Articles
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...