If you thought microcontroller-enabled cooking was only for Arduinos, Trey German contacted me with his sous-vide cooker, built around a Texas Instruments MSP430F5529 USB LaunchPad. The code was derived from a pre-existing Arduino sketch from Adafruit. They’ve got a tutorial on this technique with an arduino here. The food that Trey cooked with it, a […]
Recently I switched careers from designing industrial food and dairy equipment to teaching industrial technology in a high school. While planning this move and taking night classes, I read quite a bit about authentic instruction where the students engage in real projects that end with something tangible and with real criteria for success. With the […]
Several groups have begun exploring 3D printed electronics, and Autodesk has just joined them
If you like or need to ride a bicycle on streets that are shared with automobiles, you can always be a danger to yourself, but what I fear most is other vehicles. This can be dangerous during the day, but add in reduced visibility at night, and things get even more complicated. Fortunately, there are […]
Build an inexpensive homemade o’scope for visualizing signals on your desktop OS.
James wanted a way to monitor the status of his garage door without having to actually look at the door. Fortunately, he has a knack with electronics and knows his way around connecting different sorts of systems together with code. In the initial version of the project, James used an Arduino and popular CC3000 breakout […]
If the picture seen above doesn’t scare you, or at least freak you out a little, the videos at the end of this post should do the trick. As seen on 3Dprint.com, Melisa Ng has come up with a 3D printed mask that I hope doesn’t show up in my dreams anytime soon! As freaky […]
