Archive for the ‘Software Hacks’ Category

Posted on January 5, 2012 - by admin

osPID: the Open Source PID Controller – Hack a Day

Need PID control in your next project? Perhaps this little beauty can help. It's an Open Source PID controller that also follows the Open Hardware guidelines. [Brett Beauregard] based the project on the newly minted Arduino …

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osPID: the Open Source PID Controller – Hack a Day

Posted on November 11, 2011 - by admin

LUFA open source USB stack now for NXP ARM processors – Hack …

Looks like the Lightweight USB Framework for AVRs (LUFA) has just been ported for ARM microcontrollers. NXP recently released a package for their LPC Cortex M3 family of ARM controllers.

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Posted on September 14, 2011 - by admin

CheapStat: an open-source potentiostat – Hack a Day

A commercial potentiostat can cost several thousand dollars, but the CheapStat is an open source project that makes it possible to build your own at a tiny fraction of that cost.

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CheapStat: an open-source potentiostat – Hack a Day

Posted on May 10, 2011 - by admin

Cheap open-source pace clock keeps your practice on schedule …

Pace clocks are used in a variety of sports, from swimming to track. The systems are typically expensive however, often beyond the reach of smaller organizations and underfunded programs.

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Cheap open-source pace clock keeps your practice on schedule …

Posted on May 10, 2011 - by admin

Open Source Linear Bearing System – Hack a Day

While we normally don’t make it a habit to feature Kickstarter projects, we couldn’t pass this one up. [Barton Dring] from BuildLog.net is putting together a project called MakerSlide that we’re sure will interest many of you out there.

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Open Source Linear Bearing System – Hack a Day

Posted on April 29, 2011 - by admin

[Phillip Torrone] pleads for companies to open source discontinued …

[PT] just published an editorial calling on manufactures to transfer knowledge about products they are discontinuing by making them open source .

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[Phillip Torrone] pleads for companies to open source discontinued …

Posted on March 28, 2011 - by admin

Open Source Wireless Mesh Networking Energy Meter – Hack a Day

[Jay Kickliter] writes in to tell us about his open source energy/power meter. With his buddy [Frank Lynam] they designed a small device that crams into existing power boxes and uses and 8 core propeller (P8X32A) microcontroller to …

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Open Source Wireless Mesh Networking Energy Meter – Hack a Day

Posted on March 18, 2011 - by admin

Seeed looks for help developing an open source radiation detector …

Seeed Studios, makers of the Seeeduino and fabricators of small-run PCB orders have put out a call to help develop an open source radiation detector. Will it be of any help to people in the area of Japan that is at risk?

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Seeed looks for help developing an open source radiation detector …

Posted on March 18, 2011 - by admin

Junkyard Jumbotron is begging to for an open source project clone …

Idle developers of the world take inspiration from this project and unite to create your own version. It’s called the Junkyard Jumbotron because it takes many different displays and allows them to be used as one big interactive display.

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Posted on March 4, 2011 - by admin

Open source 5-axis CNC router – Hack a Day

This 5-axis CNC router could soon be an open source tool.

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Open source 5-axis CNC router – Hack a Day