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My latest project. Life Hack. This how to video will show the way to use a regular 12V car phone charger and a 9V battery to quickly charge your phone.

With all the madness going on in the world right now, a LED sound reactive peace pendant would help radiate some love. Here is a write-up on how to make one.

This is a video on a toaster oven modification for PCB reflow purposes. I got a toaster oven at Walmart for $20 and added a reflow controller called the Controleo from www.whizoo.com. For folks who don’t know what reflowing is, you can read about it here. I wanted to  make some PCBs at home using SMD components, …

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I bought a Dynam Hawk Sky a couple of weeks ago from Nitroplanes.com and hereis a little review.The package was delivered without any issue. The foam parts were packaged well. Plugged in the LiPo to charge on the provided balance charger. The charger gave a wierd high-pitched sound when charging, I guess that was normal as the 2 LEDs were …

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This was a test of the Parrot AR drone using the ROS teleop package controlled from a PC running Ubuntu. The drone has a forward and downward facing camera. Currently working developing ROS packages to conduct image recognition for applications in SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping).

This is the first test of the assembled Ardupilot Mega autopilot board. All the sensors and GPS worked great. It was really cool to see the system tracking on the map in real-time while I drove. I was relieved to see that my soldering was ok, and that I had not fried something while assembling …

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These are a couple of simple Xbee+Arduino wireless projects that I put together. A push button that lights a LED and a light sensor demo. Code – https://www.tinkeringtech.com/p/push-button-example-transmitter-xbee.htmlhttps://www.tinkeringtech.com/p/photoresistor-example-transmitter-xbee.html

I assembled the Ardupilot Mega kit from DIYdrones.com in a couple of evenings. The soldering was not difficult, just had to take care in not applying too much heat onto the board. All the sensors seem to be functioning and the GPS got a fix. DIYdrones is a great place to start on learning all about drones, autopilot systems, …

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A few months ago, some college colleagues and I started work on a prototype for patent number 7,535,358 B2, Method and Apparatus for Electronically Tracking Luggage. This was the Xerox fellowship project that our group had to complete for the semester. Having led the effort and tackling the hardware aspect, I decided to publish a …

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I set out to develop a system that would allow me to monitor the production and consumption of energy for a solar panel set-up. The solution was to use XBEE wireless sensors to capture current/voltage data and relay that to a base station connected to a laptop. The information would then be sent to the …

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