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.

What will be the impact of introduction of Rasberry pi 2 and Windows 10 for pi2 ?

deepankarmaithani

Raspberry pi is a product that i am in love with and this piece of pi is getting better and better with the passing time. The introduction of raspberry pi 2 has opened door for new set of things like image processing and features like face tracking a...
- 13 Feb 2015
Visible and IR Pi Cameras Film and Explosion

mikedavis

Based on the success of the Pi NoIR camera explosion, I decided to capture the same explosion with the Pi Camera and the Pi NoIR at the same time. The setup was very simple. Two RPis with a camera in each one. My friend started them ...
- 13 Feb 2015
Point

e14 Contributor

I need my points!
- 12 Feb 2015
Vintage Turntable repair: Can I fix a Perpetuum Ebner from 1958 - part 2 - Calculating the Motor Speed

Jan Cumps

From the previous post: For almost a year I have a vintage turntable from Perpetuum Ebner at home.It's not mine. It belongs to someone that asked me to fix it. And it turned out that fixing the motor would cost too much.I asked the owner to ...
- 12 Feb 2015
PCB question

e14 Contributor

I am wondering if there is a way to make a *small pcb in the realm of 2x3 inches that could run on batteries. I would want it to allow for a remote signal when that signal is received, engage a solenoid for 2-3 seconds and then reset the solenoid bac...
- 12 Feb 2015
Načo?

e14 Contributor

Načo?
- 11 Feb 2015
To the Creative Thinkers, Innovators, and Designers:

e14 Contributor

For those who have told you your ideas are crazy and will never work....It is because of people like you who keep improving and creating the new technology and products that move our world forward.The people who have these type of minds are incredibl...
- 11 Feb 2015
Introducing the new Matrix TSL dual full bridge motor driver E-block

benmatrix

This new addition to the Matrix TSL E-blocks range is a motor driver board which uses the L6206 DMOS dual full bridge driver IC and is designed specifically for motor control applications, having isolated DMOS Power Transistors combined with CMOS and...
- 11 Feb 2015
BMP085 - initial success

packetgeek

I now have working C code that queries current temperature from the Bosch BMP085 temperature/pressure/altimeter sensor. I'd been frustrated with the sensor for awhile as I couldn't extract an intelligible answer from it. After peeking at ...
- 11 Feb 2015
Raspberry Pi stopped?

M0DCD

One of my Pi cards stopped booting, obviously not a hardware fault, I do different projects on a selection of cards as it makes life and management a lot easier. Ah yes rtl-sdr software defined radio. Repurpose a USB TV tuner as the front end fo...
- 11 Feb 2015
My first 3D printing model

e14 Contributor

I got a Geeetech 3d-printer, and printed my first object. Here is how it’s made from ABS filament, and a lot of details about the model. StartCreate 3D objects in reality, sounds difficult and magical. In the past, only factories can do it. But ...
- 11 Feb 2015
Weird Cap

nick123

Hey Guys, Check out this odd looking cap I found on the PS2 rectifier board.
- 9 Feb 2015
USB Robotics and a Raspberry Pi - Part 3

e14 Contributor

'Hey Sir, I like your Rocket Launcher, but wouldn't it be cooler if you could control it through Minecraft?'So said one of my pupils and who am I to disappoint. The main job was to add an interface to my basic USB control program. Thi...
- 9 Feb 2015
USB Robotics and a Raspberry Pi - Part 2

e14 Contributor

So, hardware selected the next job was deciding how to control the USB ports. I selected PyUSB. How to download and install PyUSB onto my Raspberry Pi. Download PyUSB from sourceforge using this link http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyusb/and the...
- 9 Feb 2015
USB Robotics and a Raspberry Pi - Part 1

e14 Contributor

The challenge I set myself was to control a USB device using a Raspberry Pi. The problem initially appeared quite simple. Connect the USB device, work out how to drive it, code an interface and job done! Unfortunately, it didn’t work out quite that s...
- 9 Feb 2015
Vintage Turntable repair: Can I fix a Perpetuum Ebner from 1958 - part 1

Jan Cumps

For almost a year I have a vintage turntable from Perpetuum Ebner at home.It's not mine. It belongs to someone that asked me to fix it. And it turned out that fixing the motor would cost too much.I asked the owner to collect the tt. That hasn&#39...
- 9 Feb 2015
Probing your Hercules LaunchPad CAN bus Part 3

Jan Cumps

The Hercules LaunchPads of Texas Instruments have two (or three) CAN controllers.It is possible to learn the CAN protocol and have real messages flowing with the LaunchPad and only three jellybean components.This series explains how the standard TI e...
- 9 Feb 2015
Why search doesn't work on TEA5767 breakout boards

packetgeek

Have been seeing various people complain about issues with the search function on TEA5767-based breakout boards. It's a problem that doesn't show up in RD5807SP breakout boards when run in emulated TEA5767 mode. I bought one of the boards ...
- 8 Feb 2015
In-the-Air-Challenge: Laser based dust particle counter using a photodiode

janisalnis

My device is based on article by a A. Morpurgo "A low-cost instrument for environmental particulate analysis based on optical scattering". Note that the OOPA350 schematic in original paper has some mistakes: OP legs are incorrectly numbere...
- 7 Feb 2015
My First Try Using The MagiQuest Wand With An Arduino

e14 Contributor

So I have been looking around online for ways to use the MagiQuest wand at home, but have found very few solutions. I decided to make my own. Using the Arduino IR library I got some raw values from the wand using a old IR sensor from a VCR and then t...
- 7 Feb 2015
New Pickups

nick123

Thanks to you guys I'm back at electronics. I replaced the pickups in my electric guitar, and recorded a short riff that I played with my new pickups. My goal was to sound like George Harrison. How do you think it sounds? (The riff is by George Harri...
- 6 Feb 2015
Using Docker on Raspberry Pi B+

e14 Contributor

In 2014 I watched new single-board-computers enter the market. Since I am very fond of the Raspberry Pi project and I am using RPi for quite some time, I am now curious about the differences. I am currently looking for a suitable platform to be used ...
- 6 Feb 2015
Using Docker on Beaglebone Black

e14 Contributor

In 2014 I watched new single-board-computers enter the market. I am very fond of the Raspberry Pi project and I am using RPi for quite some time now as you can see from my previous posts on my website. Now I am curious about the differences. I am cur...
- 5 Feb 2015
New Flowcode Component; Wireless Things/ Ciseco – SRF Module

benmatrix

I’m quite lucky in my job, I regularly get to play with new bits of kit. We receive and test development kits from all companies and brands. Give or take, they’re all largely the same. A new microcontroller, a form of connection to the computer for p...
- 5 Feb 2015
More information on ESCO and apprecticeships

gnevison

ESCO, the Electronics Systems Community has been invited by BIS, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to lead the work on developing a set of new apprenticeship standards under the Trailblazer scheme. With input from some leading ...
- 5 Feb 2015