I was thinking about this for quite a while. We like to strip parts from old boards both to save money but also to find those "cool" parts that aren't really accessable in the low volumes the average experimenter can muster. Any way one step aw...
Nice little project bringing together some technology and whimsey in one dash.It recognises faces and talks to the person about what is important to them....i.e The weather www.youtube.com/watch The available processing power on the Pi lim...
Looks like the Phanton Flex4K has been released and the first of what probably be a slew of lush videos on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/63490371 Simply the best thing you can do with your spare $110K burning that hole in your pocket ...awe...
Potentially a very useful function is the Altium project import feature.In fact if I can import some Assets done in Altium I can probably reduce my project time in half.How ever when I come to use it it fails to import these items. As ay one succesfu...
Ever wondered how much heat's been produced by your equipment?Takes a look at my Sterling Engine busily spinning as a result of the heatfrom an External drive running on my desk !www.youtube.com/watch Pitty there isn't much you can do that...
A friend and I got talking about the speach sythesiser ICs used in music such as Kraftwerk this turned out to be the SSI/Votrax SC02 Now the '02 was extremely hard to get hold of but th e SC01 was indeed available from Ebay, now that's an extremely d...
I've just got this pre-release board from Magnus. Yes it's yet another FPGA board, but where as most have some rather anoying lack of "whatever device connection you needed" it's simple and well thought out with AUDIO/USB/HDMIand micro SDwith 64MB of...
I've been watching some of Electronics Blogs and during the manditory tear down they always came upagainst the laser etched chip. All very anoying but apparently not as effective as it could be if you have agood idea from the rest of the design you c...
The classic way of teaching folk the 101 of microcontrollers is to get a few LED's to flash.The code is simple the result obvious and we are all strangely impressed by this "hello World" In that vein I decided to make a fun object whic is ...
This chap obviously has something against our Vending machine overloards and as spent aninordinate amount of time designing a Robot (or remote control device if you prefer) that can sitinside a vending machine and lower drinks down the shoot. ww...
So much fun I subscribed . I don't think the electronics are that specialbut this is a great example of a scratch built body for a robot. Dance Robot Dance !!www.youtube.com/watch Very Japanese .....great!
Ok needed to get going on actually installing the Eagle 6.4 on my Fedora 18 machine.Firstly after the install comes the substantial number of updates (Get these or be forever a Slacker!! ) Imediately I have a couple of problems here, firstly the...
Just been popping through the vast number of FOSDEM videos and found this little gem. if you are a member of an Open Source project encourage those non technical Jane's and Joes'sThey bring with them the ability to comunicate to the world ...
The last board layout I did in cad must be 20 years ago and although I get the general idea I'm sure I that in parctice I know Jack(tm) !! I've been promising to do some designs but talk is cheap so I got a licence for the lattest and greatest E...
March ’13 SLUG meet is held as usual at the *** Hotel Wellington Thursday 28th @7:30 onwards. Food is available on the night. This month David Owen has kindly volunteered to bring his combat robot along and give us a talk on it’s inner workings. Sec...
Last week we had the opportunity to talk to Alex of Space Gambit in of all places Shrewsbury High street. The upshot is that we have been asked to come with a proposal for a Space Related Project. The project can be anything space related,the p...
Shropshire Linux user Group is helping to organise a Raspberry Jam event in Telford.We are expecting to run it at the local Technical College TCAT. Organisation is at an early stage currently and we need your input please comment here or onthe S...
I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s FOSDEM event in Brussels early this Feb’. It’ s an annual event started in 2001 and although aimed at developers or others involved in Open Source projects it’s open to anyone who has an interest in o...
I wanted to show how the feet were stuck on the Raspberry Pi when you build the caseand also the awesome effect that the "Florescent" Orange really kicks out !(BTW we can laser cut what ever you want in this stuff so shout !) www.youtube.com/wat...
Just a quicky before I do the full Maker Faire thing.i was fortunate enough to be next door to Universal AIr a UK firm run buy two young Lads Yuan and Henry. I was impressed by their enthusiasm and knowledge, not to mentionthe fact I could afford som...
We'll be there with Raspberry Pi and Cases and a load of our 3D printer kit,which should include a Makerbot and iModella+ hopefully one of Chris's creationsthe "HexRap". it's on at the Derby Silk Mill 3rd of June 11am-4pm. sign up here:http://ma...
I'm a big Linux fan, I play Linux, talk Linux and even get paid to work with Linuxnow I can even get the Linux T-Shirt with the Linux Foundation's 2012 T-Shirt contestthemed "Inspired by Linux". If you are inspired to contribute to open source becaus...
This little one was sent to the Edinburgh HackerLab's disscussion list.EMF is going to be a 3 Day Camping festival with subjects like 3D printing,DIYBio,electronics etc.It's on 31 August to 2nd September in Pineham Park,Milton Keynes. Sign...
A friend of mine from Edinburgh Hacklab Tom Larkworthy has done an excellent article on optical feedback for cheap robotic systems. Details on the Software and hardware been used may well be of interest to those interested in Cheap robotics and...
