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Force Friday Product Post: Thank the Maker
A new shirt design, a new power relay for your IoT needs, and a revision to the popular RedBearLab Nano board. It's Force Friday!
Enginursday: Detecting Knob Changes
A look into how to decide when a knob has moved, so that your program can take an action.
Desk of an Engineer: the Marshall Edition
Let's see what Marshall has going on in that cave of his!
The Case for Patents
One open source guy's opinion on whether or not we should have these things at all
Adventures in Science: Mixing RC Controller Inputs for Arcade Drive
Let's mix channels from an RC hobby controller to make a robot drive!
Friday Product Post: Robot Overlords
Bow down, everyone. A new uArm, CMUcam and GPS receiver will all but ensure our downfall.
Enginursday: RS-232 vs. TTL vs. Inverted TTL
Today, we revisit the concept of serial communication with RS-232 and TTL. We'll also explore the "inverted TTL" with the ultrasonic range finder to read data from the sensor.
Adventures in Science: Using an RC Hobby Controller with Arduino
Let's learn how to read PWM signals from an RC receiver!