Designing a simple and cheap temperature logger
pickandplace.wordpress.com writes: I started with making the TMP102 temperature sensor work. Nothing to say in particular, it’s just an other I2C-small-package-sensor. Or rather SMBus, but apart from the minimum speed clock requirements on the SMBus, the two protocols are...
Continue ReadingConductivity Shield for Arduino Uno
by PyroCat @ elektormagazine.com: Conductivity is the ability of a material to transfer electrons. It is the opposite of the concept of resistivity which is well known to electricians. However, while we are used to address the topic of conductivity in the field of electronics, things...
Continue ReadingControl AC Voltages Safely And Easily with Sugar Device
Sugar Device is a tool designed to control AC Voltage and it promises to change the way you control AC applications forever. Sugar team is targeting hobbyists, students, teachers and engineers to push their application to the next level, since it makes AC control easy, safe and...
Continue ReadingBlue IR: Build your own universal remote
Sarunas built this device to replace a bunch of different remote controls with a smart phone. Controlling TV, HiFi, DLP and similar IR controllable stuff is easy and fun from a smart phone using previously built smart remote, until it runs out of battery. Despite that Bluetooth Low...
Continue ReadingPanelizing made easy in Eagle
Sjaak shared a tip for panelizing PCB boards in Eagle: Panelizing is done by machining a slot between two or more boards, but keep them attached by a small amount of PCB material (mousebites). I used to do it by hand: generated all the schematics into multiple sheets and then route...
Continue ReadingESP8266 PlaneSpotter
squix78 @ blog.squix.org has published his latest project. After many hours of work I’m very happy to finally publish all the sources for the ESP8266 PlaneSpotter project. It is not yet really in a V1.0.0 state but I’m sure with the help of the community it will quickly get...
Continue ReadingSmartPID, The New Open Platform For Your Projects
ARZAMAN Smart Engineering is a small innovative Italian startup company that develops smart hi-tech solutions, by working on specific ideas for a specific hobbyist market. ARZMAN has just launched a new product: SmartPID! SmartPID Controller is a hi-tech product that facilitates...
Continue ReadingControl a stepper motor using Raspberry Pi
Here is a nice tutorial @ raspberrypi.org on how to control a DC motor using Python. In this guide, you'll be controlling two motors from your Raspberry Pi using Python on the desktop. First, it's best just to learn how to control the motor. Then, once you have it working, you could...
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