Legacy Personal Blogs

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Surface Temperature Measurement

lab1971

Although thermocouple assemblies are primarily tip sensing devices, the use of protection tubes (sheaths) renders surface sensing impractical. Physically, the probedoes not lend itself to surface presentation and stem conduction would cause reading e...
- 20 Mar 2018
Case Milling CAM (and what is CAM anyway?) | Hack Like Heck Build Log

baldengineer

This week felt like the week of experiments. I have never milled Sintra (PVC) before and I have never used Fusion 360 to generate the mill's CAM files. My enclosure is using layers of PVC for a couple of reasons. First, my 3D printer's build ...
- 20 Mar 2018
RetroPie Portable, part I

ajkatz83

So it's been a few eventful weeks try to design a custom enclosure for the Hack Like Heck Contest here on Element 14. I have been using Fusion 360 trying to figure out as to what would be the best...
- 20 Mar 2018
Thought I would share this was feeling lonely on vacation until this.

gam3t3ch

I found a RadioShack in Granada in Nicaragua while I was taking a trip around in the horse and buggy tour. Didn't get to go in but looks like you have to buy shades to go it must be amazing in there.
- 18 Mar 2018
Miscellaneous notes on the DLP-2000 projector

packetgeek

For now, these are mostly reminders to myself. I'll incorporate them into my write-up in the coming week. In no partciular order:The device comes assembled, mounted on top of the Beagle Bone Black (BBB). Although it appears to need i...
- 17 Mar 2018
Transistors: The Astable Multivibrator (Featuring SuperLEDman).

jc2048

I'm still very short of time, so this blog is just a quick, simple one. Well, it had to happen eventually, here I am doing the astable multivibrator (an oscillator circuit). This is going to be in two parts. First a look at the circuit in t...
- 17 Mar 2018
Aaaand Liftoff!

crankin

Well, Here I am. Element14's website, creating a blog. Interesting. I suppose I should introduce myself. I was born in Hershey, PA. My family swiftly moved to NE Ohio. (For non-Ohioans, think Cleveland) I went to school in the most rural ...
- 16 Mar 2018
Hub back online!

ajkatz83

If I never mentioned it, I have gotten into 3D printing over more than two years ago and never looked back! The CNC training I received at Cuyahoga Community College in there Precision Machine Technology program during 2007. We were trained on Haas C...
- 14 Mar 2018
Screen success | Hack Like Heck build update

baldengineer

As I previously wrote, I was not happy with the performance of a SPI-based LCD screen. The framerate was much lower than I expected. I happened to have some 4.3" TFT panels with 40 pin connectors. The problem is that I don't have their original...
- 13 Mar 2018
What is with that Bee Avatar you use?

james.flynn

That is an good question, I am a Bee Keeper so I though it appropriate to use a "busy bee" as my avatar. I started with 2 hives and grew it to 5 before this last winter when the weather managed to kill them all here in NC. Now I'm back to...
- 10 Mar 2018
Unboxing the Logitech C920 HD Pro Webcam

ninjatrent

Unboxing the Logitech C920 HD Pro WebcamHi everyone. I recently purchased the Logitech c920 HD Pro Webcam for a project and I thought it would be nice to share this experience.http://www.newark.com/logitech/960-000764/webcam-hd-1920-x-1080-usb/dp/48T...
- 9 Mar 2018
Hack like Heck: My Pi 3 Build Introduction

baldengineer

Check out my Auditon Video Here! If Ben hadn't released his recent "Pi No HDMI" build, I would have targetted that mod for my portable Pi Build. Turns out, I’m going to need to follow his guide on that one. For my Portable Pi...
- 9 Mar 2018
Wireless Power Transfer Demo Kit

djfraz

For one of my courses this year we have to design a demo/educational kit demonstrating an electromagnetic phenomenon, our group has chosen Wireless Power transfer. Our current idea is to design a kit with two WPT antennas on a slider to demonstr...
- 6 Mar 2018
PSR series with ultra-low ohmic shunt resistors for automotive and industrial applications

rohm_eu

With its PSR100 series, ROHM offers a significantly more compact version of its proven PSR series. The PSR100 series ultra-low ohmic shunt resistors have a high-power capability and are suited to current measurement in automotive and industrial appli...
- 28 Feb 2018
Vacation in Europe!

stump

I'm very exited that in 2 weeks I will be going to Europe. In other news, I have touched C++ after a year of not using it. Boy did I forget a lot. Mainly Namespace std;. I'm still on a search for a general perpose SQL type language. I'm not sure if i...
- 22 Feb 2018
High voltage ringer rotary phone to VoIP phone

ajkatz83

The next thing I had here on my parade of projects was going to be a classic! My dad had this old rotary ringer telephone in the shop here. It reminded him of the good old days of how telephones were and was using it here for a little while until we ...
- 21 Feb 2018
I finally set up a website for my projects in AI, Robotics etc.

johnfire

come enjoy if its your thing www.tandkcybernetics.christopherrehm.de
- 21 Feb 2018
Go Pro Hero 5 Session RC Torture Test FPV

ninjatrent

www.youtube.com/watch
- 20 Feb 2018
An Engineer's version of Olympic Curling

Sean_Miller

www.youtube.com/watch
- 18 Feb 2018
FPGAs and Xilinx

ajkatz83

Taking that FPGA intro that was under the learning essentials has really got me curious now. During my introduction to this 8-bit re-innovation and revolution make new ways to work with 8-bit machines, so far with the Commodore SX-64 I have her...
- 17 Feb 2018
Autodesk Fusion 360 Quick Tutorial

Sean_Miller

In a couple of months, we will begin making accessibility related projects for those who are physically challenged. The projects will be designed to make a "smart" home aid a person through their day. One challenge will be gettin...
- 16 Feb 2018
Switch Mode Power Supply from Commodore SX-64 (Epilogue)

ajkatz83

Hello all: I would like to thank you for all your words of wisdom and technical expertise. I really couldn't have done any of this without some help. So today, this is the latest--the power supply is up and running again after about 1.5 mon...
- 15 Feb 2018
Neutron Wand accomplished!

ajkatz83

Going to be touching this up a little bit more. Need to diffuse the vent and paint up the muzzle's bare spot there, but other than that I got quite a bit recorded. I sort of like the rough look to it, a lot of the glue made it look as if there ...
- 15 Feb 2018
MIT AppInventor, HC06 and Arduino: much improved method of sending data via Bluetooth - Part 1, The Arduino Side

neilk

My early Blogs about moving data between Arduino and Android apps developed using MIT AppInventor were posted back in 2014. Since then I've learned a little more about some of the features of AppInventor and also how to use Arduino SoftwareSerial...
- 14 Feb 2018
Switch Mode Power Supply from a SX-64

ajkatz83

The BackstoryRecently I had become involved with this b-bit revolution that has been going on. I remember, that perhaps the first computer I had before getting the IBM PS/2 model 70 was a Commodore SX-64, and man it did everything! From the dot matri...
- 13 Feb 2018