR Development Board. They have listened to user suggestions to improve the design. “All in all there are 6 changes Addition of diode to power supply block, Addition of resettable fuse to power supply block, Support for both IGO and GOI style regulators in power supply block, Size increase of IDC/Dual row section from 2×7 to 2×8 pin, Additional labels
Frank Pirz documented the build of his CNC machine which is based these plans. It was interesting to see that the 80/20 Aluminum was cut using a simple miter saw. The electronics case is a old computer case which is exactly what I also did, purchasing a large electrical box is quite expensive and computer cases are plentiful. Unlike most things, the older the case the better since older cases
Colin Karpfinger who brought us the Eagle PCB Design Ordering Tips last time is here with some more PCB help. This time Colin is helping us design a PCB Trace Antenna. One of these days you are going to make a product or project that needs to communicate without stringing a bunch of copper. To me antenna design is magic, some squiggles on a board talk to some squiggles on
If you can’t get enough information about electronics then there is a new Electronics Podcast you need to listen to. There have only been two episodes and it is so new that it is yet to be named. The show is hosted by Dave Jones of the EEVBlog and Chris Gammell of Chris Gammell’s Analog Life. You will probably remember Dave from some of his videos that we have featured
