chmod775 on Hackaday.io designed this simple 3D Printed USB Connector compatible with PCBs from OSH Park:
I’ve made this 3D USB Connector because I want to remove the chunky and complex standard metal USB Connector from my new upcoming project.
The design it’s made to be simple and with the height reference from the OSHP ark PCB’s.
From Orlando Hoilett of Calvary Engineering on Hackaday.io:
A sweet Arduino shield with a ton of cool sensors for physiological parameters such as heart rate and breathing rate
The features include:
The design files and source code are available on GitHub:
CalvEngIO/BiomedShield
Create fun STEM and STEAM electronics projects with parts delivered to your door.
Crazy Circuits is a non-soldering electronic learning platform that allows people to create circuits from almost any material they can imagine. Crazy Circuits are designed to pop onto LEGO™ bricks, enabling your LEGO™ creations to shine, move, and make noise. Use Crazy Circuits to construct paper crafts with conductive tape, use conductive thread for sewing, and create art with conductive inks and paints. You can even program sketches with Arduino compatible Crazy Circuits boards. No matter what you want to build, Crazy Circuits brings it all together.
It’s official, World Create Day is on April 22nd. Get together with hackers in your area and create something! This is best way to meet all the Hackaday readers in your area, and a great excuse to carve out a few hours of your busy life to have fun working on a project.
Darcy Neal will lead a workshop in Chicago on building your own synthesizer:
https://www.meetup.com/Solder-Stitch-And-Code/events/238959615/
We’ll learn about some of the building blocks of creating a synthesizer using the 4046 VCO and the classic 40106 CMOS ICs. The 4046 is a well documented and powerful IC that can be turned into a modular synth voice with just a few added components. Participants will learn to solder together their own prototyping PCB, build a circuit on a breadboard from a schematic, experiment with sensors, and learn the basics about how to produce custom circuit boards using design software like Kicad and Fritzing. No experience is necessary, but basic electronic knowledge or a strong interest in synths will be helpful.
Blake Ramsdell has posted a new batch of hand-drawn PCB artwork on Hackaday.io:
David I. Herman made some impressive new PCB painting pieces, demonstrating subtleties in shading and Art Nouveau inspiration, precision produced by OSH Park
We are trying to figure out what direction to take this blend of technology and art — should we offer pieces for sale, or offer a service for making your own pieces from your own artwork, for instance. We’re certainly going to continue to explore it from a technology and art creative point of view. If you feel inclined, please take a moment to leave a comment, we are interested in your feedback!
This breakout board designed in KiCad makes it easy to put a rotary encoder and pull-up resistors on a breadboard. (Thanks to Enrico for the idea to add pull-up resistors). The footprints on the back are meant for 1206 SMD resistors. I choose 1K Ohm resistors, marked 102, when I assembled this board.
Additional photos are available in the GitHub repo’s images directory and in a Google Photos gallery.
Here is the OSH Park shared project for the board:
The KiCad design files are available on GitHub:
pdp7/rotary-encoder-breakout
I used this KiCad symbol and footprint by Mike Cousins for a Sparkfun rotary encoder:
mcous/kicad-lib
I’ve verified that these rotary encoders fit:
I wrote this Arduino sketch to run on the Teensy 3.2. The brightness of one LED is controlled by the rotary encoder knob. The other LED is turns on when the rotary encoder knob is pressed down:
rotary-encoder-test.ino
Here’s a video of the breakout board being used with a Bourns PEC12R-4220F-S0024 and Teensy 3.2:
Create your own interactive Light elements by soldering basic shapes, such as triangle, square, pentagon and hexagon to create an interactive LED sculpture.
Here’s a video of the Trixel LED boards in action:
The design files are available on GitHub:
Arkadi_Raf has shared the boards on OSH Park:
Patrick Van Oosterwijck created an audio BLE beacon that can be activated by the vision impaired to find exact locations of doorways, bus stops, crosswalks, and more:
The BLE module is configured as an iBeacon and allows connections. It has a battery service and an “Immediate Alert” (AKA “Find me”) service.
Patrick used the following to build the prototype:
xorbit has shared the booster for loud piezo beeper on OSH Park:
Pidgeon 1 on Crowd Supply is a sub-GHz radio with 500 mW transmission power, RS485 networking interface and a STM32F0 microcontroller:
No more restrictions from high level software! Access the lowest level of digital radio transmission with this programmable sub-GHz wireless module.
Hardware Specifications:
OSH Park 