PWM Fan Controller

Used Adafruit’s M0 feather proto board and their OLED feather wing to build a quick PWM fan contoller.  The M0 version was needed for the faster CPU to be able to drive the required PWM frequencies.  To be fair you can probably find a cheaper solution already built on the internet, but where’s the fun…read more

Hawk DIY Chassis v0.5

This project is do-it-yourself 3D printable chassis.  It is built around standard 2020 frame construction used in DIY 3D printers and CNCs.  The design files are available online at Thingaverse, thing:4297391.   Note, this is a derivative work, the 2020 beams are based on other designs.  The new parts were the brackets and panels.  Where possible…read more

Digital Scoreboard, Revisited

After almost a year sitting on the bench, we did some more work on the digital scoreboard.  After some paint, a bit of mechanical hacks and software bug fixes we have a working scoreboard.  It can be controlled from smartphone or even smartwatch using BluetoothLE.  It runs off 4 D-cell batteries, DC adapter or USB…read more

Water Meter 1.1

There was an Arduino Yun sitting around that needed a home so we adapted our water meter to this powerful little network board.  It’s unfortunatel that the Yun is discontinued as it’s really a good fit for this type of project.  It can be powered from ethernet, PoE.  And being able to get to the…read more

Cubic Revisited

WORK IN PROGRESS Cubic is a robot project that is making slow progress.  It’s been an experiment putting some different projects together.  It has two robot arms built with a mix of Dynamixel AX-12A and XL-320 servos and controlled with a OpenCM board.  The base is a Sainsmart robot tracks kit.  The motors are currently…read more

Pocket PiGRRL

We made one of the Adafruit’s Pocket PiGRRL kits.  It’s a really rewarding project, however it does involve a significant  amount of soldering.  When done you are treated to having an awesome handheld game platform. For more information see Adafruit’s website. Pocket PiGRRL (https://learn.adafruit.com/pocket-pigrrl/overview)  

AIY Vision Kit

Had a good unboxing experience with Google’s AIY Vision Kit. https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/ The project uses a board with the Movius artificial intelligence coprocessor connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero W. The camera images are processor using their TensorFlow framework to recognize the emotions on faces. Very simple kit to get going with a lot of amazing…read more

Wall-E Display

Used Adafruit’s Feather TFT to create a replica WALL-E display module.  

Labnation’s Smartscope

Doing some I2C debug on an Arduino and OpenCM9.04c boards. Loving Labnation’s smartscope that plugs into a PC/tablet https://www.lab-nation.com/  

Digital Scoreboard

This is a prototype of a digital scoreboard. It’s uses several 8×5 NeoPixel matrixes from Adafruit.  The Arduino Uno is used to provide a game time and scores which is controlled by phone via Bluetooth.  It’s definitely an early version which needs polish and cost reduction, but good for the backyard basketball hoop.    

PWM Fan Controller

Used Adafruit’s M0 feather proto board and their OLED feather wing to build a quick PWM fan contoller.  The M0 version was needed for the faster CPU to be able to drive the required PWM frequencies.  To be fair you can probably find a cheaper solution already built on the internet, but where’s the fun…read more

Hawk DIY Chassis v0.5

This project is do-it-yourself 3D printable chassis.  It is built around standard 2020 frame construction used in DIY 3D printers and CNCs.  The design files are available online at Thingaverse, thing:4297391.   Note, this is a derivative work, the 2020 beams are based on other designs.  The new parts were the brackets and panels.  Where possible…read more

Digital Scoreboard, Revisited

After almost a year sitting on the bench, we did some more work on the digital scoreboard.  After some paint, a bit of mechanical hacks and software bug fixes we have a working scoreboard.  It can be controlled from smartphone or even smartwatch using BluetoothLE.  It runs off 4 D-cell batteries, DC adapter or USB…read more

Water Meter 1.1

There was an Arduino Yun sitting around that needed a home so we adapted our water meter to this powerful little network board.  It’s unfortunatel that the Yun is discontinued as it’s really a good fit for this type of project.  It can be powered from ethernet, PoE.  And being able to get to the…read more

Cubic Revisited

WORK IN PROGRESS Cubic is a robot project that is making slow progress.  It’s been an experiment putting some different projects together.  It has two robot arms built with a mix of Dynamixel AX-12A and XL-320 servos and controlled with a OpenCM board.  The base is a Sainsmart robot tracks kit.  The motors are currently…read more

Pocket PiGRRL

We made one of the Adafruit’s Pocket PiGRRL kits.  It’s a really rewarding project, however it does involve a significant  amount of soldering.  When done you are treated to having an awesome handheld game platform. For more information see Adafruit’s website. Pocket PiGRRL (https://learn.adafruit.com/pocket-pigrrl/overview)  

AIY Vision Kit

Had a good unboxing experience with Google’s AIY Vision Kit. https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/ The project uses a board with the Movius artificial intelligence coprocessor connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero W. The camera images are processor using their TensorFlow framework to recognize the emotions on faces. Very simple kit to get going with a lot of amazing…read more

Wall-E Display

Used Adafruit’s Feather TFT to create a replica WALL-E display module.  

Labnation’s Smartscope

Doing some I2C debug on an Arduino and OpenCM9.04c boards. Loving Labnation’s smartscope that plugs into a PC/tablet https://www.lab-nation.com/  

Digital Scoreboard

This is a prototype of a digital scoreboard. It’s uses several 8×5 NeoPixel matrixes from Adafruit.  The Arduino Uno is used to provide a game time and scores which is controlled by phone via Bluetooth.  It’s definitely an early version which needs polish and cost reduction, but good for the backyard basketball hoop.