Legacy Personal Blogs

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This blog contains the legacy personal blog posts of our members, other than our Top Members whose content has been migrated into individual blogs in this area. Our new platform does not have personal blogs so this is how we have preserved the personal blog posts of our members from the Jive platform. No new posts will be permitted in this blog. Instead, if you wish to create blog content, please post it in the blog in the most appropriate topic area.

Low cost DIY Energy Logger using split core current clamps

mistertee

This post is about producing a low cost DIY energy logger for residential or business applications using split core current clamps and off the shelf analogue data loggers. There is discussion of suitable components to build this system. The software ...
- 14 Jul 2013
Freedom FRDM-KL25Z adventures pt1.

fidelsalinas

The Freescales FRDM-KL25Z Platform comes in a nice little package and at a great price, but it does not come with much needed headers for utilizing shields.I'll start my advantures with this board by soldering on the 4 different headers. These are th...
- 10 Jul 2013
Block Design

oakadin

So far im working on the block arrangement for the amp. Using a pre amp with all tone and volume controls to keep it simple untill the amp is fully working.then from the pre amp to a 30w amp and then finally into a 2- channel speeker...
- 10 Jul 2013
Custard Pi 6 - 8 Relay card with ribbon connector for the Raspberry Pi

mistertee

SF Innovations have just launched Custard Pi 6 This card uses an I2C chip to drive 8 relays on a card. As the I2C chip address can be set by the user, up to 8 cards can be daisy-chained allowing the user to control up to 64 relays from the...
- 7 Jul 2013
3rd Egham Raspberry Jam 21.07.2013 - Registration now open

winkleink

Announcing the 3rd Egham Raspberry Jam on the 21st of July 2013.The 2 previous Jam's were great successes with: 3D printers in use4 different types of remote control cars available to play withWeather StationsMinecraft demonstrationsCode d...
- 5 Jul 2013
RPi/Z-wave project on hold

packetgeek

The Raspberry Pi Z-wave project is on hold for a bit. Vendor just indicated that the RazBerry board is on back order, with the next shipment expected around the 15th of July.
- 5 Jul 2013
Introduction

e14 Contributor

Helo All you Technolust, It's Hobbsy here. Let me introduce myself, I am a young IT student currently studying for my diploma here in Australia. I have my own web design business with a few of my very close friend, who are like family too me. I ...
- 26 Jun 2013
Its a new day.

e14 Contributor

Hey GuysI am starting a new blog and I looking for your input on what this blog will revolve around, will it be new tech, DIY projects, help and input on your projects or how to get started as a new Engineers.As you can see I can't decide as to what ...
- 24 Jun 2013
More custard for the Raspberry Pi

mistertee

SF Innovations have launched two stackable Custard Pi cards for the Raspberry Pi. The picture here shows the Custard Pi 5 (breakaout board with 8 digital I/O and protection) plugged into the Raspberry Pi. The Custard Pi 3 (8 analogue ...
- 23 Jun 2013
Welcome!

e14 Contributor

Hello everybody! With great surprise I heard on the Ben Heck show that a new IDE was released for the TI MSP430 Launchpad called "Energia" allegedly named after the of the Soviet space program.I am very happy with that since programming on TI's ...
- 20 Jun 2013
Hello World

e14 Contributor

I don't know where to start. This first blog (about anything ever) may suck. I'll gladly take criticizm. I'll start with Maker Faire Raleigh 6/15/13. I attended this faire (my first) directly after getting o...
- 20 Jun 2013
APS repairs its 10,000th power supply!

e14 Contributor

Yorkshire based power supply repair specialist celebrates strong demand for its technical services after repairing its 10,000th unit. Managing Director Paul Horner recalls the journey: “I can’t quite believe we have just repaired our 10,000...
- 20 Jun 2013
Morse decoder finished

e14 Contributor

Today i finished this project.
- 20 Jun 2013
Gerber format -- Extendig Gerber Format with Attributes

Richard_H

There is available a quite interesting article from Mr. Karel Tavernier (Ucamco) about the currently used Gerber format and possible improvements that could help in creating manufacturing data in the future. That's really interesting. Com...
- 17 Jun 2013
How to fix a broken SD card slot on the Raspberry Pi

mistertee

Tools required - a pair of scissors Parts required - an old credit card Cost - a few pence for a bit of glue See here on how to fix a broken SD card slot on the Raspberry Pi
- 16 Jun 2013
TGIF - set interrupt vector to weekend!

fustini

TGIF - set interrupt vector to weekend!This shirt was made for a recurring electronics arts & media event, called IRQ, in Toronto. It started 10 years ago. Here's the first flyer:(click image to enlarge)The last IRQ I attended was dur...
- 14 Jun 2013
SMD soldering The FaceDancer11 designed by Travis Goodspeed

fidelsalinas

A little step by step SMD soldering http://goodfet.sourceforge.net/http://goodfet.sourceforge.net/hardware/facedancer11/The purpose of this board is to allow USB devices to be written in host-side Python, so that one workstation can fuzz-test the USB...
- 14 Jun 2013
New 8 channel analogue input card for the Raspberry Pi

mistertee

The latest addition to the Custard Pi range is just being launched. This will be listed on Amazon in the next few days and will also be available from the Ohm Books website. Custard Pi 3 details below: The Custard Pi 3 provides t...
- 13 Jun 2013
E3 Console Wars. Where is the real fight happening?

e14 Contributor

This week has seen a awful lot of chatter around the latest round of the console wars. The early salvos have already been fired with Nintendo announcing a graceful bowing out of the fight in a Sega-esk manner to concentrate on games developmen...
- 13 Jun 2013
We're Recruiting: Technical Social Media Specialist (element14 community)

Stuartsjones

The element14 community is currently recruiting for a technical social media specialist based out of our Chicago office. The full job spec is up on our LinkedIn page, but essentially we're looking for somebody from a maker/hacker/engineering backgrou...
- 11 Jun 2013
Panasonic Hybrid Caps -Endurance upgraded to 10K hours.

jing.liu

Great news to share: Panasonic Hybrid Caps ZA series has upgraded its endurance from 5K hours to 10K hours! Panasonic Hybrid Caps have currently ZA series (featuring 105°C) and ZC series ( featuring 125°C) available. This compact design is an ...
- 11 Jun 2013
Weird Science

billabott

Maybe some of you have heard of a tourist attraction in South Florida called Coral Castle. It was built be Mr. Ed Leedskalnin of Latvia. I have been perculating his ideas for a year or two in my old head. Today, I generated some int...
- 10 Jun 2013
Using my RasPi's GPIO

e14 Contributor

So I've been a busy bee with my Raspberry Pi. Today, I successfully set up the GPIO and used it with a PIR and an LED. Trivial and simple stuff, but coming from the Arduino IDE (where most everything is spelled out for you) to the Python platform, I'...
- 10 Jun 2013
WowWee Rovio: Battery Charger Fix

SGarciaV

WowWee RovioBattery Charger FixBy Salvador Garcia Introduction Some WowWee Rovio robots were incorrectly assembled. As a result one of the charger circuit diodes was inserted backwards. This caused the robot to not fully charge the ba...
- 9 Jun 2013
Embedded Pi Up Close | Connect Raspberry Pi, Arduino & ARM

patkelly

I've been fortunate enough to hold the Embedded Pi in my hands to get a real feel for the product and take some up close pictures of the board for you to see how this fits together. Before we get to the pictures here's a brief rundown of what th...
- 7 Jun 2013