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Hackaday alum [Adam Munich] shot a tutorial video on using a rate gyroscope. Here he's showing off the really fancy piece of ancient (technologically speaking) hardware. It would have set you back about fifteen grand in the 1960's (inflation adjusted) but can be had these days for around $30. What a deal! These are not small, or power efficient when compared to the components that go into … [Read more...]
The Nyan Cat you see above is only 600 micrometers from head to tail. To put that into perspective, that's about 10 times the diameter of a human hair. Also, that Nyan is etched into 200 nanometer thick copper foil and is the work of the HomeCMOS team, who is developing a hobbyist-friendly process to make integrated circuits and MEMS devices at home. The project is far from complete; HomeCMOS … [Read more...]
A friend of [CNLohr's] used the mechanism from an old pocket watch in an art piece, but left him with the enclosure. It's an interesting looking object that feels great in your hand so he decided to fill it with his own electronics, thereby giving it a new life. He's showing off an early version of the hardware in the video, but plans to send off another version of the board soon to add a few … [Read more...]
There's a good chance that you use a MEMS accelerometer every single day. It's the small chip that let your smart phone automatically adjust its screen orientation. They're great chips, and since they're mass-produced you can add them to your projects for a song (if you can abide the tiny packaging). But we have no idea of how they are made and only a inkling of how they work. [Bill Hammack] has … [Read more...]
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