Nothing like molten metal I say. Grant Thompson from “The King of Random” show how easy it is to make an Electric Arc Furnace with readily available parts.
Programming hundreds of Arduino Minions in one go
I am currently working on a neat project (Raspberry Pi CNC Board) where I have to program a bunch of Arduinos for each of the boards I am making. At first I did it with the Arduino IDE one board at a time but that was very tedious and required me to sometime change the … Read More →
Raspberry Pi CNC Board / Hat
We are happy to announce the next generation of our CNC boards. By combining a real-time CNC system (good old GRBL) and offloading less timely processes to a more powerful processor + operating system we have created a much more flexible but capable solution. To show some of the possibilities we have created a Web … Read More →
What goes into each board made at Sparkfun
I was interested in Automated Optical Inspection the other day and I came upon this assume video from Sparkfun, demonstrating what work goes into each board they make. I love the bit with the disco lights and the dishwasher… 🙂
Making Safer Drones
Drones can be very unpredictable and dangerous. Saying that, they can also be very useful in emergencies. I Swedish Swiss team has won a $1 million award for their work on the Gimball Drone. The drone is capable of flying into objects without breaking or damaging other objects. More Links: Drone for good Flyability Gimball … Read More →
ESP8266 – Testing if it works.
The ESP8266 is a very cheap wifi-to-serial solution for adding Wifi to electronics projects. Once its been hooked up the fun starts. A terminal emulator like Putty or Tera Term is needed to send commands to the module. To interact with the module it needs to receive AT command via its serial pins. The simplest … Read More →
Robotic Dairy Farming – Introduction to the Poop And Feed Bots
Farming is changing with production at all time highs but there is always room for improvements. Introducing a new breed of robots that automate things around the farm.
Raspberry Pi B+ Dimensions and Pinout
We have a new member to the Raspberry Family. The B+ version offers More General Purpose IO pins. Double the amount of USB ports Micro SD card Better audio Lower Power Consumption Neater Form Factor Dimensions of the Raspberry Pi B+ are below With a 40-pin breakout socket it offers a lot more than … Read More →
Robot of the week : Pick and Place machine
Brain Dorey has a nice build log about the DIY Pick and place machine he built. Pick and place machines are robotic machines which are used to place surface-mount devices. They are used a lot in the electronics industry. Some are also used for stacking and packing manufactured goods. The video below is a Pick and Place at … Read More →
Machine of the week : CNC Plasma Cutter
I recently found a nice build log about setting up a CNC Plasma Cutter. http://cncplasmabuild.com/buidpage18.html Plasma cutters uses a high-frequency, high-voltage spark to ionize the air through the torch head and initiate an arc that can cut thick plates of steel.
