ELECTRIC SKILLET REFLOW SOLDERING guide
It’s no secret that we’re bizarrely drawn to macro videos showing solder paste during the reflow process. This electric skillet reflow guide supplies the fix we’ve been jonesin’ for while including some valuable ideas for first-timers and veterans alike. Not sure what we’re talking about? look at the grey paste at the top of this image. …
ATLAS HUMANOID ROBOT STANDING ON HIS own
Boston Dynamics likes to show off… which is great since we like to see the frightening looking robots they come up with. This is Atlas, it’s the culmination of their humanoid robotics research. As part of the unveiling video they include a advancement process montage which is rather pleasurable to view. You ought to keep …
THE MONOLITH BRINGS THE boom TO maker FAIRE
[Ross Fish], [Darcy Neal], [Ben Davis], and [Paul Stoffregen] created “the Monolith”, an interactive synth sculpture designed to showcase capabilities of the Teensy 3.6 microcontroller. The Monolith consists of a clear acrylic box covered in LED-lit arcade buttons. The forty buttons in front serve as an 8-step sequencer with five different voices, while touch sensors on the left …
SELF-CONTAINED TIME-LAPSE RIG BRAVES aspects FROM THIRTY FEET
point of view is a bit difficult to grasp in this image, however all of this hardware is mounted thirty feet above the ground. This time-lapse photography box makes utilize of the sun as well as a Raspberry Pi to file the goings on. The rig is one of three that were developed by [Patty Chuck] to …
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GAME young boy CARTRIDGE EMULATOR uses STM32
game young boys may be old tech, but they still offer challenges to modern hackers. [Dhole] has come up with a cartridge emulator which uses an STMicroelectronics STM32F4 discovery board to do all the work. until now, many flash cartridges used programmable logic devices, either CPLDs or FPGAs to deal with the high-speed logic requirements. …
BUILDING A pick and place WITH 3D printed parts
For the last few months, [HeliumFrog] has been building a SCARA bot to serve as the basis for a pick and place machine. somewhat amazingly, this is the first robot of its kind to be printed on a 3D printer. A SCARA-type robot is an articulated arm perfectly suited for transferring components from tubes and reels …
THE small APPLE IIE THAT RUNS ON C.H.I.P.
[Cupcakus]’s small Apple IIe should certainly be a contender for the smallest computer running an Apple II emulator. We’d discussed it a few months ago in a links post when it had been posted to a forum along with a few videos of it in action, but now popular YouTube channel, [Tested], has released a …
MAKE A PLOTTER OUT OF RULERS
Instructables individual [lingib] made a creative as well as low-cost pen arm plotter that utilizes plastic rulers for arms. An inspiring sight for any individual without a lot of robot parts lying around, The electronics are straightforward, with an Arduino UNO as well as a pair of simple motorists to manage NEMA17 stepper motors linked …
LEAP movement CONTROLS HEXAPOD WITH HAND SIGNALS
moving your hand makes this hexapod dance like a stringless marionette. Okay, so there’s obviously one string which is really a cable however you understand what we mean. The gadget on the floor is a leap movement sensor which is monitoring [Queron Williams’] hand gestures. This is done utilizing a Processing library which leverages the leap …
QTLEDTEST – software TO assess OLED displays
A few days ago we featured the USBPass, an offline password keeper made with very few components. At the end of our write-up we discussed that [Josh] was already working on another version of his hardware, which involved adding an OLED screen to the platform. To help him pick one he created QtLedTest, a Qt-based tool …