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. ”
With the adoption of IOT long runtime on battery power is something that is a huge concern. We don’t mind charging our smartphones daily but if we have a dozen IOT devices in our home we would like them to be invisible and just operate for as long as possible without needing attention. Andreas Spiess has done some research using the popular ESP8266 and a variety of batteries. In his test
It is that time again! There is a new batch of Cornell University ECE 5760 Advanced Microcontrollers Final Projects. If you have done any PID work in the past the FPGA controlled Magnetic Levitation by Gautham Ponnu, Ryan Land, Nathan Spallone should be of interest. They are using a Altera DE2-115 FPGA board to monitor and control a steel ball about 1mm above the position sensor with great accuracy. “The LDC1000
Bob over at Making Stuff didn’t want to purchase an expensive cable for his digital calipers, instead he decided to build it. A small 3D printed grooved part with a few connected wires is all that is needed to connect to the data output port of the calipers. A logic level converter is needed to change from 1.5 volt output of the calipers a voltage high enough for a solid
If you are looking to send some data or some audio over a fairly long distance wirelessly you can have a look at this very cheap solution if line of site will work. Iforce2d is using a very inexpensive laser diode and receiver to get the job done. This code is what does the heavy lifting as far as getting the data across the link.
If you enjoy table tennis this trainer might be a great next project. Thomas Mayer created this as his bachelor thesis project. Two Playstation CL-eye cameras are used to view the play area and track the ball. A project is then used to display game elements that the players can interact with to play many game scenarios. The game was created using VVVV which is a visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping
Ben Heck and his team built this Mechanical Television. It uses holes drilled into a vinyl record which is spun with a light source behind it. A light sensor is then used to determine the amount of light that is reflected off the surface of the item that they would like to transmit. A complimentary rotating disk with a controlled light source is used to duplicate what the
