(Archive of : http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/14/day-14-thing-14-remote-arduino-programmer-failed/) I have been so happy with the programmer that I have been using that I wanted to add this capability to the xbee rf modules that I built a few months ago. I wired dio0 to both send and recieve boards and put the cap on the output side and wired… Read more »
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Day 13: Thing 13 — Mold
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/13/day-13-thing-13-mold/) Today I made a MESS. Really, I made a rubber mold for casting resin . I was given a section of a large display recently that was made up of 6 5×7 led modules. The modules were embedded in epoxy with the lenses built into the front. As most of the led… Read more »
Day12: Thing12 — Helmet Taillights
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/12/day12-thing12-helmet-taillights/) One of our local dorkbots put an arduino in a bucket the other day and I got inspired to put one in my head bucket. I lined the two largest holes in the back of the helmet with foil tape (for ducts) and then built two boards with leds and mounted in… Read more »
Day 11: Thing 11 — led arrays
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/11/day-11-thing-11-led-arrays/) Today I got 2000 little leds in the mail. They are really bright. So of course I had to play around with them. I made 2 8×8 arrays one is made of magnet wire with no supporting background. I will figure out if I am going to mount this on somehting later…. Read more »
Day 10: Thing 10 — Wheel Watchers for Hacked Tamaya Mouses.
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/10/day-10-thing-10-wheel-watchers-for-hacked-tamaya-mouses/) My son aidan and I have been working on a pair of arduino based robots. Today I had him look at the boards from the check reader pile and reverse engineer the emitter detector pairs that tell the reader when the check is present. After poking around at the circuit board he… Read more »
Day 9: Thing 9 — My Sorry Bot Version 2
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/09/day-9-thing-9-my-sorry-bot-version-2/) I have a bot I hacked together out of an overgrown sorry piece that I found. This year I plan to make it into a production maze solver. In order to do that I built a perfboard prototype to work out the placement and details.
Day 8: Thing 8 — Place Holder for Rotation Sensors
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/08/day-8-thing-8-place-holder-for-rotation-sensors/ ) Today I made 2 new pieces of things but not the new thing that I had intended as todays thing today. So for now the the y axis that I built for a future drawing machine, and the limit switches that I added to the etcha sketch mechanism will have to… Read more »
Day 7: Thing 7: TA8080K Motor Board
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/07/day-7-thing-7-ta8080k-motor-board/) I have long been annoyed with how the l293s require 3 pins per motor to drive them and traded a couple of on hand mega8s for a bag of these toshiba parts. They are 1 amp motor drivers and perfect for some of the things I am working on for thing a… Read more »
Day 6: Thing 6 — Motorized Etch-A-Sketch(r) mechanism
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/06/day-6-thing-6-motorized-etch-a-sketchr-mechanism/) Several years ago I took apart an Etch-A-Sketch and took notes on the “complicated pully system” inside. have wanted to build one of these since then. With this and several other projects in mind I bought a small pile of Tamaya pully sets. (this project ate most of 3 of them) This… Read more »
Day 5: Thing 5 — Frame for internal Combustion
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/05/day-5-thing-5-frame-for-internal-combustion/) I have a painting that I did almost 10 years ago called internal combustion. It was done on blueprints fixed to foamcore. The piece is about 40″ in diameter and has been moved 8 times. It has clearly seen better days. I wanted to build a frame for it. As it is… Read more »