Arduino Micro Review
The Arduino Micro is one of the newer Arduino models but it does not get much of a mention. Like the Leonardo it has a single microcontroller chip, the ATmega32u4 which is an 8bit controller with 32K of Flash and
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Tags: Arduino
Small stepper motors
For my clock project I needed to control the position of the hands. My options were continuously rotating servos or stepper motors. I found some small 28BYJ-48 stepper motors and gearbox with ULN2003 driver boards on the internet so I
Posted in: Topsy Turvy Clock
Tags: Arduino, stepper motor
Smart?
Back in Nov 2012 I backed a project on Kickstarter for a small Arduino like microcontroller system called “Smartduino” which I hoped to use for an internet connected humidity monitor. About this time last year I was expecting to see
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Tags: Arduino, Kickstarter
Review of 2013
This year has been a great year for projects, I started the year by fulfilling a New Year’s resolution and mounting a vice. I also did a bit of upcycling turning some old scaffold planks and builders discards into a
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Tags: 2013
Silly Clock
Whilst watching the Mr Silly, Mr Men episode on TV, I noticed he had a rather splendidly silly clock. Research I was having a think and concluded that such a clock could be made and could also be designed to
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Tags: Arduino, Clocks
Loft Light / Inspection lamp
When I bought my house it came with a loft that was only accessible by a ladder. There was no power up there and hence no light. I wanted something that could be plugged in downstairs but also hung from
Competition Time – ATX Power Splitter
Whilst I was getting the Christmas decorations out of the loft I found a box of old electronics. Along with these was a board I bought a few years back for a project that was later abandoned. It’s an ATX
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Tags: ATX, Competition, PSU
The Triggers Brush Principle and Bootstrapping
Trigger’s Brush is a phrase I like to use a lot. It refers to the roadsweeper character “Trigger” in the series “Only Fools And Horses”. One time Trigger gets his name in the paper for having the same brush for
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Tags: Gingery Lathe, Inprove, Only Fools and Horses, repair, RepStrap
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
