Zalophus's DesignHouse

Ever since I started tinkering with Arduino and embedded systems, I’ve been pretty excited about building a self-balancing, Segway-like robot. There’s a wealth of similar projects and resources around the Internet.The first prototype was built inside a plastic lunch box. It used an Arduino Nano and infrared remote control. It used the MPU6050 inertial measurement unit for detecting the orientati..

Features: - ESP8266 WeMos Dq mini module which I finally found good application for (now you can buy better cheap ESPs) - 6 x LEDMatrix module with MAX7219 driver - supplied directly from USB port with USB plug - all data are synchronized every 7-8 minutes - time and date are taken from google.com - weather informations are grabbed from openweather.org JSON api - currency rates are grabbed from ..

This machine, a variation on the hanging-pen plotter is a conspicuous and wilfully naive attempt to break out of the pristine, pixel perfect, colour-corrected space that exists inside our computers. It's a drawing machine, that takes a pen (a human tool) and uses it to draw in a singularly robotic way, with some grand results. It doesn't draw at all like we would (though it could), and we would ..

Stepper Motor is a motor controlled by a series of electromagnetic coils. The center shaft has a series of magnets mounted on it, and the coils surrounding the shaft are alternately given current or not, creating magnetic fields which repulse or attract the magnets on the shaft, causing the motor to rotate. This design allows for very precious control of the motor,There are two basic types of st..

I designed this project for a 10-hour workshop for ChickTech.org whose goal is to introduce teenage women to STEM topics. The goals for this project were:Easy to build.Easy to program.Did something interesting.Low-cost so participants could take it home and continue to learn.With those goals in mind, here were a couple of the design choices:Arduino compatible for ease of programming.4xAA battery..