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Since I’m in Osaka today, there will be no Wednesday update. I’d just like to take this opportunity to show the wiring involved in charging my phone. The green wire at the bottom of the image is the grounding…. Since … Continue reading →

Some components are found in every design, others are more rare. I’ve met designers claiming that digital constructions not including a PIC must be broken or trivial enough to implement using a single PIC. Still, there are some unique components … Continue reading →

I thought that I ran into an extruder issue yesterday evening. The filament simply got stuck. However, looking at the filament shown in the picture, you can see that the plastic thickens just before (to the left of) the spot … Continue reading →

Past computers did not come with quick start sheets or awkwardly worded manuals that barely scratched the surface of the product. They came with programming manuals, listings of memory maps, I/O registers, schematics and everything else the tinkering engineer might rely on. … Continue reading →

The end of 2011 is approaching and we at Digital Fanatics wish to thank you all for reading. The news will start flowing again on the other side of the New Years Eve parties. See you all again in January … Continue reading →

The Gertboard, by Gert van Loo, is introduced over at the Pi-site blog. It is an extension board for all the tinkerers out there. It provides LEDs, GPIO, sensor inputs and motor drives. The plan is to sell it alongside … Continue reading →

How can one understand the present? By studying the past! My copy of The Complete Historically Brewed arrived. As some might know, I’m a collector of old machined. My goal is to have working machines representing most of the major … Continue reading →

The blog Built to Spec has a story on how to hack a standard RC servo into a brushed DC motor controlled. Basically, the trick is to fool the servo logic into believing that the servo is constantly centered. This … Continue reading →

The open source movement, which I disrespectfully use as a term for the free software movement, has gone from a obscure group of nerds to the force powering smart-phones, the internet and large parts of our lifes. Taking away the … Continue reading →

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