Electro Pet plays Santa

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Electro_pet by Facelesstech

I got inspiration for this project from the petduino. The petduino is a great project to get kids into coding and electronics. I thought I would have a go and see if I could add some more features to it. Also my daughter was really interested in the 8×8 led matrix

Hardware walkthrough video:

Video of Santa hat and breathalyzer hat for the Electro Pet:

Design files and source code are available on GitHub:

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facelessloser has shared boards on OSH Park:

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Electro Pet plays Santa

Comprehensive Respiratory Health Monitor

279361444154700437.jpgDean Gouramanis is building a wearable Bluetooth-enabled Arduino Pulse Oximeter:

Comprehensive Respiratory Health Monitor

bluetooth-enabled wearable device can measure Pulse Oximetry, and ambient CO2 24/7

The board is shared on GitHub:

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Comprehensive Respiratory Health Monitor

The MightyWatt: a 70W Electronic Load Kit

of Kaktus Circuits created this programmable electronic load that sits on top of an Arduino:

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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:

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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:

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The MightyWatt: a 70W Electronic Load Kit

Low power Arduino Pro Mini board

3317771479151537261.JPGMax.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

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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
Low power Arduino Pro Mini board

Simula Robotic Organisms

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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:

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Video of two Simula units cruising around:

 

 

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Building an ATmega328 uploader

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Carlos of GlowSaber wrote a great blog post on how we built an AVR programmer shield:

Building an ATmega328 uploader

As I learned more about Arduino, I realized that it is possible to redesign the GlowSaber around the ATmega328 chip [..] I designed an Arduino Shield that can be used to burn the bootloader and upload programs to an ATmega328 chip.

Here’s a example of an ATmega328 in a custom board:

cvadillo shared the board on OSH Park:

Arduino ISP Breakout shared project

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Building an ATmega328 uploader

Arduino Pro Trinket Bubble Display

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davedarko wrote in his LED displays on Arduinos – a collection project log on hackaday.io:

Arduino Pro Trinket – bubble display

With 4 of HP QDSP-6064 bubble displays in a drawer I felt ready to do something with them and the “Clocks for Social Good” – call on hackaday.com finally got me going

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The design files are available on GitHub:

davedarko has shared the board on OSH Park:

ProTrinket Bubble Display shield

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Arduino Pro Trinket Bubble Display

Teensy to Arduino adapter board

OSH Park engineer Dan Sheadel created this board to break out Teensy 3.x into a form factor suitable for small electronics prototyping:

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  • Adapts Teensy pinout to Arduino shield, so existing shields can be fit to a Teensy
  • Adds LiPo battery monitoring and charging capability
  • Adds three wire pinouts for all pins
  • All PWM outputs have an LED
  • All PWM outputs connect to 3 wire servo headers that supply input or battery voltage for use with servos or motor controllers
  • Contains small Stormy logo on back since the Stormbots were the inspiration for this board’s existence

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Due to the nature of the breakout, many components can be omitted depending on the needed sections.

Components

Part Quantity Description Part Number
Teensy 1 Teensy Microcontroller OSH Park or Adafruit or
PCB 1 Bare PCB OSH Park
LED 11 0603 or 0805 LED any
1uF cap 2 0603 or 0805 cap any
0.1uF cap 4 0603 or 0805 LED any
10uF cap 2 0603 or 0805 cap any
LiPO Battery 4 Any with JST connector Adafruit
JST Battery Connector 4 JST-PH-2-THM-RA
MCP73871 2 LiPO Battery Management IC MCP73871
MCP1703 2 3.3V voltage regulator MCP1703
Large (100uF+ cap) 2 0603 or larger any

Pin Connections

The various use cases may or may not require some or all of these pins. Here’s the most you can solder to the board in the simplest orientation

Most of these can be swapped, omitted, or assembled with small 1×3 connectors or whatever you have on hand. Otherwise, they can be purchased at Digikey or Adafruit

Part Quantity Description
Arduino Sockets 2 0.1″ 1×8 F socket
Arduino Sockets 2 0.1″ 1×6 F socket
3 wire output headers 2 0.1″ 3×8 M Angle Pins
3 wire output headers 1 0.1″ 3×6 M Angle Pins
Servo output headers 2 0.1″ 3×3 M 90 degree Pins
Servo output headers 1 0.1″ 3×4 M 90 degree Pins
Teensy to Arduino adapter board

Drone Racing 5.8GHz Diversity Receiver

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Shea Ivey created this receiver for FPV (First Person View) Drone Racing:

DIY project to create your own 5.8ghz FPV diversity basestation – based off the rx5808 receiver module.

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Project includes basic Arduino Nano implementation to advanced custom PCB board and introduction to digital switches 4066 chip.

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sheaivey has shared the board on OSH Park:

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Drone Racing 5.8GHz Diversity Receiver