DIY Table Saw for PCBs and thin wood
by Cutting PCBs down to size for each project has always been a problem for me. I don’t have a bench saw, so I’ve been doing …
Category: Lab
This category contains experiments and tests, which for me usually means messing around and playing with a particular concept, technology, device or whatever. May or may not contain actual “lab” tests.
Arduino / Atari / Electronics / Lab
Custom PCB for SIO2Arduino
A while ago -and after a couple of trips to our local “flea market”- I managed to get my hands on a fully working vintage Atari …
A small improvement to the Soldering Fume Extractor
You may remember the small soldering fume extractor I designed a while ago. It has worked really well since I built it, and it’s made my …
Random Numbers, Distributions and Games (Part 2)
Continuing from my previous post on randomness, I’d like to talk about non-uniform distributions, which certainly don’t get all the love they deserve. When people talk or think …
Random Numbers, Distributions, and Games (Part 1)
DISCLAIMER: This is a rather long post on the topic of random numbers, so …uh, sorry for that. I want to talk about a couple of interesting …
Arduino / Electronics / Lab
TFT Adventures (Playing with a ILI9341-based display)
Not long ago I purchased a few 320×240 touchscreen displays from ebay that looked pretty decent and were also fairly cheap. They conform to the Arduino shield form-factor, so they snap directly onto any standard Arduino …
Arduino / Electronics / Lab / Reviews
Temperature Sensors
I wanted to add a temperature sensor to a project I’m working on, and while I already had selected the perfect IC for the job, I decided …
Arduino / Development / Electronics / Lab
Brainfuck-on-Arduino: End Of File
Ok, so this is probably the last post I’ll make about my Brainfuck-on-Arduino project, basically because it has reached a point where I’ve already tried …