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New 3D Printer For Sale

There is a new additive thermo plastic printer for sale at PP3D.com.  They call it the UP! printer.  They are selling the first 100 units for $1500 USD, then the price goes up to $2990 USD.  They...

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Pololu Compatible Relay Driver

I just got my production boards for my Pololu compatible relay driver. This is a little plug in module that can be used to drive off board relays. It uses the signals that are normally used for step...

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DIY Jumper Wires

I love using these jumper wires for prototyping. They work great for breadboards and Arduino headers. You can buy them all over the place including SparkFun.  They are available male/male, male/female...

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A Line-us Clone

I have been going to the monthly Amp Hour, Hardware Happy Hour meetup.  A lot of people bring something to show.  My projects are too big.  Also, you need to bring your own power.  The meetup standard...

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Hobby/RC Servo Control in PSoC

  The PSoC family is my go to line of processors for prototyping.  It is like having a breadboard full of digital and analog circuits that you can wire up on the fly. I have been doing some stuff with...

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Line-us Clone Controlled by Easel and Grbl

Last week I made a Line-us drawing robot clone.  Unfortunately I had no good way to make it draw easily.  I thought I would give the CNC toolpath a shot.  My goal is to have a super portable thing to...

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Lost PLA Casting

We recently did some aluminum casting at the Inventables Beer and Making night. The primary mission was to do some lost foam casting, but I wanted to try lost PLA. Beer and Making is typically a...

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X-Controller-Controller (X-Controller minus controller)

I am very happy with the X-Controller.  It packs everything you need to run Grbl into a clean little package.  It is super easy to hook up and move between machines. With that said, I had a quite a...

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PSoC 5 Daughter Card for XCC

I finished a PSoC 5 daughter card design for X-Controller-Controller project.  10 boards should arrive in about a week. This will clean up all the wiring from the breadboard testing I have been doing....

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TWANG32 – An ESP32 Port of TWANG

  I ported the TWANG game over to ESP32. I wanted to do this for several reasons. Cost: The ESP32 is generally lower cost than the Arduino Mega Speed: The ESP32 has a dual core 80MHz processor vs. the...

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