Our friend Daniel Garcia from Proto Stack has come up with a bunch of Breadboard Tips and Tricks that could make your life a bit easier next time you are breadboarding a project. The one shown here is a nice tip where you use pin headers to allow the use of multi pin devices that could otherwise never be connected to a breadboard. I do the same thing with some
It is nice to be able to see a status of equipment at a glance. A power on light on the power bar, some flashing lights on the router are some things that can be glanced at to ensure everything is operating properly. A server on the other hand is a bit trickier, you might want to see what the load is like on the server, check some ping times,
Steve Schuler sent in this Spy Video TRAKR Claw Attachment Hack he has done to his Spy Video TRAKR. The new version of the spy car has a ton of additional features when you compare it to the older Spy Video Car that we took apart. Wildplanet has really gone in a good direction with this new device since they are opening up their device for custom code to be
Fellow Canadian Brad has been making a video log of the building of his Hexapod. You can see all the videos of the build here on his Youtube channel. “Handmade hexapod running my own handwritten c++ code. Servo’s are a bit squishy due to being underpowered for the time being. Wiring will be cleaned up and main processor mounted within the next few weeks.”
The prize this week is a solar flashlight, if you want to use this as a flashlight you better charge it during the day and not keep it hidden in a drawer. 🙂 I am thinking that the housing could make for a very small surface mount project. Not sure if the solar cell would have enough power to energize a very low current circuit but I would think it
This LC Meter was built using a Microchip PIC 16F628A. It would make life a bit easier when attempting to identify a few of those components that are always left over on the desk after building a project. Mine are often dumped into a miscellaneous box with other various components which makes it even more difficult to identify later… I think this meter would make a great addition to my
My daughter Alexis and I worked on this Karate Chop project as an entry into the Avnet Dog Days Summer Contest. She had the idea to make a game to enter in the entertainment section of the contest. The game she came up with was a reaction game where you have to quickly move to the correct indicated position. Four infrared detection circuits was the resulting method used to detect
