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.

May 9, 2011

Arduino-based event counter

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I teach Modern Physics here at CSUC, and we occasionally use isotopes with half-lives of a year or less (such as Zinc-65 and Cadmium-109) fo...
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April 4, 2011

DS3231 Real-Time Clock

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I've used the DS1307 Real-Time Clock (RTC) for a few projects in the past, but I'm currently working on several datalogger projects ...
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December 5, 2010

Christmas-tree water-level sensor

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UPDATE, 4 DAYS LATER: Don't build this one. The problem is the sensor: as a couple folk over at Hack-A-Day predicted, the copper sensor ...
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November 19, 2010

Improved Fan Cart

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In an earlier post I described an Arduino-controlled fan cart . The driver I used was an L293D quad half-H chip, because I had one handy and...
August 31, 2010

Network-status indicator

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I run a NFS/NIS network under a combination of OS's for the upper-division physics lab here at CSUC, and one source of irritation is whe...
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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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