TinkerSoc projects

projects:arcademachine

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:34:58 +0100

Wouldn't it be cool to have an arcade machine of our own? Why yes, it would. We could even raise some money for a charity with it! This project would involve the following skills: * Woodworking * Electronics interfacing (controls) * Software hacking * Painting and decorating

projects:cmoy

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:52:05 +0100

Based upon the schematics shown by CMoy Tutorial. From that site: " Chu Moy designed a very popular headphone amplifier that’s easy to build, and it can be built small enough to fit in a pocket, power supply and all. It’s powerful enough to drive very inefficient headphones to thunderous volumes from even weak sources, and it sounds excellent considering that you can build a bare-bones CMoy amp for just US$20, and a pretty nice amp for under $50. Considering that the cheapest of the worthy co…

projects:minipov

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:09:53 +0100

* WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING * * !!!UNTESTED!!! * The MiniPOV is a Persistence of Vision toy created by Ladyada. We can see some improvements that could be made to the design to make it more Tinkerer friendly (especially the ones without serial adapters).

projects:motordriver

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:16:15 +0100

MotorDriver v1 This motor driver board has been made which is based on the A3953 Motor Driver IC, which can drive up to 1.2A at up to 50V. All the parts on the board have been chosen such that it retains this ability. The only thing that it does not retain is the motor supply voltage - which is limited to 16V by the decoupling capacitors.

projects:rccar

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:33:08 +0100

We have an RC car which we want to modify to be made of awesome. Email chris [AT] tinkersoc.org to ask to be added to the project-rccar mailing list if you want to get involved! Suggestions on 08/02 Name Manufacturer Product Number Supplier Remarks Quantity Cost Total Power NiMH battery 3700-030 Technobots 2200 mAhr 1 £22.99 Motor drivers Dual Serial Motor Pololu 1503-003 Technobots 1 £20.53 Communications FM Tranciever Farnell ALPHA-TRX868S 2 £06.61 £13.…

projects:tinkerpov

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:25:23 +0100

We <3 the MiniPOV. But we thought that we'd make it a bit easier to get into, by writing a custom firmware that doesn't require you to have the WinAVR/gcc-avr toolchain set up in order to play about with it. Reasoning The way the MiniPOV works is by attaching the control lines on the serial port (normally used to signify when the PC or device are transmitting) to the programming pins of the AVR. In this way, you can waggle the control lines on the serial port and send the right signals to …