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.

July 11, 2010

Arduino datalogging accelerometer with ยต-SD storage

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Thanks to Will Greiman's Fat16 library for the Arduino, I finally got a useful version of this datalogger working! Here's the schem...
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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...
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