Author Archives: e8johan

Forums and Sites

Posted on January 9, 2012 by e8johan

As a part in our efforts to be a good source of information, we would like to introduce our resources page. Here, we will gather a set of electronic sites that can be useful for you. When browsing the resources, … Continue reading →

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AVR Assembler

Posted on January 6, 2012 by e8johan

Programming in assembler is one of the key skills that I believe all engineers should acquire. It is not very important which architecture, only that one understands the basic language spoken by computers (machine code and assembler usually have a … Continue reading →

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Stories of 2012

Posted on January 4, 2012 by e8johan

The year 2011 was an exciting year for Digital Fanatics, as it marked the birth of the site in a new format. The year 2012 will be even more exciting. We have multiple original series in the pipeline, and will … Continue reading →

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Daruino

Posted on January 2, 2012 by e8johan

The Daruino is an open hardware project aiming to build an Arduino pin-compatible board with a Arm-based CPU. The smallest board is based on the LPC1102 from NXP. This will bring around 50MIPS to a $5 package. The standard board, … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

Posted on December 23, 2011 by e8johan

The end of 2011 is approaching and we at Digital Fanatics wish to thank you all for reading. The news will start flowing again on the other side of the New Years Eve parties. See you all again in January … Continue reading →

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eMaker Huxley – Soldering

Posted on December 21, 2011 by e8johan

The work on assembling the eMaker Huxley 3D printer has been slowed down by other commitments, but now things are moving again. After some five hours of soldering (over several nights) the electronics are fully assembled. When buying the kit, … Continue reading →

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Printing Tangible Objects

Posted on December 19, 2011 by e8johan

I’ve been in contact with a researcher working with tangible user interfaces, TUIs. As a part of his thesis work, he needed handles for his end users to interact with. These handles where printed using a MakerBot. Here is Allen’s … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi Gets an IO-board

Posted on December 16, 2011 by e8johan

The Gertboard, by Gert van Loo, is introduced over at the Pi-site blog. It is an extension board for all the tinkerers out there. It provides LEDs, GPIO, sensor inputs and motor drives. The plan is to sell it alongside … Continue reading →

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Historical Homebrew

Posted on December 14, 2011 by e8johan

How can one understand the present? By studying the past! My copy of The Complete Historically Brewed arrived. As some might know, I’m a collector of old machined. My goal is to have working machines representing most of the major … Continue reading →

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Hacking Servos

Posted on December 9, 2011 by e8johan

The blog Built to Spec has a story on how to hack a standard RC servo into a brushed DC motor controlled. Basically, the trick is to fool the servo logic into believing that the servo is constantly centered. This … Continue reading →

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