If you are looking for a compact development board that has more computing power than your Arduinos this might be the time to take the plunge into the Raspberry Pi world now that the RASPBERRY PI ZERO has been released. TheRaspberryPiGuy gives us the run down. They have made it much smaller, removed all of the larger components and some have been replaced with mini counterparts. If you blow
KF5OBS shares a tour of the Teledyne LeCroy Factory. Unlike a high volume electronic manufacturing like TV manufacturing this facility has stations where the equipment spends significant time. They can afford to do things this way since these are not built in the millions. It is interesting to hear that these scopes need to have an antivirus scan performed before it ships. Just like high end sports cars, many of these
When you are making some prototype PCBs it is quite simple until you go double sided, now you need to potentially solder through hole components on both sides, stick small wires in each via and solder both sides or insert small rivets in the holes. DIYyouwhere is playing around with a method where they attach a brush to the drill so that they can electrically detect when the metal
So if you are looking for a neat keyboard mod I think you can take one or two of the ideas that you can see in the HacKeyboard and run with it. I really like the hidden USB storage drive which is mounted with a secret keyboard sequence. If the keyboard was just regular looking that would be very secure since who would think there was some secrets lurking
You can see the case above that Tony Flynn built the Internet Radio project around. The outside may look old but the internals are sporting a powerful Raspberry Pi. It uses your local wifi to tune in internet tunes. “The radio is configurable by anyone and no programming skills are required. Â All the stations and settings are stored in a text based configuration file which is stored on
This is an inexpensive component tester called the FISH 8840 which you can find from many online eBay retailers for around $30. The interface is very simple, attach a device to be tested and press the test button. It turns off after about 20 seconds, pressing the off button puts it into sleep mode immediately. There is a ZIF socket that allows you to insert leaded devices and pads
Check out this Self-flying Drone Avoids Obstacles at 30 Miles per Hour. It looks like this technology is is not just for smart cars trying to avoid pedestrians and parked cars. CSAIL PhD student Andrew Barry has made this project open source for everyone to benefit from. It can fly through the treetops and dynamically avoid branches and tree trunks. It does this by using a stereo vision system.
