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Hackaday: The Future Travels Of The Travelling Hackerbox
For the past year, I’ve been organizing a very special project over on hackaday.io. It’s the Travelling Hacker Box, a box full of random electronics junk, sibling to the The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk, and a project that has already traveled more than 25,000 miles. Earlier this month, I said the Hackerbox…
via The Future Travels Of The Travelling Hackerbox — Hackaday
1bitsy: Open Source JTAG enabled ARM dev platform
Piotr Esden-Tempski of 1Bitsquared created this Open Source and Open Hardware debuggable ARM development platform:
1Bitsy
Firmware development with the lights on
Design files and source code are shared on GitHub:
1bitsy-hardware
Small breadboard friendly STM32 (eventually other mcu’s too) eval boards with exposed JTAG and SWD for the use with Black Magic Probe and others!
The MightyWatt: a 70W Electronic Load Kit
Jakub Polonský of Kaktus Circuits created this programmable electronic load that sits on top of an Arduino:
The MightyWatt: a 70W Electronic Load Kit
Electronic loads are used to draw power from a source at either a constant current or a constant voltage. This comes in useful for things like battery discharge testing or making sure that PCB you designed can actually power those motors without releasing the all important magic smoke.
The kit is sold on Tindie:
MightyWatt turns your Arduino Uno R3, Arduino Zero (M0/M0 Pro) or Arduino Due into an electronic load capable of dissipating 70 Watts in a very small form factor. Ideal for testing power supplies, batteries, fuel cells or power amplifiers.
Design files and source are shared on GitHub:
Creating A PCB In Everything: KiCad, Part 1
This is the continuation of a series of articles demonstrating how to Create A PCB In Everything. In this series, we take a standard reference circuit and PCB layout — a simple ATtiny85 board — and build it with different PCB design tools. Already, we’ve taken a look at the pre-history of PCB design with…
HydraESP32: HydraBus and ESP-32S
The Espressif ESP32 features a 32-bit 240 MHz dual core processor with Wi-Fi and BLE. HydraBus created this shield for ESP-WROOM-32 or ESP-32S.
HydraESP32 v1.1 Rev1 with ESP-32S is alive
This shield can be used with or without HydraBus board, you can even cut HydraBus specific right side (on the line) to have a tiny ESP-WROOM-32 breakout board.
hydrabus has shared the board on OSH Park:
Low power Arduino Pro Mini board
Max.K created this Arduino Pro Mini compatible development board for low power applications:LP Mini
ideal for data logging over extended periods of time [..] can run for months or even years on a coin cell
Hardware
- Microcontroller: Atmega328p with Arduino bootloader
- Real Time Clock: MCP79410
- Voltage Regulator: MCP1700
- FDN340P MOSFET
Features
- 2.8 µA current consumption in sleep mode
- Compatible to the Arduino Pro Mini (except for pin 2 and 10)
- A real time clock keeps the time and is used to wake the Atmega from sleep mode
- Sleep current is reduced by using a more efficient voltage regulator
- A simple Mosfet is used to turn external devices on and off if the IO pins cannot provide enough current
Simula Robotic Organisms
Chicago Robotics Corp is exploring 3D Printed Robotics with Simula:
simulated life-forms for use in research and entertainment
The robot is programmed with Arduino IDE:
Programming Simula
You might choose to program Simula by yourself from scratch, modify our existing software, or just keep up with our latest simulations.
Arduino Library for the Simula Boards and Modules is on GitHub:
ChicagoRobotics/CRC_Simula_Library
Video of two Simula units cruising around:
Gathering for Open Science Hardware
The Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) is new annual conference for those building and using Open Source Hardware (OSHW) for scientific research:
The GOSH movement seeks to reduce barriers between diverse creators and users of scientific tools to support the pursuit and growth of knowledge.
GOSH 2016 took place at CERN last March with an excellent keynote by Javier Serrano:
Open Hardware at CERN – a quick introduction
Video of talks at GOSH 2016:
GOSH 2016 Day 1 part 1: Grand Challenges
GOSH 2016 Day 1 part 2: Grand Challenges
You can apply to attend GOSH 2017, 22-25 March 2017 at the Innovation Centre at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile:
GOSH 2017 Application Form
Vinduino: Save 25% Of Water Needed For Irrigation
Shane Ormonde wrote on the Tindie blog:
Vinduino – Save 25% Of Water Needed For Irrigation
Vinduino is one of those projects that set out to solve a really big problem which straight away makes it interesting. Reinier van der Lee wanted to use the least amount of water possible for irrigation in his southern California vineyard.
Hence the Vinduino project was made to be a relatively low cost system to help save on water use. It is also solar powered, further reducing its impact on the environment.
OSH Park 