We have a new member to the Raspberry Family. The B+ version offers More General Purpose IO pins. Double the amount of USB ports Micro SD card Better audio Lower Power Consumption Neater Form Factor Dimensions of the Raspberry Pi B+ are below With a 40-pin breakout socket it offers a lot more than … Read More →
I’ve had quite a few people ask why I am not selling my µCurrent through international distributors like I did last time. Well, that’s a good question, and I’ll answer that as well as breaking down the economics of selling your own hardware product, what price you should sell your product at, and the pros & cons … Read More →
A few months ago while designing the Arduino CNC Shield I bumped into a guy that was also going through the process of building a CNC machine. Between us we had some good brain storms and ended up with the current version of the CNC Shield. He has been keeping himself busy with a few interesting … Read More →
This Raspberry Pi cnc machine with see-through LCD screen is a very interesting idea…
This blog post is a collection of useful commands that can be used with Raspberry Pi’s and other Debian based systems. I will update it with more useful commands as I find more.. 😉 Download a file from the internet sudo wget URL_OF_FILE_TO_DOWNLOAD Unzipping Zip Files unzip ZIP_FILENAME Shut Down sudo shutdown -h now SSH … Read More →
Introduction into RS-485 and CAN Bus After playing with micro controllers for a bit it gets clear that at some stage you want to control things at a distance. Doing this can very quickly get complicated and expensive. For the particular projects I wanted to control wireless was not an option as it was too … Read More →
I recently started moving from Arduino/Atmel 8-Bit processors to NXP/ARM 32-bit processors. It’s been a huge learning curve but it opens lots of doors for bigger and better projects. The first set of Micro Controllers I targeted was NXP’s LPC11U14 and LPC4337. These processors run much faster the Arduino’s and they work great for multi-tasked … Read More →
Being a making is part of human DNA. But why do we find it so rewarding? Well to start off I picked an invention from a company called Lift Labs. They invented a stabilizing spoon to help people with Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s Disease. The technology behind it is pretty amazing but the emotional responses from … Read More →
The Raspberry Pi is a great example of how automated manufacturing is leveling the playground in the PCB manufacturing industry. The video explains a bit of the process.. The main difference from hand soldering parts is that the automated process uses solder paste instead of solder wire. The solder paste can be applied in a … Read More →
Having the need to do Arduino Hardware testing I decided to make a shield with a secondary ATMega328 micro-controller and ended up with this shield… Behold, an extendable multi-core Arduino!!!
