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. …
WHAT LIES WITHIN: SMT INDUCTOR TEARDOWN
ever question what’s inside a surface-mount inductor? question no more as you view this SMT inductor teardown video. “Teardown” isn’t truly precise here, at least by the basic of [electronupdate]’s other element teardowns, like his looks inside LED light bulbs and das blinkenlights. “Rubdown” is more like it here, since what starts out as a rather solid looking …
ROBOT LIVES IN YOUR garden and EATS THE WEEDS
You can’t deny the appeal of gardening. Whether it’s a productive patch of vegetables or a flower bed to pleasure the senses, the effort put into gardening is amply rewarded. nobody seems to like the weeding, though — well, almost nobody; I find it quite relaxing. but if you’re not willing to get down and dirty with …
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 …
HOW-TO: VMWARE player adjustment
last week the totally free VMware player was released. It lets you run online machines, however not produce them. [Faileas] contributed today’s how-to for producing your own online machines. Programs needed to bring out hack: Copy of VMware Player Browser appliance or one more online machine(browser appliance is the smallest one, by size, as well …
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 …
IPOD video recap
My 5G iPod arrived yesterday. We previously talked about automatically converting downloaded TV to iPod video. I had found [mike]’s comment odd since it said the iPod doesn’t support Videora’s H.264. odd because I followed Videora’s conversion guide and that’s the setting they used. Well, it’s true. I was successful using the “SP/320×240/768KbpsStereo/128Kbps” setting Mike …
FIRST look AT ABC: basic connections
[Alberto Piganti], aka [pighixxx] has been making circuit diagram art for a few years now, and has just come out with a book that’s available on Kickstarter. He sent us a copy to review, and we spent an hour or so with a refreshing beverage and a binder full of beautiful circuit diagrams. It doesn’t …
THIS GPS LOGGER IS SO SMALL…
exactly how little is it? two things ought to provide you a great sense of scale, the SD card slot on the lower right, as well as the slide switch on the upper left. This minuscule module is an all-in-one GPS logger which [J3tstream] built. Main system manage is offered by a Teens 2.0 board. If you …
FINALLY, AN ANIMATED GIF LIGHT PAINTER
Light painting, or taking a photo of a moving RGB LED strip with a extremely long exposure, is the application du jour of Arduinos, photography, as well as bright, glowey, vibrant things. Hackaday alumnus [Phil Burgess] has come up with the very best tutorial for light painting we’ve seen. It’s such a great setup, it can be …