It tells time, and has a calendar, alarm, oscilloscope, waveform generator, logic analyzer, protocol sniffer, and a frequency counter.
There’s about a month to go on the Kickstarter campaign, if you want one.
The maker, Gabriel Anzziani, has a good track record. Here are some of his earlier devices:
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The Voltset devices plug into an Android phone and offer multimeter-type functions. The Mini Voltset measures voltage and continuity. The Mega Voltset adds resistance measurements.
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About a year ago Labrigger covered the Raspberry Pi, a single board computer. In some ways, it’s like a high-powered Arduino, but really, it’s a miniature PC. Albeit, a PC that uses an ARM…
Open Electronics has a nice overview and comparison of Linux Development boards like the Raspberry Pi.
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4D Systems sells screens and touchscreens for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other systems. Importantly, the code is portable (mentioned in the video above), they have good support, and the hardware plugs right into the boards. It doesn’t get much easier than this. They have resellers…
Inventables is a web retailer with a decent site that makes it easy to find raw materials and interesting components. E.g., stretch-sensing rubber and conductive velcro.
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Coax BNC cables come in two flavors, 50 ohm and 75 ohm. For experimental rigs (PMTs, DAQs, amplifiers), always buy 50 ohm cables. The 75 ohm versions are for video…
Lukas Fisher’s got a new post up covering the build of a super bright LED spotlight, including details on his experience with hotplate-based reflow soldering. (link)
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Most project enclosures are cheap and ugly. I challenge anyone to find something from PacTec that Dieter Rams would want in his house.
The following suggestions might not be Rams-worthy either, but they’re a…
This is a work in progress, please contribute additions, thoughts, and criticism (constructive and otherwise) in the comments.
Step 0. RTFM.
Step 1. Turn it off and back on.
Congrats. There is a…
As previously noted, homemade cables are to be avoided. However, stock cables are not always up to spec. For example, if one wants to drive stepper motors using a 9-pin…
