Engineering Posts

10 May

Enginursday: OLED Clock Part II

This week I'm getting back to my OLED clock, and discussing the changes I've made.

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3 May

Enginursday: A Little Car Hacking

Making a display for an ethanol sensor.

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26 Apr

Enginursday: LilyPad and Minecraft Heads

Kids love Minecraft and things that glow in the dark - here's a fun project to get your littles involved with electronics!

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19 Apr

Enginursday: An Interactive, 3D Printed, LED Diamond Prop

Diamonds are... forever? My experiences 3D printing a translucent diamond theatrical prop for a choreographed piece with LEDs and capacitive touch sensing.

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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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