Category Archives: Ideas

Idle chatter about new product and project ideas.

Michael Walker’s Chronulator

Michael writes about his Chronulator project: The face plate is curly maple. The front edge of the case is hand oiled black walnut, milled from a tree that had to be removed when I built my house. It’s made to … Continue reading

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EAGLE CAD XML export

There was talk on the Interwebs recently of how to make EAGLE interoperate with other products, and getting EAGLE to write out project, schematic, symbol, and other data in XML format. Late last year, I made an EAGLE .ulp file … Continue reading

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The Frankencamera

A year or so, I was getting into digital video cameras and was thinking how great it would be to have an open-source camera platform. The hardware design and low-level driver stuff would be implemented already, so people could easily … Continue reading

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Fantastic.

Beautiful brass and wood Chronulator in steampunk and Art-déco style, by Emmanuel. Continue reading

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Chronulator Gallery

We’ve posted some of our favorite Chronulators in our new Chronulator gallery. We’ll be adding to the gallery as time permits. You can also see (or post) Chronulators on Flickr. If you have a Chronulator and haven’t sent us pictures … Continue reading

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Chronulator Power

UPDATE: Texas Instruments has a neat little video on powering their MSP430 microcontroller from fruits and martinis! The Chronulator uses the same chip, although the meters draw substantially more current — you might need something bigger than a couple of … Continue reading

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USB in Software?

This is awesome. An implementation of USB 1.1 (low-speed) completely in software. Imagine projects with USB interfaces that have no additional, expensive, hard-to-solder ICs… Talk about simple. I gotta do something with this.

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