DIY PCBs are quite simple to make these days but DIY Flexible Circuit Boards are still something that is not easy and also not common in most PCB production houses. With this technique you can now dabble with flexible boards in your next project. Via: 3ders Thanks to Wheedal for the tip “A fairly new elastomeric rubber filament is now available that sticks quite well to copper. It
The Tesla Gigafactory is still being built. It is huge but the building will be much larger when completed. Tesla and Panasonic are in a joint venture in this building. Full production is slated for 2018. Full production will be 500,000 to 1,500,000 packs per year! Automated battery construction for the win.
Keep your fingers clear of these machines! If you are looking for a job that is bound to eventually take off one of your fingers some of these machines are sure to help with that. Fantastic machines but most are very dangerous.
Looking for a clock build? This DIY Circular Stepper Motor Clock looks like fun and the parts would be very inexpensive. “The idea behind the clock is a circle with a circumference of 72cm (28.3465 inch’s) that ticks at 1cm every ten minutes which means every 72 ticks will equal 12 hours making it a 12 hour clock. ”
Automating crop harvesting is one farming duty that robotics is good at but dealing with animals that are lose in a field is another story. The SwagBot is a robot that will soon be tending to the animals in the field. Via: IEEE Spectrum “SwagBot is designed to “work in highly undulating terrain, for the purposes of supporting farmers in grazing livestock operations,†Dr. Sukkarieh told us. The robot
This might be the time to jump onto the 3D printer bandwagon. The place that provides cheap good quality cables looks to now be the place to pick up a cheap and reliable 3D printer. At $200 it has some features that you wouldn’t expect to see such as a nice full color display to view settings such as platform temperature so you can easily keep your eye on
HARRIS’ ELECTRONICS is developing a prototype set of Smart Glasses. This is not an easy task! You can read about the development challenges here. Thanks for the tip James. “The glasses themselves are based around an STM32F051K8 microcontroller (LQFP32 for easy soldering!). All the firmware is custom written though I got the LCD driver initialization codes from the BuyDisplay examples. The firmware is written using a somewhat “co-operative schedulingâ€
