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Last Updated: 2017-SEP-07 Status: Completed View Open Vapors Details on Hackster.io \id=EIHeH-U6yuY\ GiHub: Open Vapors Reflow Control Software Flickr Set: …

Status: In Progress, Last Update: October 14, 2012 GiHub: https://github.com/jamesc4s/Accurate-RTC-Shield Abstract The DS3231 is a Precise Real-Time Clock from Maxim. It requires …

There are many options for powering an Arduino board. The designers did a great job of designing an auto-select circuit that makes it simple to power the boards. However, there are …

Can you can imagine what people thought about today, 20 years ago? Think of all the crazy things you (or others) thought we would be doing today. Like… Video phone calls from your …

Several months ago I started a project to build a Binary Clock, using a Laser Cut enclosure. The plan was to use Ponoko’s laser cutting service. Looking through the materials …

Why is choosing a simple AA battery such a daunting selection process? Manufacturers are keen on giving their products different names and brag about the chemical technology that …

T he iconic picture of a homemade case for the Apple I, the computer that changed the world, is a great image for Upverter’s post about… changing the world. While most of today’s …

Researchers at the Polytechnic School of Montreal have figured out a way to turn a battery into a flexible material. Each strand of the “battery” is 0.6V. While exciting, it has …

Tools like National’s (now TI) WebBENCH have allowed engineers to design power supplies without downloading any software for quite some time. Recently I got an account at …

Abstract Mixed Signal Integration has a cool little chip that has 7 built-in bandpass filters. Run an audio signal through it and you have an instant audio spectrum analyzer! This …