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Inexpensive MSO

Aug

2009

A friend pointed out this inexpensive MSO. $250 for a lot of capability. Looks like it’d be great for a home lab, or even for light professional work.

Dan asked if I could help him build a series of camera mounts and stabilizers so he could capture video for paintball and canoe jousting. We started out building a simple clamping mount for a waterproof digital camera, intended to be used on canoes to get shots of the paddlers, and of the boats capsizing. ...

Making Chips

May

2009

Now that the machine is here, I decided to do a small project to start my way up the learning curve. For a while I’ve been planning to build a camera mount for our rallycross car so that we can capture some footage of our events. I happened to spy a neat design on someone’s ...

The Eagle Has Landed 2

May

2009

The machine arrived at the Manchester Airport UPS Freight terminal in the wee hours of the morning, and I arranged to have it held so we could pick it up. Dave graciously offered his expert “moving-heavy-stuff” services as well as his truck. We drove up and picked up the machine without a hitch – they ...

Caught the CNC Bug 3

May

2009

I’ve always been fascinated by CNC machines. They fall pretty squarely in the middle of my interests: computers, electronics, mechanical widgets, and makin’ stuff. I was inspired a few years back when I saw a colleague’s home-brew CNC conversion in his basement. I had idle thoughts of doing such a thing myself someday, but the ...

Affordable Digital Scopes 1

Apr

2009

Rigol is a company selling Chinese-made digital scopes for very affordable prices. Their DS1000E/D series is especially interesting, with entry level (50MHz/2channel) units going for as little as $500USD. I ran across these scopes on David L. Jones’s EE Video Blog, which is pretty entertaining. He has a brief review of the scope series and ...

The SOHA Headphone Amplifier

Apr

2009

Back in the summer of 2007, I constructed a kit of the SOHA (Stoopid Op-amp Headphone Amplifier), based on the PCB from Glass Jar Audio. The amp has acted as my workhorse for my office headphone setup since then, and I’ve been quite pleased with it, despite a minor complaint or two.