Several years ago I was into astrophotography and I ended up building a barn door tracker, or Scotch mount, for use with my camera. For this to work well I also needed a way to trigger my camera without touching…
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How NOT To Use Pushbuttons
I decided to try my hand at making a simple ARM Cortex microcontroller board. I based my board on the ARM Pro Mini design. The ARM Pro Mini uses an NXP ARM Cortex M0 chip, and has the nice feature…
New CNC Router Control Board
Our current CNC router is controlled by an Arduino Uno board with a perfboard shield on top that breaks out the connections to the motor drivers and limit switches. The perfboard solution was hacked together quickly to get the router…
2015 PaxSpace Ornaments
The 2015 PaxSpace Christmas ornaments are here! We have scheduled several group build sessions to work on assembling and programming your ornaments. See the sign up link below for information on dates and times. Click here to sign up for…
Ornament Update – Solder Stencil
The solder paste stencil for the surface mount parts has arrived for the PaxSpace Christmas ornament. The stencil was ordered from OSH Stencils. For more info on the planned PaxSpace ornament, see the earlier blog post here.
‘Tis The Season To Hack Blinky Ornaments
We’ve been working on developing a PaxSpace Christmas ornament this year. A bunch of Christmas ball-shaped PCBs have been designed and are on order from SeeedStudio.com. The plan is that once the finished boards arrive, we will hold several workshops…
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