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Baby’s First Scope
Much as I’d love to have a proper oscilloscope I’m wise enough to know that spending a couple of hundred quid on a cheapo version is probably a bad idea. This is a tool that warrants some significant...
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Pre-assembled Test LEDs
Here’s a nice little idea I saw somewhere a while ago and have just got round to making. It’s just an LED in series with a 470Ω resistor connected to a pair of 0.1″ pitch posts. Whenever you need to...
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Hacking Lego Motors
Lego Technic Power Function motors are nice and easy to hack for robotics projects – in large part because they come with a built in gearbox so you get nice amounts of torque at low speeds right out of...
View ArticleScience Communication Master-class
Remember when mainstream media channels used to act dumb and/or condescending round science? Stephen Colbert is among a growing cadre of broadcasters who gets it right. Here’s the best layman’s...
View ArticleBuild A Computer From Scratch (Kinda Sorta)
I’m currently part way through a fantastic course on hardware design. It’s called Nand2Tetris and walks through building a simulated computer from the very simplest components (individual transistors)...
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