Reverse engineering a $30 MaKey MaKey derivative with good intentions (but no attribution)
We tore apart a Neato Robotics XV-11 robotic vacuum cleaner and did a little reverse engineering.
ON Semiconductor lets us know that the fake ATmega328s are actually NCP5318 buck regulators for Intel processors.
We unleash the professionals at Atmel to inspect the insides of our defunct ATmega328s. We found ON Semi written inside. Tim gives us a tour of the Failure Analysis labs at Atmel, Colorado Springs campus.
A SparkFun customer and a a local dentist investigate the ATMega328 "slugs" - with interesting findings.
SparkFun gets counterfeit parts, buys nitric acid and a microscope, finds lack of silicon.
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Enginursday: The Look - the Feel - of Concrete
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What about Adafruitś IO platform? (https://io.adafruit.com) And your Phant platform?? (http://phant.io/about)
Hot glue worked perfect! Getting a hot glue pot so I…
I want to see that when it’s finished Rob! You also gave me another idea of taking apart dollar store solar lawn light stakes and using the…
I was concerned as well. That’s why you see fewer and fewer pieces of electronics cast in concrete with each iteration. At the suggestion of…
My career in electronics started at the age of 5 with a Radio Shack 150-in-one electronics kit–very much like this one. GREAT way to start…
I would be concerned about encasing a Lithium battery in concrete. Check out the videos on the dangers of lithium batteries then imagine…
A one pound spool of solder is one of your monthly “Subscribe and Save” items.
I happened to think of something from when I was a young kid back in the early 60s: One of the activities at “summer bible school” one year…
In Sun City, AZ, many homes have green-dyed concrete in lieu of grass…
