Mumai – Control Anything Using your Muscles
Alvaro Villoslada designed an open-source muscle-machine to control any kind of electronic device through the myoelectric (EMG) signals. The name of this project is Mumai and it is published on hackaday.io. “The Professional EMG systems are very expensive, cumbersome and...
Continue ReadingSimple two-transistor circuit lights LEDs
Barry Tigner @ edn.com has a design idea on how to power a LED from a 1.5V battery using two easily available transistors. A previous Design Idea describes a circuit that uses an astable multivibrator to drive an LED (Reference 1). The circuit in Figure 1 uses a simpler alternative...
Continue ReadingGoogle’s quantum computer just accurately simulated a molecule for the first time
Google's engineers just achieved a milestone in quantum computing: they’ve produced the first completely scalable quantum simulation of a hydrogen molecule. by DAVID NIELD @ sciencealert.com Researchers working with the Google team were able to accurately simulate the energy of...
Continue ReadingMeasure Weights Using OpenScale from Sparkfun
Sparkfun has a simple-to-use and open source solution for measuring weight and temperature. All you need is a load cell hooked up with OpenScale. You may find a variety of high quality weight sensors to be used in this project on Flintec load cells. OpenScale uses HX711, a 24-bit...
Continue ReadingArduino Proximity Alarm
Lucas Reed @ instructables.com has build a proximity alarm using Arduino and an ultrasonic sensor from Parallax. If a nearby object is approaching then the alarm will sound and an RGB LED will light up. He writes: An ultrasonic rangefinder and Arduino microcontroller will check for...
Continue ReadingNeopixel Night Light using ATtiny85
joshua.brooks @ instructables.com describes how he build a night light using an Adafruit NeoPixel, ATtiny85 microcontroller, TSSP4038 IR receiver and some other easy available components. I'm giving some workshops in electronics in a few weeks, centered around an inexpensive, but...
Continue ReadingA1367 – Field programmable linear Hall-effect sensor IC
Allegro MicroSystems Europe has added a field programmable precision linear Hall-effect current sensor IC with features including a 240 kHz bandwidth, integrated voltage regulator, reverse battery protection, user-selectable ratiometry, and uni- or bi-directional output options. By...
Continue ReadingControlling Bus Pirate with Python
Scott Harden show us how to control the Bus Pirate with python and give us example code. After using the AVR-ISP mkII for years (actually the cheap eBay knock-offs) to program ATMEL AVR microcontrollers, today I gave the Bus Pirate a shot. Far more than just a microcontroller...
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