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CatBot: Automated Cat Laser

“The CatBot is an autonomous laser toy for your cat. You may say “But Joe, isn’t the laser pointer the best toy for the lazy cat owner?” I’d have to say no, the CatBot takes one step further …

CMOS-TTL quadrature encoder using LS7084

“The quadrature LS7084 Module is a CMOS quadrature clock converter. Quadrature clocks derived from optical or magnetic encoders, when applied to the A and B inputs of the LS7084 are converted to strings of a Clock and an Up/down …

Controlling your high-voltage Fan with an Touchscreen and Arduino MEGA!

“In this article we will control your high-voltaged Fan with an 2.8 inch TFT Touchscreen (Elecrow & Seeed) and Arduino Mega! We implement a few relays and tranistors to switch high voltages with low currents. I have a particular type …

Countdown Calendars

“I got some gift card money and decided to try making something with ESP8266. While I was adding to my cart I saw a deal on OLED screens too. Once I got past “Hello World”. This is what I came …

CrashSpace BigButton w/ ESP8266

“At CrashSpace we have a publicly-viewable “sign” at https://crashspacela.com/sign/ to let members know when the space is open. This sign page is updated by a big button in the front room. Press it, the sign page updates …

Digital Potentiometer using Optical Encoder – 10KOhms

“The primary application of the project is to replace the mechanical potentiometer with optical encoder which is long life, accurate, smooth in operation. The simple project has been designed around LS7184 quadrature clock converter IC from LSI semiconductor, AD5220-10 …

DIY Data logging weather station under $15

“In this instructable I am going to show you how to build a weather station that logs the information that it collects on a sd card.”

DIY Nespresso Capsule Detector

“If there’s one thing that we geeks love, it’s coffee. We always buy a lot of different capsules for our workshop, put them in a jar, and then we have no idea which color to pick. So we …

DIY Thermal Imaging

“Over the past few years, I’ve done a few serious and many not so serious energy research projects. Thermal imaging is quite a powerful tool for doing serious energy research and I always wanted to try out to do …

Dual-Channel Quadrature Hall-Effect Bipolar Switch Module for Magnetic Encoder

“The A1230 is a dual-channel, bipolar switch with two Hall-effect sensing elements, each providing a separate digital output for speed and direction signal processing capability. The Hall elements are photo lithographically aligned to better than 1 µm. maintaining accurate mechanical …