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Capacative Touch
Adafruit is a great resource for may electronic projects. One of my favorite parts is their focus on wearable electronics. Gizmos with LEDs and speakers have been around for a while. You can even get them from Thinkgeek. However, capacitive … Continue reading
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All the Way to the Metal
Ken Shirriff has been working hard lately. In two great reads, he presented details from the classic CPUs 6502 and 8085. Basically, what he does is that he picks apart the overflow flag of the 6502 and the ALU of … Continue reading
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SparkFun on Test Rigs
As a short follow-up on the Design for Manufacturing article by Bunnie, here is SparkFun’s take on the topic.
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Motor Driver Booster Pack
Do you have a need for speed? Or just a need to run a couple of motors? If you combine that need with a TI LaunchPad, the Motor Driver Booster Pack from Longhorn Engineer might be just for you. It … Continue reading
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Outsource Your Projects
Boingboing leads us to the first path of the great series of Bunnie Huang (who runs a great blog, by the way). This is the start of a four part series on outsourcing manufacturing. More specifically, to outsource to China, but … Continue reading
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Tiny Arduino Clone
A couple of days back, we wrote about Kimio Kosaka’s amazing freeform Arduino clone. This artist of electronics is not a one hit wonder. He has done more work around the Arduino. For instance, his one-chip clones are real works … Continue reading
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The real Pong
The classic game of pong has been reimplemented many times in different settings. For the purist, the right way of doing it is to base the replica on the original schematics. This imgur album shows how Pong is built in 74LS. … Continue reading
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Low-cost Devboard
Imagine running a course around Arduino. As soon as you start drawing a crowd, the hardware cost will be significant. Enter the Shrimp. The Shrimp is an ultra-slim, low-cost Arduino clone. Bringing the price down to about £8, almost a … Continue reading
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Amazing Freeform Arduino
Freeform, or dead bug style, electronics intrigues me. It can be the quick route for simple circuits, but to Kimio Kosaka, simplicity and ease of assembling was not the end goal. His amazing Metaboard-based design can even use shields. I think that the … Continue reading
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Build a Custom FPGA
FPGAs are monsters of flexible logic. If you have a problem that can be pipelined or run in parallel you can perform miracles. If performance isn’t your focus, you can emulate beautiful machines from the past. Over at Nick’s blog, there … Continue reading
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