A day later I learn from a page on the Seattle Robotics Society’s web newsletter, Encoder, that I can in fact solder those tiny bug sized IC’s that left me itchy yesterday. In fact I can do it using a toaster oven and a special ordered compound! It looks like a fun experiment, but unfortunately at this point [...]
An artist named Niklas Roy created this beautiful object called Grafikdemo.
Notice how the green wire mesh teapot is slightly off screen? That’s because it’s not a visual display, it’s a real wire mesh teapot! Roy explains his process in an interview on Gizmodo:
When I started to build it, it was funny to recognizebthat I did [...]
I have the cycles of the washing machine measured at last. I am ready to build a circuit.
I thought I would start with the easiest one first. All it does is light an LED when a load of almost any kind comes through the wire. The voltage just has to make it through resistor R5 [...]
Forget about that claw I posted about earlier. It looks cool but I couldn’t find a multimeter to work with it. The first one I purchased for $10 that didn’t have a “range” indicated in the claw’s specs. as you know. I went to Discount Builders with the claw’s booklet. It says:
The 72-555 is designed [...]
Spring break has begun and this is the time for maximum project activity. I have, I think most of the supplies for the amp reader device, but not quite. If I finish it, I can use the rest of the time up until May to work on the displays.
I bought a cheap-o $10 multimeter and [...]
