Check out this cool 3D Printed Stepper Motor that Christopher Hawkins made. You can see in the video that it can move quite quickly and not loose any steps.
Published: May 10th, 2013
You can purchase some macro lenses for your phone camera but with a bit of work and a spare LED lens you can make your own. Only thing to make sure is that the LED lens is high quality so that there arent any bubbles or other imperfections in it which would cause image distortion.
Published: May 10th, 2013
Rich Olson shows us how he was able to laser etch the trace pattern onto some copper clad PCB using his laser cutter so that he could later chemical etch the unwanted copper away.
Published: May 10th, 2013
Jiayuan Wang and Sheng Zhang from Cornell University built this Wireless Voice-Controllable Smart Home Project for their ECE 4760 Final Project.
Published: May 10th, 2013
There are many ways of putting real world data to webserver. You can use third party services like cosm. But if you do like to keep everything under your control then do it simple way.
Published: May 7th, 2013
Fireflies are interesting creatures that glow in dark due to biochemical reactions. They come in special season time and stay for a really short time period (probably while mating).
Published: April 29th, 2013
It may seem that playing videos with sound using ARM Cortex microcontroller is a tricky, but it seems possible using few smart techniques. Vinod has been playing with video playback some time.
Published: April 29th, 2013
It seems that Raspberry Pi continuously is loosing the cheapest Linux board positions. After BeagleBoard black has been announced, you may thing twice before purchasing your next or first Linux based development board.
Published: April 29th, 2013
Wrist watch first of all is an accessory which is always with you. So you may want it to be unique, convenient, useful and of course hackable/programmable.
Published: April 29th, 2013
BLDC (BrusheLess Direct Current) motors are used in many areas. Few that come in to the head are PC hard drive drum spinners, RF flying models like quadcopters, robots.
Published: April 29th, 2013