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.

June 22, 2010

Arduino-Controlled Physics Lab Fan-Cart

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A "fan cart" is a roughly constant-force device used in introductory physics labs. It consists of a fan (usually a model airplane...
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February 16, 2010

Simple Datalogger

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Here's a simple Arduino-based datalogger I'm currently developing: This test-of-concept model is based on the Arduino Pro Mini (...
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 ....
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