Randofo writes – An H-bridge is a type of circuit that you can use to get a reversible DC motor to spin both clockwise and counterclockwise. In other words, this circuit allows you to quickly reverse the direction a motor is spinning by using a switch or controller chip to change its direction. I’m going […]
Peter writes – I love to read in bed. This is one of the true pleasures in my life, and I begin and end every day doing it. One day, I was reading an article about living off-the-grid, which seemed like a neat idea, but also a real stretch for a production home suburbanite like […]
Here’s a neat AVR – GPS – cell phone tracker project… This project is about GPS tracing. it works as follows: – GPS traces the position of the device via satelite – Somebody (who wants to know the position) calls the number of the GSM-Module – The Microcontroller noticed the call and ask the position […]
Remember those edible robots we posted up? Here’s another, a vegetable based giant cucumber robot hand!- Link.
Wikipedia periodically publishes full data dumps of the encyclopedia’s content. If you wanted to make your own copy of the Wikipedia site for offline viewing, you’d typically convert and import that content into MySQL using MediaWiki’s importDump.php utility. The initial import process can take over a day. Building the indexes for searching articles takes even […]
There’s a new DIY self balancing transpo in town… a student-made DIY Segway… project details and more here – Link.
Pete Warden wrote in about his completion of the IE port of the GoogleHotKeys (formerly PeteSearch) browser plugin. In addition to the blog posts covering the port I’ve also put together a public wiki with full documentation on creating your own Internet Explorer extensions, and there’s the full source code for the completed plugin for […]
