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B3603 DC-DC converter Upgrade

The B3603 is an affordable constant current or constant voltage DC to DC converter.   I works great as a bench top power supply and takes 6-40VDC in and delivers 0-36VDC up to 3A. Accuracy is also...

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Robot of the week : Pick and Place machine

Brain Dorey has a nice build log about the DIY Pick and place machine he built. Pick and place machines are robotic machines which are used to place surface-mount devices. They are used a lot in the...

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Raspberry Pi B+ Dimensions and Pinout

We have a new member to the Raspberry Family. The B+ version offers More General Purpose IO pins. Double the amount of USB ports Micro SD card Better audio Lower Power Consumption Neater Form Factor...

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Robotic Dairy Farming – Introduction to the Poop And Feed Bots

Farming is changing with production at all time highs but there is always room for improvements. Introducing a new breed of robots that automate things around the farm. Related PostsRobotic Farm...

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ESP8266 – Testing if it works.

The ESP8266 is a very cheap wifi-to-serial solution for adding Wifi to electronics projects. Once its been hooked up the fun starts. A terminal emulator like Putty or Tera Term is needed to send...

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Making Safer Drones

Drones can be very unpredictable and dangerous.  Saying that, they can also be very useful in emergencies. I Swedish Swiss team has won a $1 million award for their work on the Gimball Drone. The drone...

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What goes into each board made at Sparkfun

I was interested in Automated Optical Inspection the other day and I came upon this assume video from Sparkfun, demonstrating what work goes into each board they make. I love the bit with the disco...

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Raspberry Pi CNC Board / Hat

We are happy to announce the next generation of our CNC boards. By combining a real-time CNC system (good old GRBL) and offloading less timely processes to a more powerful processor + operating system...

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Programming hundreds of Arduino Minions in one go

I am currently working on a neat project (Raspberry Pi CNC Board) where I have to program a bunch of Arduinos for each of the boards I am making. At first I did it with the Arduino IDE one board at a...

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DIY Electronic Arc Furnace

Nothing like molten metal I say. Grant Thompson from “The King of Random” show how easy it is to make an Electric Arc Furnace with readily available parts. Related PostsBuilding A Vacuum Forming...

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GRBL – How to clear EEPROM settings

I have lately been flashing a bunch of Arduino micro-controllers with GRBL and I had a small issue where an older version of GRBL’s settings were stuck in the Arduino’s EEPROM. To get around this I...

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3D Printing Cars reduces environmental impact.

Quick preview of how easy it would be to assemble a modular car frame. By using more efficient materials like light-weight carbon-fiber tubing, it reduces manufacturing cost by using less energy to...

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Arduino CNC Shield – 100% GRBL Compatable

Do it yourself CNC projects are popping up everywhere and we decided that we wanted to contribute to the growth. Here are a few of our design goals: Modular Design – We wanted to do more than just keep...

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Vagrant makes it easy to use mBed GCC Toolchains

I am a great fan of Automation and with my recent venture into Hardware manufacturing( + limited resources) the need for automation has been highlighted. In a previous post I explained how to deploy...

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Raspberry Pi Zero Footprint And Dimensions

Dimensions : 65 mm by 30 mm 4 mounting holes for M2.5 screws. Mini-HDMI Two Micro USB ports – One OTG USB and One Power USB. One Micro SD card reader. Raspberry Pi Zero Mounting holes : 58mm x 23mm...

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GRBL’s PWM functionality – How to control a laser or variable speed spindle.

As of Version 0.9, GRBL supports PWM for controlling variable spindles and lasers. (Both our Arduino CNC shield(V3.10+) and Raspberry Pi CNC Boards support the PWM functionality. ) To use the...

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Raspberry Pi CNC Challenge

UPDATE : Raspberry Pi CNC Challenge Update Hi everyone… I’m looking for help here. I am trying to improve the Raspberry Pi CNC board. I am willing to give away 10 pre-released Raspberry Pi CNC boards...

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Raspberry Pi CNC Challenge – Update

First of all thank you to all who responded to the  Raspberry Pi CNC challenge. We received plenty of emails with amazing projects. Entries closed on the weekend and it was pretty hard to pick....

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Electric Cars Vs future of the Nurburg Ring

I am “quietly” enjoying the future of automobiles. Serious I love the sound the next generation of speeding cars are making…. The NextEV Nio EP9 is a stunning example of where we are heading. +1300HP...

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NANO-ARM : Arduino Zero Compatible but in Arduino Nano Form Factor

We loved Arduino Nano’s but always wanted a bit more performance and memory. So we decided to create a Arduino Nano compatible board but with an upgrade micro-controller that is similar to an Arduino...

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