Technology

Supercapacitor contest winners

Supercapacitor contest winners

Windell writes – “A few weeks ago I started a tiny contest, where the challenge was to come up with the best project idea involving supercapacitors. A number of regular Make forum participants submitted entries, and I suspect that a lot of the other (quiet) participants here would be interested to see some of the […]

LEGO + Microsoft robotics

LEGO + Microsoft robotics

Laura from on10 has a new video up with LEGO’s new NXT robotics kit – “Lego visited the Redmond Campus of Microsoft to show off their newest home robotics kit, the Lego Mindstorm NXT. They talked about the collaboration between their products and our very own Microsoft Robotics Studio…” – Link. Related: LEGO NXT – […]

Sixteen-Point digital compass

Sixteen-Point digital compass

Mac writes – “I wanted to add a digital compass to my robot, as part of my dead reckoning experiments. I only had four bits for input to read a compass. The Dinsmore 1490 uses four bit to report eight compass points, which is inefficient (three bits are sufficient). While the Dinsmore 1490 is inexpensive […]

TV Remote control decoder kit

TV Remote control decoder kit

Looks like if you’re a member of the ARRL you can order this kit, I’ll see what I can dig up… – “The ARRL Amateur Radio Education and Technology Program has cooked up a packaged project that detects and decodes the infrared messages from a TV remote. You probably have a number of them around […]