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So you've mastered your PCB layout software, and it's time to make the board. But if you don't want to etch your own you've got to decided where to have it fabricated. There's a slew of services out there, most of which you cannot afford, but the short list of those you can is still pretty long. We think this set of PCB fabrication house reviews will help you make your choice. [Ladyada] -- aka … [Read more...]
[Ladyada] has been working on FLORA, her wearable electronics platform, for a few months now. Even though it has just been announced the specs look much better than the previous queen of the hill, the Arduino LilyPad. Going down the spec sheet for both the FLORA and the LilyPad, we see that FLORA has twice as much flash and SRAM as the LilyPad. The LilyPad has more options for I/O, but … [Read more...]
When it comes to learning about microcontrollers, everyone has to start somewhere. [Lady Ada] recently posted a tutorial on burning the Arduino bootloader to standalone chips for those just getting started with the micro. The tutorial cites a common situation, where someone is working on a project using an Arduino chip but they don’t want to sacrifice their dev board when just the micro and a … [Read more...]
If you haven't seen the news already, prolific maker [Limor Fried/Ladyada] is set to grace the cover of WIRED magazine in the upcoming April edition. Not only is it a great day for the hacking/maker community as it puts a bright spotlight on the things we do every day, it's a big day for female engineers as well. While WIRED has been around for 18 years as of this past January, this is the … [Read more...]
The most common email we get is "how do I learn how to hack things?". It looks looks like [ladyada] gets that question a lot too. She didn't waste any time writing up a step by step guide to reverse engineering USB devices, specifically the Kinect. She goes into depth on how USB works, how to record the communication, what to look for, how to deconstruct what you've found, and how to put it all … [Read more...]
[Phillip Torrone], one of the original crew of HackaDay, now working with [LadyAda] tipped us off to this video of her explaining the device they built for configuring the charging circuits to be used with their solar panels. Unlike most of their tutorials, this one is not intended to be a final product sold on their store. Rather, this is a project that helps them deliver the best quality they … [Read more...]
[Ladyada] has been hard at work reverse engineering the charging method used by Apple products. This saga takes us through the years as new devices were released and subsequently broke Minty Boost's charging capabilities. It seems the data lines were gradually adopted as a means for iPhones and iPods to identify the charger that had been connected. By adding voltage dividers to the D+ and D- lines … [Read more...]
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