This particular table has been all over the internet for years, but I had never found any details on the mechanics that make it work. This video provides some details about the parts that allow all the table segments to move fluidly from the small to the large shape and Read more
Krzysztof Foltman writes: “Another PCB sent to manufacturing. This time, it’s a universal 5x5cm protoboard. If you’re a beginner at electronics and want to try making a simple electronic circuit using standard through-the-hole components, it’s probably going to save you a lot of time. It’s compatible with DIL chips but also Read more
In the past few weeks, Stijn and Krzysztof have been playing with FPGA chips. Progress has been made! Stijn has created a servicable text-mode VGA setup: Eventually, a component like this will be used for quick debugging of FPGA internals and/or GUI’s for the upcoming FPGA-hosting Goldfish device. For now it Read more
After using our V1 prototyping boards for a while we decided to design some improved versions to make future experiments easier. This new board is focussed on mostly analog setups: It features a switchable supply between USB and external power and an area for SOIC MCU’s and CODECs. This board Read more
Hongkong – looking back from the Avenue of the Stars back in to Nathan Road: Our view from the apartment in Shenzhen:
The fishponds are harmless. The chinese empire has new plans: We are not sure what we are supposed to do with these metro-doors:
We were already spotted on the platform of the metrostation “Are you coming for Maker Faire?” – “yes” – “Follow me, I show you”. It must be our geek-sjiek attitude.. Just out of the station there were many of the Maker-red-robots, drones in the air and a rather large Bumblebee Read more
Tonight we will start Twittering like crazy to get the engines going. The stars are out over Amsterdam, spring is in the air and it is a good day for a launch! On This Is Not Rocket Science you can already find descriptions of several projects we have already started; Read more
Krzysztof Foltman has posted his FPGA efforts so far on GitHub! Currently the codebase contains modules to deal with: – key-matrix input – LED output with brightness control – Serial port input and output – SPI flash – Quad-SPI flash (4 times as fast as regular SPI) No doubt this will Read more
Let’s make some noise! Most development starts in a very cushy environment with great debugging support. Goldfish once started in the Jeskola Buzz virtual studio platform so I could quickly test and optimize the algorithms without having to upload and install the binaries on a PocketPC. The Goldfish and Platinumfish synthesizer plugins Read more