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An ARM dev board you can make at home

Posted: August 3rd, 2011, 5:01pm MDT by Brian Benchoff

[BarsMonster] just challenged our conceptions of ARM development with his single-sided development board that’s loaded with an STM32F100 (PDF warning) ARM microcontroller. The board is remarkably simple – just a regulator, resistor and a few caps are necessary to get a $1 ARM μC up and running. [BarsMonster] gave us a schematic of his board along [...]
DIY Propeller-based ECG

Posted: August 3rd, 2011, 4:01pm MDT by Mike Nathan

[Ray] likes to build all sorts of Propeller-based projects, but one of the more interesting items we came across was this DIY ECG. While we have covered other DIY electrocardiograms before, he left the breadboard behind and put together a nicely done PCB for his build. The ECGs design should be pretty familiar to anyone [...]
Dedicated hacker adds USB capabilities to his Commodore 64

Posted: August 3rd, 2011, 3:01pm MDT by Mike Nathan

To say that Commodore 64 aficionados are a dedicated group would be quite the understatement. There are still quite a few individuals that spend all sorts of time building and programming for the C64 in order to make using them enjoyable, and to keep up to date with current technologies. [Luigi] is one of these [...]
RepRap voyeurism

Posted: August 3rd, 2011, 2:01pm MDT by Mike Szczys

Hey everybody, [Nbitwonder] is building his own RepRap 3D printer. What’s special about that? Well, not much and and lot all at the same time. The art of building a self-replicating 3d printer still has a lot to do with luck and forum-crawling to make all of the decisions that go into this complicated project. [...]
Microsoft’s attempt at an Arduino killer — feels like a gimmick

Posted: August 3rd, 2011, 12:24pm MDT by Mike Szczys

Microsoft has thrown its hat into the open source hardware hobby market. Their offering is called the Gadgeteer. We’d love to tell you all about it, but the big M didn’t make it very easy to find out about the device and it’s addons. When we set out to find what processor is running on [...]
Peltier powered sous-vide rig gets it right every time

Posted: August 3rd, 2011, 11:24am MDT by Mike Nathan

It seems that sous-vide cooking is becoming increasingly popular lately. [Meseta] caught the sous-vide bug and wanted to try his hand at it, though he did not have enough money for a premade sous-vide cooker. After seeing a good handful of lackluster DIY sous-vide rigs online, he decided that he would design and build a [...]
How to add modular tools to your soldering platform

Posted: August 3rd, 2011, 10:01am MDT by Mike Szczys

[Patenomics] has had some trouble finding a suitable place to work on projects in his tiny apartment. Lately he’s taken to using the stove top as a soldering platform and was looking for ways to protect the stove while adding functionality. He built this soldering platform from a couple chunks of pegboard and some hardware store parts. [...]
Come see what’s cooking in the Arduino kitchen

Posted: August 3rd, 2011, 8:02am MDT by Mike Nathan

The crew that brought you the Arduino is always hard at work trying to bring the community closer together and to foster collaborative development. They recently rolled out a new feature on their site that is sure to be of interest to Arduino veterans and neophytes alike. Arduino Labs is a platform which the team [...]
A 3D Printed Aerial Drone

Posted: August 3rd, 2011, 7:02am MDT by Jeremy Cook

Drones come in many shapes and sizes, but now they can also be 3d printed! To make these drones, the [Decode] group used a selective laser sintering process which is pretty interesting in itself. Once the printing process is done, these little planes are built with only five structural and aerodynamic components. Because of their [...]