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.

March 21, 2012

Driving multiple Sparkfun 7-segment displays with an Arduino

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I'm currently helping a couple of engineering students finish a senior project that didn't get finished last year. Long story... Any...
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February 12, 2012

Remote key-switch operation

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One of my colleagues, Dr. Shane Mayor , has built a very nice LIDAR system for atmospheric research . It's located at a remote site, at ...
December 5, 2011

Christmas-tree water-level alert

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Update 12/11/11: A fix to the program--- changed to capSenseRaw() instead of capSense(). The problem with capSense() is that it auto-adjust...
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September 14, 2011

Hovercraft

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Stefan and I cleaned out the garage last weekend. We found some useful scraps of plywood, and plastic sheeting, and a roll of duct tape, and...
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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