The Gecko stepper motor drivers have arrived, along with my cheap and cheerful dual PCI parallel port card. There should be enough stuff here to make some motors spin, though I’m not going to have any time to play with the new toys until next week.
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It may have been about a decade since my last blog update, but I’ve been plenty busy with cool projects this whole time. A recent burst of…
Here’s another quick and practical project that I knocked off in a couple evenings. My new POC mountain bike helmet has a non-standard venting arrangement, which makes…
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”11″ sortorder=”140,141,134,135,136,137,138,139″ display=”basic_slideshow”]It’s no secret that I can get pretty wrapped up in projects. Witness a “small” project that I took on for a friend,…
I have long wanted to work on some motion-controlled camera rigs, for time lapse and moving video shot purposes. The longest-brewing idea I have had is for…
In an earlier post back at the beginning of this month, I described the beginnings of my DIY microscope illuminator project, dubbed Project AZIZ. At that point…
I did a review, mini-teardown, and test of an imported pneumatic solder paste dispenser that I picked up on eBay. [youtube 9RdAL-ysBhA]
Did it come with a free gecko?
It did come with the free purple beanbag gecko.