Engineering Posts

12 Apr

Enginursday: Gilfoyle's Bitcoin Price Alert

How the project for this Enginursday went from a very involved asset tracking project, to a motorized fly vise which, thanks to a stock error, is now replicating a joke from a TV show.

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5 Apr

Audio Reactive Wearables

Remixing Anouk Wipprecht's Kitty Ear soldering project shared on OSHPARK and Shapeways.

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22 Mar

Enginursday: Create a Web-Controlled Robot Using the ESP32 Thing

Using a ESP32 Thing and a WiFi camera to create a robot that you control from your browser.

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8 Mar

Enginursday: Steps Toward an Inverted Pendulum Robot

A classic control systems challenge is building an inverted pendulum robot. Today we'll discuss the theory behind the project.

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1 Mar

Digital Handpan V2: The Touch Drum

SparkFun Engineer Joel plays a melody on the second version of the digital handpan, aka the Touch Drum.

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22 Feb

Enginursday: BLE MIDI for the Tsunami!

Tsunami looping firmware is released, and connectable by MIDI. And why not MIDI BLE? It's done with the nRF52832 this week.

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15 Feb

The Best Enginursdays You May Have Missed

Reflection is important, so let's reflect on some past, beloved Enginursdays.

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8 Feb

Enginursday: Prototype Wearable LED Dance Harness

My experiences exploring wearables for dancers performing a choreographed piece.

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1 Feb

How to Make the Most of CES

A few tips and considerations to help you get the most out of a trip to the annual showcase.

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25 Jan

Mort and Mary Present: The Mind-Controlled Light Switch

Using the Mind Wave Mobile+, Mort and I created a mind-controlled IoT...solution (?) with sockets, of course!

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