Engineering Posts

19 Dec

Enginursday - Stupid Eagle Tricks

Exploring some Eagle PCB internals.

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12 Dec

Enginursday: Homopolar motors and a greater understanding of Magnetism

Homopolar motors and a greater understanding of Magnetism

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5 Dec

Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry Pi

How to create a Twitter monitor in Python and flash an LED using a Raspberry Pi.

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21 Nov

Enginursday: Time-lapse with the Raspberry Pi

How to create a simple and cheap time-lapse rig with the Raspberry Pi.

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7 Nov

Enginursday: I <3 Python!

How Python makes my life easier every day

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24 Oct

Enginursday: The RedBot/MathWorks Collaboration

How to interface the RedBot with MatLab and SimuLink

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17 Oct

Enginursday: Visually Programming Arduino

Visual programming languages are a unique way to introduce tyro programmers to thinking like a programmer. Here are some of the great tools we've discovered that enable visual programming for Arduino.

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14 Oct

Why You Should De-Rate Capacitors

Why the voltage rating on capacitors matters and why you should derate them.

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10 Oct

Enginursday - RFID technology

Radio-Frequency IDentification is a technology that allows machines to identify an object without touching it, or even without a clear line of sight. How does it work?

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3 Oct

Enginursday: All Aboard for The Final Frontier

SparkFun returns to the AIAA Small Satellite Conference with more people, more stuff, and export-controlled sombreros.

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