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Arduino + GPS Module - Destination Notifier

“How much time do we waste in traffic jams? I made an Arduino-powered destination notifier to utilize this time in a productive way. Everyone knows that traffic jams can be a major time waster. And it is impossible to predict …

Arduino Nano - 8 Digit Segment Display

“The MAX7219 is a popular serial LED driver that is popularly used with micro-controllers and Arduino community has a built-in library, which makes easy to work with it. The MAX7219 works with Dot Matrix Display’s and Seven Segment Display …

Card Sorter for a Trading Card Machine

“The Background I already explained the motivation of my project in the Card Feeder article. But in short, my children and I have amassed a large amount of Trading Cards by now. The handling, sorting, etc. is very difficult with …

China’s Chang’e-4 probe soft-lands on moon’s far side

“China’s Chang’e-4 probe touched down on the far side of the moon Thursday, becoming the first spacecraft soft-landing on the moon’s uncharted side never visible from Earth. The probe, comprising a lander and a rover, landed at …

CircuitPython OLED and Dual Knob Sketcher Two trim pots and a microdisplay!

“In this guide we will create a simple knob sketcher toy using a graphical display and two potentiometers, also known as trim pots or just pots. We’ll go over the basic idea of drawing a pixel to the display …

Control Raspberry Pi Pins Over the Internet

“A 10-minute tutorial on how to control Raspberry Pi pins over the Internet. It’s very simple example to shows how to start. To Raspberry Pi we have attached LED. LED state is controlled by website or by mobile application …

Controllable fast, tiny magnetic bits

“MIT researchers show how to make and drive nanoscale magnetic quasi-particles known as skyrmions for spintronic memory devices. For many modern technical applications, such as superconducting wires for magnetic resonance imaging, engineers want as much as possible to get rid …

Customizable Case with Screws

“Simple Case Generator Creates a Case with given inner dimensions and screw bores. Use with standard wood screws and measure inner diameter of the screw. Updated Version now supports screws on the inside, simply set offset to a negative value …

Customizable ventilation grid

“This ventilation grid is a remix of Thing https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3115753 I added the possibility to change the witdh in addition, not just length and diameter. Now its possible to create also rectangular ventilation grids in a …

Customizing computer-aided design

“System breaks down complex designs into easily modifiable shapes for custom manufacturing and 3-D printing. MIT researchers have devised a technique that “reverse engineers” complex 3-D computer-aided design (CAD) models, making them far easier for users to customize for manufacturing …