 The prize this week is an Arduino Pro Mini. This contest will run for one week (November 23 – 29, 2013). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please note the image above is a side view of the thing. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest
Have a look at the picture above and see if you can see that camera trick that is involved here. To see what is not quite right in the picture and to see some other examples click the link below!
Brian Dorey is working on a DIY Pick and Place Machine that look like it is coming along very well. You can see the full build log of the machine on his site here. You can see some information here about the vision system that will be used. “The component selector is controlled via an Arduino Mini and this interfaces to a Smooth Stepper Ethernet board which is controlled
 I find it interesting to see how inexpensive electronics are constructed. My daughter got this Motion Activated Wrist Light at a school event. All of the kids were wearing them so that every time they clapped in rhythm the entire arena was flashing with a pulse of light. She no longer wanted it so I thought it would be interesting to see what made this simple thing work.
If you have never seen wire bonding in action you have to see this. Gold is the most common wire that is used for bonding but the wire is very thin so there isn’t much gold wire by weight that is actually used. Check out the 1:20 minute mark to see a how the wire is actually shaped and formed as it comes out to add the bends that
Martin Stromer made a great looking Hard Disk Clock that is actually very easy to read and looks like a great art piece at the same time. It is based around the ATMega16 Microcontroller. “The time is set by turning the disk and setting the read/write head to the desired time by hand. Then you push the reset button on the back (the upper one of the tree on
 The prize this week is an Arduino Pro Mini. This contest will run for one week (November 16 – 22, 2013). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please note the image above is a side view of the thing. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest
