Circuit Lab is now Available Offline so you can design some cool circuits in your cabin in the woods. When you come back to civilization the your new creations will sync so that they are available online for collaboration and sharing. “Our team is happy to announce that CircuitLab is now available offline! Our belief at CircuitLab is that your electronics design tools should be available to you wherever,
This forum post over at the EEVBlog Forum gives us a great look at the inside of an old Tektronix 465 Oscilloscope and walks through the repair and refurbishment of the scope. The refurbishment isn’t just taking a cotton swab and rubbing out some dirt, it is rather invasive including a complete system dismantle and cleaning. Nice thing about this method is we get to see all of the
When developing a new circuit design you will find that you often drop in solutions from previous projects since there’s no reason to re-invent the wheel every time. HackEDA takes this idea and pushes it out to the web, it’s in beta right now so it might not be able to handle all of your project ideas but by clicking a few buttons you can build the basic framework
If you have a Raspberry Pi you can use your existing LEGO MINDSTORMS Sensors. Thanks to John Cole from Dexter Industries for sharing this with us. “This is also a great example of how to get started with I2C on the Raspberry Pi. We chose the dIMU because it’s easy to access and use, with just four lines to connect (SDA, SCL, GND, and VCC).  You may have to
Thanks to Danielle from PBS for sending in this interesting video about The First Software Patent. They will be releasing a new video every 2 weeks, check out the channel for a bunch of interesting ones they have already released (there are 6 so far). The guy who invented the screw in coffin might not get rich from the idea but if this was available when the idea of
Colin Karpfinger who you might have seen in Wired recently (and on Hacked Gadgets before) wanted to inspire the current group of students at his old College, he told them how he started out in electronics and some of the stumbles along the way. He talks about his 555 timer project where he built a beeping countdown bomb simulation on a breadboard. Unfortunately the professor wasn’t very impressed. 🙂
If you want to learn about microcontrollers in a classroom setting but don’t have the time (or money) to attend university lectures you are in luck. Bruce Land who teaches the popular ECE4760 Microcontrolle course has just posted the lecture videos online. This means you can get the benefit of this great Cornell course from the convenience of your own home and it will not cost you a cent.
