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Velocity Sensitive Digital Piano - Cornell University ECE 5760 Advanced Microcontrollers Final Project
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  The Cornell University ECE 5760 Advanced Microcontroller course is done! As usual there are lots of interesting creations that have full documentation for us to have a look at. There are 10 projects posted (2 of them still need the project details to be added). This time there is a great variety of projects, everything from realtime face tracking to this Velocity Sensitive Digital Piano by Chris McNally and

Video of Solder Reflow in Progress
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Have a look at this great video footage that is over at Curious Inventor. It was recorded at a SMT soldering class where a skillet was used to heat the board to flow the solder paste. It still fascinates me how well the parts magically align themselves! If you are looking for soldering skillet information, have a look at the article we did about the Adafruit skillet. Another popular method

Look Inside a Heating Pad
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Ever wonder what is in one of those heating pads? Well you’re in luck, I have one here that stopped working. Of course I didn’t chuck it in the garbage, I took it apart and see what made it tick. Overall it is exactly what I expected, a few thermal cut out devices, one had obviously over heated and opened the circuit. It must have been hot for awhile before

Parallax Webinar - Learn Propeller Assembly Language Programming
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Thanks to Gadget Gangster for alerting us to a Parallax Webinar that will allow you to Learn Propeller Assembly Language Programming. “Have you been programming the Propeller in the Spin language exclusively?  Now is your chance to explore a new set of possibilities that the Propeller Assembly Language delivers.  Expert Propeller developers often use a combination of Assembly and Spin to create very powerful objects.  Now you can too! Some

AVR Micro Controller Class
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  Keith Chester is going to be putting on a AVR Micro Controller Class on December 12, 2009. If you are in the area (see below) and want to learn a bit, check it out! "FUBAR Labs and Hive 76 – a New Jersey and Philadelphia hackerspace, respectively, are teaming up to provide an introduction to AVR micro controllers class. Both groups are non profit and ALL proceeds go to

Camosun College Robotics
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  Hacked Gadgets went to Island Tech 2009 which was on Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada to check on the technology that was being demonstrated. Camosun College had some cool robots on display. Unfortunately the only ones that they had operational were two sumo-bots. The very large GPS robot was there for looks only. That’s too bad since it would have been very interesting to see it in operation. The

Gov 2.0 Summit Creating an Effective Platform
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  This Creating an Effective Platform talk that was recorded at the Gov 2.0 Summit is very interesting. Listen to it to see how some very creative people think. To see all the recorded talks have a look here. Speakers are, John Markoff from New York Times,  Vint Cerf from Google,  Jack Dorsey from Twitter and Tim Sparapani from Facebook.