We have testing agencies that will happily test your mains connected electrical devices and allow you to use the agency symbol if your device passes their battery of tests and determines that it is safe for consumers to use. Bigclive.com shows us that there is a company that is making a device that works well but is dangerous as hell. The device he found basically connects mains voltage directly
There are lots of companies faking electronics. Look like the next trend is faking food like eggs! There is already enough additives in modern food from the grocery store. Just imagine if the eggs in the carton didn’t come from chickens. Thankfully in Canada the only thing I need to be cautious about are free range eggs being mislabeled.
Quadcopters are exploding in popularity. The EHANG 184 kicks it up a notch by building a craft that will be smart enough to automatically fly the passenger to the desired location with some simple interaction with the touch screen navigation system. The 4 prop arms fold up to lessen the overall footprint when not in flight. Each of the arms has 2 props with high power custom motors. The
This is a DIY Cell Phone Klick Quick Button by Roman UrsuHack. You can get these for about $1 on eBay or just over $2 on Amazon but building your own might be fun and chances you have everything you need laying around. Great idea to add some extra simple functionality to your phone, turns out the simple headphone jack is getting more versatile as time goes on. I
If you are looking for an interesting FPGA project this FPGA RGB LED Matrix Driver Project looks interesting. There is a great overview of how the project was designed. Interfacing to the large display is quite complex but by doing it using a FPGA they have control over every aspect of what the hardware is doing. The current design uses the display as dumb output which gets what is to
Happy New Year! You might have shot off a few fireworks off last night. After you view a few of these videos you might build one or two of your own next time. Of course the materials used are very dangerous so it isn’t for the faint of heart. Other than the fact that you are working with explosives it is very much like any other arts and crafts
Mr Carlson’s Lab had a defective Magnum Energy MS2012 Inverter Charger. When powered up the remote head unit indicates an Internal NTC fault. This fault indicates a temperature sensor fault issue. By looking through the diagnostic menu he could see that the system thought the FET temperature was at 151 degrees C when it was just powered on and should be reading room temperature. Carlson goes through the process of getting
