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Hacking Fatherhood 1: Engineering the Laundry

By Rick Pettys | Miscellaneous, Process | 2 comments | 31 May, 2013 | 1

Any good engineer likes it when life throws the conditions their way for a great experiment, and life has just thrown me several all at once.  I have a six-year-old son, a two-year-old son, a six-month-old daughter, and until recently, a two-parent household.  I’m not used to being a single dad of three, but myRead more

Communicating with your Cyclone II FPGA over serial port, Part 3: Number Crunching

By dfohl | Software | 5 comments | 21 May, 2013 | 1

In my first blog post on communicating with the Altera Cyclone II FPGA, I demonstrated how to create a serial echo by simply connecting the Tx wire and the Rx wire together.  Then in my second post I demonstrated how to use third-party libraries and a clock to allow that serial line to be translated into a byteRead more

Can-Am Spyder Diagnostic Hacking 2: Things Don’t Always Follow the Plan

By dsmoot | Hardware | 7 comments | 16 May, 2013 | 3

I finally got another free evening to devote to reverse engineering the Can-Am Spyder diagnostic interface.  For the back story, see part 1 here.  But things did not quite work out like I hoped for tonight’s Spyder hacking. As usual, it is the hardware guy’s fault. First order of business was to build another cableRead more

VEX Robotics Championship – Sack Attack

By alynch | Hardware, Mechanical | 0 comment | 8 May, 2013 | 0

Every year, I try to volunteer at the VEX Robotics World Championship.  This year I volunteered as a Field Technician.  When the field or robots have trouble connecting or technical issues, I was there to help troubleshoot the problem.  As an added bonus, a robotics team that I mentor called the DiscoBots also competed in the event.Read more

SolidWorks: Using Photos as Decals for Quick Renderings

By Dheadley | Mechanical | 0 comment | 1 May, 2013 | 0

SolidWorks is a great tool for designing mechanical parts and assemblies, but I find myself using it as a marketing tool fairly often as well. Whether it is needed for proposals, presentations or just visualizing a new project, I’m often asked “can you just make it look real?”. Luckily when using off the shelf components,Read more

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