The most important debugging tool in any E.E.’s toolbox is a trusty multimeter. A multimeter can measure continuity, resistance, voltage and sometimes even current, capacitance, temperature, etc. It’s a swiss army knife for geeks! Here’s a great resistance tutorial – Link & more. Related: Multimeters – Link.
This is tasty, robots you can eat… – Edible Robotics represents a sea change in thinking and action regarding our relationship with our friendly robot servants. Our goal in exploring this new territory is to report back from the frontier with our discoveries and observations in the hopes that others who follow will not fall […]
Huh, I need to check this out a bit more… but take a look at this DIY Homemade mini plasma gun (hand held Tesla Coil turns a light bulb into a plasma globe)… – Link.
David from uC Hobby writes: How-to sort a 1 pound grab-bag of small electronic components. I sort through one of the $1 grab-bags I purchased at the Austin Summer fest 2007 HAM meet up. The reason these grab-bags are cheap is that you have to do a lot of work to make the collection of […]
Here’s a cheap plotter for graphs, PCBs and masks for etching metal plates, thanks Alex – Link & translated site.
David writes in – How-to sort a 1 pound grab-bag of small electronic components. I sort through one of the $1 grab-bags I purchased at the Austin Summer fest 2007 HAM meet up. The reason these grab-bags are cheap is that you have to do a lot of work to make the collection of parts […]
Dan has a cool low cost Arduino based galvanostat/potentiostat, he writes – What? The Ardustat is my open source successor to Jonny Galvo. It uses a standard USB-Arduino unit with a custom designed daughterboard to provide: * A galvanostat with a current range from .1 µA to 10 mA * A potentiostat with a potential […]
