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Reading Time: 2 minutesMark Rober isn’t just a talented mechanical engineer and entertaining personality, he is also something of a champion of justice for the common man. He’s already proved that several times with his famous yearly porch pirate-targeted pranks, but now he’s taking on the corrupt fat cats running arcades for children. Those arcades are often full […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesNighttime photography, and especially astrophotography, requires very long exposure. To get a good picture of the stars, you might leave the shutter open for several minutes. That gives nature plenty of time to produce dew on your lens, which can ruin the photo. The solution is a lens heater, but running that heater all night […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesMechanical advantage is arguably the most important engineering concept that humanity has ever learned to harness. By converting distance, like the length of a lever or rotations of a gear, into torque (and vice versa) we can overcome almost any physical challenge. But that distance can be an issue. For example, if you have an […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Boak’s SB116 is a TI Programmer-inspired DIY calculator Arduino Team — September 13th, 2022 Many types of calculators exist beyond those basic models that everyone used in elementary school. The most common is the scientific calculator, including the iconic Texas Instruments TI-83. Programmer’s calculators contain buttons and functionality designed to help with coding, with […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Boak’s SB116 is a TI Programmer-inspired DIY calculator Arduino Team — September 13th, 2022 Many types of calculators exist beyond those basic models that everyone used in elementary school. The most common is the scientific calculator, including the iconic Texas Instruments TI-83. Programmer’s calculators contain buttons and functionality designed to help with coding, with […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Boak’s SB116 is a TI Programmer-inspired DIY calculator Arduino Team — September 13th, 2022 Many types of calculators exist beyond those basic models that everyone used in elementary school. The most common is the scientific calculator, including the iconic Texas Instruments TI-83. Programmer’s calculators contain buttons and functionality designed to help with coding, with […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — September 5th, 2022 Many products require the use of wire harnesses, which are essentially bundles of cabling that connect one subsystem to another, such as a car engine’s sensors to the ECU. DIY projects can also find themselves needing one, but having to manage the wiring without tangles or unwanted bends can […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 24th, 2022 Display technology, from cathode-ray tubes to LCD screens, exists to convey information to humans visually and it does that very well. But the lack of physical presence makes visual displays useless for almost everything else. The blind can’t feel pixels and computers need resource-intensive algorithms to make sense of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 22nd, 2022 A pantograph is a machine that lets an artist copy an image by tracing the original. Traditional mechanical pantographs use a complex linkage system to move the output pen relative to the stylus. While 1:1 pantographs do serve a purpose, the real value comes from a pantograph’s ability to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 16th, 2022 Digital cameras work by letting light through a lens onto a sensor composed of photosites, each with a photodiode that outputs a signal relative to the brightness of the light. Modern digital camera sensors have millions of photosites, each of which contains a microscopic photodiode. The number of pixels […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 8th, 2022 All digital communication ultimately comes down to transmitting ones and zeroes, but there are many ways to achieve that. One can encode that binary data as modulation in a radio signal or simply pulse electricity through a wire. But one of the most interesting methods is optical. Flashing a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 5th, 2022 AC (alternating current) meters are useful tools for measuring power draw. One might use an AC meter to monitor the power consumption of their devices and appliances with the goal of lowering their energy bill. Makers in particular can benefit from AC meters to learn about the power consumption […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 27th, 2022 GPS is perfect for navigating roads, because that doesn’t require much precision. But GPS is only accurate to several meters, which means that it is unsuitable for applications that require more precise positioning. GPS RTK (real-time kinematic) systems can achieve much greater accuracy, but they are complex and require […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 25th, 2022 In typical applications, the optimal mirror is as flat as possible. The flatter the mirror, the less optical distortion it imparts onto the reflected “image.” Distortion isn’t often desirable, so precision mirror manufacturers take great pains to manufacture ultra-flat mirrors. But distortion is sometimes a good thing, such as […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 25th, 2022 In the world of computing, many interfaces utilize a primary/secondary model of asymmetric communication, in which a primary host device controls one or more secondary client devices. This model is, for example, common among PATA and SATA hard drive arrangements. It is also common in clock networks, with a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe brand new Nano Screw Terminal Adapter turns up the speed on your prototyping efforts by giving you a fast, reliable way to hook up your boards. This awesome add-on is exactly what seasoned makers have been crying out for, and is now available from the Arduino Store. Let’s take a look at this mini […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 13th, 2022 For a time in the late 1990s and early 2000s, PDAs (personal digital assistants) were quite popular. But smartphones made PDAs obsolete, as even early models had far more functionality. Many of today’s microcontrollers have performance similar to early PDAs and Volos took advantage of that to build an […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 12th, 2022 Some vintage computer keyboards, especially units like the IBM Model M, are still quite desirable. Usually they’re popular among mechanical keyboard or retro computing enthusiasts who want period-correct hardware. YouTuber Midwest Cyberpunk had thousands of these old keyboards and needed a way to test them. So he built this […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 6th, 2022 Rob Cai over on Instructables has created his own version of the classic video game Space Invaders using an Arduino Nano. However, unlike most other projects that would typically incorporate some kind of LCD or OLED screen, he chose to use a small black and white cathode ray tube (CRT) display recovered from […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 17th, 2022 Inspired by his Christmas tree’s RGB lights, Brett Haddoak had the idea to turn his now-wife Rachelle’s wedding dress into something out of the classic children’s movie Sleeping Beauty by embedding a series of RGB LED strips that would elegantly illuminate it just like Princess Aurora’s. At first, Haddoak chose to simply take […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 9th, 2022 Robots are capable of far more precise and accurate motion than humans are. That is great when you want a robot to assemble a PCB or perform heart surgery. But it’s a problem when you want robots do something creative — they’re just too perfect. The lack of human-introduced […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 8th, 2022 For the last 50 years, Ovidiu’s Romanian village has relied on a small water source located at a spring, but due to increased droughts, they have since been dependent on an additional well. So far, the process of switching on the pump to refill the main reservoir has been done […]