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Mailbag is back. With bonus soldering and breadboard action, and Whia vs Swisstools shootout! The Postcards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjnZeFE_3Cs http://www.azoteq.com/ Capacitive touch sense IC’s http://gerrysweeney.com/ Podcast: Download

I’ve been told it’s official, the µRuler campaign is the most supported in Pozible history! It has almost cracked 1000% funded with over 1700 supporters! Thanks guys, this is both awesome and frightening. Only a day or so left to get one if you want it:

Dave gives his initial impression on the Rigol DP832 triple output 195W lab power supply. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Due to many requests I’ve finally made the µRuler available through a crowd funded campaign on Pozible: www.pozible.com/project/31806 So if you want a few of them, get in quick before the campaign ends. If it makes the target, the rulers get made, otherwise, they don’t.

Can you determine the charge of an alkaline battery by simply dropping it and see how high it bounces? A followup to the KipKay video It seems KipKay’s video is just a ripoff of this earlier ONE Podcast: Download

Dave tears down and attempts repair on a 1989 vintage Acorn Archimedes A3000 Computer, using the very first ARM processor, the Acorn RISC ARM v2 Service manual HERE Reference Manual HERE Schematics HERE Forum HERE Podcast: Download

How to capture and reverse engineer an infrared IR code and use an Arduino or other microcontroller to replay the command. Oscilloscope and logic analyser capture, coding, troubleshooting, tounge angle, it’s all here. In this instance Dave captures the NEC (Japanese) code from his Canon video camera remote control on …

T-Shirts: 555 Timer Negative Feedback Fluxgate Condenser

Dave wires up an Arduino (Freetronics Eleven) to control his video camera via a learning IR remote control matrix keypad. NOTE: this is NOT an optimised solution, nor a tutorial on the best way to do this, it’s a quick rudimentary hack while showing a few traps. This was the …

I hadn’t heard of an Ignite Talk before my mate Roger told me he was thinking of giving a talk on our autonomous canyon navigating quadcopter idea at the upcoming Ignite Sydney event. Then he suggested I might want to submit a talk topic too, ranting as I do for a …

Dave explains the three main methods of Uninterruptible Power Supply design – Offline, Online, and Line Interactive. And then opens an APC 2200XL rack mount UPS to see how well it matches the classic block diagram theory. Will there be any surprises? Schematic HERE Patent: Method and apparatus for providing …

Dave drops by the Australian RoboWars 2013 competition. Podcast: Download

Dave fiddles with a $19 Hameg HM205-3 combined Analog/Digital Oscilloscope And yes, he’s giving it away. Forum HERE Manual, with Schematics Photos HERE Podcast: Download

Finally there will be a Sydney Maker Faire in November! There will be a public meeting this coming Saturday 10th Aug at the Powerhouse Museum to talk about the in’s and out’s. I’ll be there. I’ll probably give a talk or something at the show too, got any ideas on …

Dave goes back to the future and takes a 1985 vintage Sinclair C5 electric “car” for a spin, one of only a handful in the country. This was Sir Clive Sinclair’s vision for personal transport. Schematic and service manual Micro Men movie The Sinclair Story Delorean & C5 video Podcast: …