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Masterpiece of Soldering: You Won’t Believe This Handmade Electronic Clock

Masterpiece of Soldering: You Won’t Believe This Handmade Electronic Clock

This clock not only displays the time, but all of the components you would see in a wristwatch microchip if viewed under a microscope.

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CUI32Stem

The Create USB Interface and GROVE Sensor Platform

Here’s another interesting physical computing platform; the PIC-based Create USB Interface. The original design was made by Dan Overholt as a bridge between computer and world for musical and artistic applications. Seeed Studio has an updated design called the CUI32Stem, which has been tweaked to work well with the thirty-something sensors and actuators in their […]

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Yuri Zupancic’s Microchip Paintings

Yuri Zupancic’s Microchip Paintings

Perfect for the electronic engineer with an appreciation for art, these awesome Microchip paintings are created by Yuri Zupancic. [via CRAFT via Dudecraft]

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Circuit Skills: Perfboard Prototyping, sponsored by Jameco Electronics

Circuit Skills: Perfboard Prototyping, sponsored by Jameco Electronics

[Note: Jameco is currently offering all the parts I used in this video as a perfboard prototyping kit — just add wire & solder. ] When you think “DIY electronics,” one of the first images that likely comes to mind is of parts and wire soldered to a standard piece of perforated circuit board — […]

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