Hardware Hacks

Various hardware hacking ideas, generally related to microcontrollers (or other interesting electronic bits) and occasionally how one might use them in physics labs.

January 14, 2010

Clock Update

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I've posted an updated version of the "overkill clock" code. This update takes care of a major bug in the alarm-sensing cod...
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January 1, 2010

Alarm Clock Overkill

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I don't get up at the same time every day, so I thought it'd be nice to have an alarm clock that would drag me out of bed at differ...
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December 19, 2009

Using a quadrature encoder (rotary switch) with Arduino

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I've found several sites and posts explaining how to use a quadrature encoder with an Arduino, but wasn't completely satisfied with ...
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November 16, 2009

"Arduino for Artists" Workshop

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The micro-course for art/sculpture students was fun, interesting, and generally worth the time and effort. Of course, I taught it so there m...
November 2, 2009

Wireless acceleration sensor!

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Here's a webpage I put together a few months ago describing how to use XBee wireless transceivers as 3-axis wireless accelerometers ....

Cylon Pumpkin

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This has been done before . There are several good ways to do it: most use either a 555 timer chip and decimal counter chip, or an Ardui...
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