What is the Tinusaur project about? Here we will explain it to you step-by-step.
Author: fustini
Internet of Fidget Spinners
Brian Benchoff writes on Hackaday:
Hackaday Prize Entry: Internet of Fidget Spinners
Last week, everyone on Hackaday.io was busy getting their four project logs and illustrations ready for the last call in this round of the Hackaday Prize. These projects are the best of what the Internet of Things has to offer because this is the Internet of Useful things [..]
This is a PoV fidget spinner, which means the leading edges of this tricorn spinner are bedazzled with APA102 LEDs. Persistence-of-vision toys are as old as Hackaday, and the entire idea of a fidget spinner is to spin, so this at least makes sense.
Find out more on the Hackaday.io project page by Matthias:
IoT POV Fidget Spinner
A WiFi fidget spinner, taken from concept to ordering parts in one weekend
The KiCad design files are available on GitHub:
m-byte/fidget-pov
matthias has shared the board on OSH Park:
IoT POV Fidget Spinner (192a97b)
OSH Park sponsors the FOSSi Foundation
The Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) Foundation fosters open source semiconductor design and we’re proud to have become a sponsor! Julius Baxter writes on the FOSSi Foundation blog:
OSH Park sponsors the FOSSi Foundation
We are pleased to announce that OSH Park, the purveyors of perfect purple PCBs, have become sponsors of the FOSSi Foundation’s activities. We are very grateful for their support and would like to recognize this by listing them on our Sponsors page at the Bronze tier.
We are actively looking for sponsors for the Foundation, if you’re interested in learning more about our activities and why we are looking for sponsorship, then please visit our sponsorship page and for more, see our detailed sponsorship proposal document.
More information on the FOSSi Foundation:
Inspired by the success of open source software, the Foundation will help bring about IP and tools of comparable quality to proprietary offerings, and which are developed according to an open source model by a highly collaborative and inclusive community. The FOSSi Foundation will address the issues the field currently faces; fragmentation, legal uncertainty, design quality, and high barriers to entry.
FOSSi has launched LibreCores:
gateway to free and open source digital designs and other components that you can use and re-use in your digital designs.
FOSSi also organizes the ORConf:
We’re pleased to announce that ORConf 2017 will be held between September 8th and September 10th in Hebden Bridge in the UK.
Past talks are on the FOSSi Foundation’s YouTube channel such as this introduction from last year (jump to 1:59):
The Monolith Brings the Boom to Maker Faire
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gL5llIO3NcU%3Fversion%3D3
[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…
Multifunction Raspberry Pi Chiptune Player
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kB-iyDEXOrY%3Fversion%3D3
General Instrument’s AY-3-8910 is a chip associated with video game music and is became popular with arcade games and pinball machines. The chip tunes produced by this IC are iconic and are reminiscent of a great era for electronics. [Deater] has done an amazing job at creating a harmony between the old and new with his Raspberry…
Hackaday Prize Entry: Sub Gigahertz RF
For his Hackaday Prize entry, [Adam] is working on an open source, extensible 915 and 433 MHz radio designed for robotics, drones, weather balloons, and all the other fun projects that sub-Gigaherts radio enables.
The design of this radio module is based around the ADF7023 RF transceiver, a very capable and very cheap chip that transmits in the usual ISM bands. The rest of the circuit is an STM32 ARM Cortex M0+, with USB, UART, and SPI connectivity, with support for a battery for those mobile projects.
DIY Grid Eye IR Camera
Tindie is a great place to find uncommon electronic components or weird/interesting boards. [Xose Pérez] periodically “stroll the isles” of Tindie to keep up on cool new components, and when he saw Panasonic’s Grid_EYE AMG88 infrared sensor, [Xose] knew that he had to build something with it. The awesome find is an 8×8 IR array…
Apertus SMT workshop at Maker Faire Berlin
The Apertus° open source cinema team will be running a Surface Mount Technology (SMT) workshop at Maker Faire Berlin this weekend in their AXIOM booth #121:
Surface Mount Technology (SMT) Workshop
In the course of attending a lot of fairs and exhibitions, we’ve noticed that our cameras and components attract the attention of people from all walks of life. We’ve found that despite our reassurances, people discovering the world of Open Hardware tend to doubt their capabilities where soldering tiny components by hand is concerned.
This is why we hold Surface Mount Technology workshops – so that with a little confidence, the right tools and some initial guidance from members of our team, anyone can have great fun learning to make their own PCBs. The workshops are very popular and we have visitors designing pendants and earrings with colour LEDs and blinking patterns – which always creates a buzzing atmosphere.
apertus has shared the boards on OSH Park:
ART Base
ART Tear
ART Star
ART Diamond
Hackaday: Show Us Your Internet of Useful Things by Monday
Don’t forget to get your connected device entered in the Hackaday Prize by Monday morning. The current challenge is IuT ! IoT, a clever tilt at the Internet of Things, which is so hot right now. We don’t just want things to connect, we want that connection to be useful, so save your Internet Toasters…
via Show Us Your Internet of Useful Things by Monday — Hackaday
Surface Mount Challenge
From Ken Olsen of MakersBox on Hackaday.io:
An “Unfortunate” SMD Project
If you like happy, easy to build projects, this is not for you. This is only for people who like to grind their teeth and pull out hair.
Thanks to Ken for sending us the parts to try it out! http://www.makersbox.us/
MakersBox has shared project on OSH Park:
SMD Challenge Project
Be warned that trying to hand solder a 0201 package may be considered evidence of insanity and get you committed to bad places by your loved ones or arch nemesis.
Here’s a video of the board in operation:
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