 The prize this week is a ESP8266 Serial WIFI Wireless Transceiver Module so you can add WIFI to your next project. This contest will run for one week (Feb 9- 13, 2015). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Don’t need a make or model, just what what the thing is used for. Please
 The ESP8266 is quickly becoming a very popular chip, I am sure this is mostly due to the dirt cheap price point. If you are adding this to a battery operated application you might want to drop the power consumption as low as possible. There are many things that can be done to do this, removing the indication LED is the first obvious step. Jagenberg.info has done some work in
Making a custom PCB is one thing, drilling a ton of holes for a bunch of through hole devices is still a pain. ACIDBOURBON shows us how he made a Automated PCB Drill Press that solves the issue. A Proxxon MICRO compound table KT 70 was automated by connecting some stepper motors to the hand crank mechanism. Some software magic was then all that was needed to finish things off.
If you have anything that can move in XY directions chances are you can hack a cutting laser onto it and make a quick and dirty laser cutter. Check out this Laser Engraver Made of Silhouette Blade Cutter, a 500mW laser was mounted to a blade cutting machine. Using Robocut allows the computer to control the cutter.
This Open Source Talking Multimedia Clock looks like a fun clock platform that could be developed into many interesting projects. “The processor is based on the Arduino Uno platform, the display is a LoL Shield and the speech engine is the SpeakJet chip. Various analog sensors and audio circuits have been cobbled together. The firmware has been developed in C using the AVR gcc compiler.”
 The prize this week is a ESP8266 Serial WIFI Wireless Transceiver Module so you can add WIFI to your next project. This contest will run for one week (Feb 3- 6, 2015). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Don’t need a make or model, just what what the thing is used for. Please
If you are looking for some inspiration for your next project you might want to have a look at the NetSensor kit from hobbyist.co.nz. Of course this is a nice bundle of hardware and code that looks like it works very well and would be handy. You could probably do something similar with the equipment you have on hand by looking through the project details. “NetSensor is an Arduino Kit which
