Engineering Posts

7 May

Enginursday: A Raspberry Pi-based Magic Mirror

A project for keeping track of the days when it's anything but easy.

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16 Apr

Enginursday: 3D-Printing Your Way to a Better Printer (Part 1)

Here's how I built a printer enclosure for my Taz 6.

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9 Apr

Enginursday: Two-Wheeled Robot Precision Driving with Encoder Feedback

Using encoder feedback to control two DC motors, this robot is self-correcting!

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26 Mar

Enginursday: Switching Sensors with a WS2811 Addressable LED Driver

Facing the daunting task of wiring together 192 of the same I2C sensor inspired a creative solution.

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19 Mar

Enginursday: A Qwiic Comparison of Temperature Sensors

Comparing analog and digital temperature sensors TMP36, TMP102 and TMP117. Which is better?

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12 Mar

Enginursday: The Decade of Pi

It hasn't been quite a decade since the release of the Raspberry Pi platform, but it was definitely the hardware project that dominated the 2010s for us. For today's post I'd love the reminisce and review the big story.

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5 Mar

Enginursday: Keycode Security Starter, Part 2

This is the second part depicting the building of a keycode-based anti-theft system for a car.

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27 Feb

Enginursday: Fixing the ESP32 Thing Plus

In this Enginursday post, we talk about a fixing a problem the ESP32 Thing Plus had.

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20 Feb

Enginursday: Non-Addressable RGB LEDs

Add color to your projects with analog LED strips!

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13 Feb

Enginursday: A New Sensory Experience with the Cthulhu Shield

Using Sapien LLC's Arduino Shield and Electrode array we can expand our human senses.

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