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.

August 25, 2011

How long until Christmas?

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I have kids. They have questions. One of their big questions, all year long it seems, is "How long until Christmas?" Here's on...
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August 3, 2011

Simple Arduino data-collection

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At this year's "Arduinos in the Physics Lab" workshop at the AAPT meeting, one of the participants asked for a simple way of ...
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June 25, 2011

Stereo Camera rig

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This is something I've been wanting to try for awhile: I'd like to take pictures I can use with an old-school stereoscope . It seem...
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June 21, 2011

Morse-code trainer

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My kids are learning Morse code this summer, so I threw together this little circuit to help them learn. And to make it more fun... It uses...
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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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