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Capacitive discharge spot welder update
It seems one of our commenters took great umbrage with [PodeCoet] not documenting his capacitive discharge cutting properly. [PodeCoet] had been waiting till he got the full spot welder working befor… more →
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Capacitive discharge spot welder update
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Eliot Phillips wrote 4 hours ago: It seems one of our commenters took great umbrage with [PodeCoet] not documenting his capacitive di … more →
Lego modded antenna tuner
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Steve Watkins wrote 2 days ago: This antenna tuner is controlled remotely using geared motors and legos. The tuner needed to be clo … more →
SparkFun open-sources latest kits
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Zach Banks wrote 3 days ago: SparkFun has started to release some of their kits as open-source hardware. Projects such as ClockI … more →
How-to: Bus Pirate probe cable
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Ian Lesnet wrote 3 days ago: Update, Saturday July 4th, 2009: All preorders are closed. A probe cable makes it easy to connect t … more →
T.G.I.M.B.O.E.J. turns one
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Caleb Kraft wrote 3 days ago: The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk, or T.G.I.M.B.O.E.J. has turned one. In the la … more →
Mixed voltage interfacing with the Bus Pirate
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Ian Lesnet wrote 4 days ago: Most of the parts we use operate at 3.3volts, but we still run into a lot of old 5volt stuff, and a … more →
Parts: SPI EEPROM (25AA/25LC)
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Ian Lesnet wrote 5 days ago: Microchip’s 25AA/25LC EEPROMs are data storage chips with a simple 3-wire interface. The 25AA … more →
Motors and Microcontrollers 101
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Gerrit Coetzee wrote 6 days ago: [Humberto] from NerdKits sends in the newest addition to their excellent collection of videos. … more →
Parts: ShiftBrite RGB LED module (A6281)
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Ian Lesnet wrote 6 days ago: Macetech’s ShiftBrite is a high-power RGB LED coupled with an Allegro A6281 backpack. The A62 … more →
iDisplay, webcam multitouch
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Eliot Phillips wrote 1 week ago: Embedded above is an interesting multitouch demo by [Lahiru]. The goal of the project was to fi … more →
Parts: I2C real-time clock calendar (PCF8563)
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Ian Lesnet wrote 1 week ago: The PCF8563 is a real-time clock/calendar/alarm chip with an I2C interface. This would be useful in … more →
EVIC engine
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Steve Watkins wrote 1 week ago: The EVIC is a computer controlled internal combustion engine, utilizing a cam less solenoid actuate … more →
The holy toaster kit
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Steve Watkins wrote 1 week ago: The holy toaster is an open source kit to put Jesus on your toast, complete with cost breakdown and … more →
How-to: Build your own spot welder
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Steve Watkins wrote 1 week ago: Spot welders are used in the fabrication of automobiles, PC cases, power supplies, microwave ovens, … more →
Adafruit introduces the Sensor Pack 900
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Nick Caiello wrote 1 week ago: Our friends over [adafruit] recently released the Sensor Pack 900, a collection of parts for anyone … more →
Repair a Malfunctioning LCD
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Nick Caiello wrote 2 weeks ago: When most people encounter dead pixels on an LCD text display, they figure that the display is dead … more →
Microcontroller cheat sheet
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Eliot Phillips wrote 2 weeks ago: [Alex] put together this handy cheat sheet to make pinout lookups much quicker. It covers the most … more →
Bolt-action coil gun
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Eliot Phillips wrote 2 weeks ago: TechEBlog has posted a few pictures of a student constructed coil gun. It’s bolt-action and i … more →
Slowloris HTTP denial of service
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Zach Banks wrote 2 weeks ago: [RSnake] has developed a denial of service technique that can take down servers more effectively. T … more →
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