Amateur Scientist: Listening to Light
Over the years I’ve designed many electronic circuits that transform steady (DC) or modulated (AC) beams of light into sound. These circuits have many applications, some of which are described here.
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Open Source Hardware Certifications: December and January
These Open Source Hardware projects gained certification in December of 2023 and January of 2024
Meet The Maker: Chloe and Aimee Palmer of ChloeSaurusCrafts
Meet Chloe and Aimee, the creative force behind ChloeSaurusCrafts!
This Knife Throwing Machine Guarantees A Bullseye
Knife throwing is both an art and a skill that’s difficult to master. It takes both hand-eye coordination and just the right spin to embed the knife into a target, and the longer the distance, the more power and spin are needed. While movies make it look easy, in reality, it’s a difficult concept, but […]
Kickstarter Companion Bots, Past and Present
There have been so many great companion bot ideas brought to kickstarter. Lets check some out!
Squishy Circuits: The Soft Matrix
Make soft touch
pads and panels in
conductive fabric to
control wearables,
LEDs, and more
Smarter Serial Communications with WiSer
Surely you’ve been there: you need to capture serial output from a microcontroller or other device, so you reach for a PL2303 or CP210x or FT232RL-based USB-to-TTL serial cable (if you can remember where you put the damn thing after you last used it!) and…realize you don’t have the drivers installed on the computer you […]
