Articles

• 22 Feb 2020

  PCB Color, Thickness and Material Samples

  For the past many years, green solderstop has been the standard in PCB production and most cheap manufacturing compan...

• 06 Dec 2015

  3D Printing Day at FabLab Nordvest

  On the 3rd of December it was global 3D printing day, a concept by 3D Hubs, where people all over organize smaller ev...

• 25 Oct 2015

  Robot Lab at Gladsaxe Library

  Yesterday I was helping out at a small robot building workshop for kids at one of the local libraries, and I made thi...

• 04 Jun 2015

  MakerCity Festival 2015

  This past weekend I was at the MakerCity Festival in Odense, Denmark and shot a bit of video of the different exhibit...

• 01 Sep 2014

  Made Celebration 2014

  This past weekend I was at the Made Celebration in Roskilde, Denmark and shot a bit of video of the different exhibit...

• 10 Sep 2013

  Looking forward to World Maker Faire 2013

  World Maker Faire in Queens, New York is September 21st and 22nd, 2013. While we are waiting for the faire to open, I...

• 16 Jun 2013

  SMD version of the Labitat Joule Thief kit

  Earlier this year, a friend and I designed a very simple Joule Thief kit to be used in promotion of Labitat and to te...

• 23 Feb 2012

  Silicon Valley Surplus Stores

  If you plan on visiting any of the stores below, please go to their websites and check for opening hours. Some are op...

• 31 Oct 2011

  Alternative case for MintyBoost

  The MintyBoost from Adafruit Industries, is a nice little electronics kit, perfect for the active smartphone user, th...

• 22 Oct 2011

  Ultimaker 3D Printer Assembly Timelapse

  About a month ago, I received my Ultimaker 3D printer kit, and for the assembly, I decided to rig my camera to create...

• 01 Oct 2011

  Video from Maker Faire New York 2011

  This year at Maker Faire has been with a high focus on robotics, and in this video I have tried to capture a wide var...

• 16 Jan 2011

  New bootloader file for ATmega8L

  When using the LCD I/O Backpack with the ATmega8L-8AU, you need a bootloader that runs at 8 MHz.But the one shipping ...

• 15 Jan 2011

  Alternative programming cable for LCD I/O Backpack

  A little over a month ago, I saw a post at Let’s Make Robots about making your own “FTDI” cable equivalent.The basis ...

• 03 Jan 2011

  RFID Readers with Netduino

  Up until now, all I had done with the Netduino was blink the built-in LED, but after seeing a question on the Netduin...

• 02 Jan 2011

  Converting between 2mm and 100mil pin spacing

  For the post about RFID readers with Netduino, I had to use the ID-20 reader from ID Innovations that has very short ...

• 20 Dec 2010

  Programming the LCD I/O Backpack with an Arduino

  Since the workshop in the beginning of October, there has been a few requests for alternatives to the FTDI USB to TTL...

• 20 Nov 2010

  Introducing the LCD I/O Backpack

  I admit, it has been a little slow for the past couple of months here on the blog, but that doesn’t mean nothing has ...

• 01 Aug 2010

  Custom LCD Characters with Arduino

  A few days ago I saw a post on Adafruits blog about an online tool by Bruno Maia to help create custom characters for...

• 01 Aug 2010

  4 LCD displays on 1 Arduino

  I’m planning an Arduino based project where I would like to use two of the 16x2 character based LCD displays, but at ...

• 19 Jul 2010

  I got my MSP430 LaunchPad

  At the price of four dollars and thirty cents - including worldwide shipping, I couldn’t resist buying a few of the M...

• 18 Jul 2010

  Using a quadrature encoder as input to FPGA

  This time, instead of using buttons to control the servo, we will use a quadrature encoder (I got it from Sparkfun, s...

• 17 Jul 2010

  Controlling an RC Servo with an FPGA

  This time, we will look at how to control a regular RC hobby servo. They come in many different sizes and gearings, b...

• 30 Jun 2010

  Learning to program FPGA's

  About two months ago a couple of guys from Labitat (including myself) decided to meet up every other week for an FPGA...

• 18 Jun 2010

  Photos from Bay Area Maker Faire 2010

  Below is a set of images from this years Maker Faire in the Bay Area. This was my first time at Maker Faire and I spe...

• 17 May 2010

  It's time for some tinkering

  Putting things together, solving a problem with an Arduino or trying to communicate with a new device. I do it all, b...