If there’s one thing we like, it’s blinky stuff, and you’re not going to get anything cooler than a display made of tiny SMD LEDs. That’s the idea behind this wristwatch and Hackaday Prize entry. It’s a tiny board, loaded up with an ATmega, a few buttons, and a bunch of LEDs in a big…
via Hackaday Prize Entry: A Charlieplexed Wristwatch — Hackaday
In the last (and first) post in this series, we took a look at Eagle. Specifically, we learned how to create a custom part in Eagle. Our goal isn’t just to make our own parts in Eagle, we want to make schematics, boards, and eventually solder a few PCBs. The board we’ll be making, like…
For the first in a series of posts describing how to make a PCB, we’re going with Eagle. Eagle CAD has been around since the days of DOS, and has received numerous updates over the years. Until KiCad started getting good a few years ago, Eagle CAD was the de facto standard PCB design software…
Neil Movva created this wearable project to assist the blind:
wearable device that translates distance into haptic feedback. Users just wear the wristband (or glove) and point at objects up to 500 centimeters away, and feel gentle pulses at their fingertips corresponding to the object’s distance
The design files and source code are available on GitHub:
neilmovva/pathfinderKaktus Circuits created this board to analyze USB devices:
Easily tap into the USB signals coming and going while the device is still connected to the bus [..] monitors power consumption [..] handy for reverse engineering devices without having to take the device apart
The assembled board can be purchased on Tindie. The hardware design files have be shared on GitHub:
kaktus85/USBuddy
The Lino board was correctly made and roughly tested. But now, how can I see how correctly performs? By simply integrating the load (power LEDs) and the PC environment to a complete working system. In this article will be provided a summary of these various steps, just to keep rtace of the progresses. The […]
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MobileWill revamped his living room monitor with a new board design:
For over a year now the living room node and La Crosse Gateway has been sitting atop a plastic bin next to my patio slider in a mess of wires. This is when you know you have too many projects lying around the house. So this summer I decided to design a PCB with a nodeMCU that will replace both projects and mount atop of a power brick. I went with the nodeMCU since there is power nearby, ease of connecting directly to the MQTT broker, and I can broadcast more often without the power limitations of a battery. This project frees up two RFM12B boards so that they can be used for the other window and the front door.
The new board features:
friedcircuits/nodeSensor
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