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See part 2. Recently I had the idea of installing a 12V plug on my Honda vFR800. Its a great bike but having a power [...]
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Recently I DIY'd a mounting solution for a GPS I bought and have been looking to do something similar for [...]
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See Part 1. So following on from Part 1 of this 12V installation, basically I wanted to create a slightly [...]
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Electronics
Part 2: Motorbike 12V Socket Installation – Honda VFR800
See Part 1. So following on from Part 1 of this 12V installation, basically I wanted to create a slightly better finish with the 12V socket rather than just cable tying the socket to my handle bars. Secondly, I wanted to create a more weather proof join for my socket connections. And lastly, I wanted to be able to add additional sockets in the [...]
Part 1: Motorbike 12V Socket Installation – Honda VFR800
See part 2. Recently I had the idea of installing a 12V plug on my Honda vFR800. Its a great bike but having a power source is a pretty handy creature comfort. I have also been thinking of getting myself a gps so a 12V plug would do nicely. Now you can make this as intricate as you want. I've made mine pretty simple particularly as I dont have a [...]
DIY PCB Etching Tank
Lately I have been wanting to get into making my own PCBs which led me to doing a little bit of research on the range of etching tanks on offer. Many of the commercial varieties were a little pricey for my liking and so, I figured I would just make my own using some bits and pieces that are relatively inexpensive from the local pet store. The [...]
DIY UV LED PCB Exposure Box
After having spent some time prototyping on breadboards and vero boards, I thought it was about time to get into making my own PCBs. Initially, I began using the toner transfer method but got quite frustrated with the inconsistent results I was getting. There seemed to be so many factors coming into play to get a good transfer prior to etching [...]
Arduino, iPhone and TouchOSC
Recently I was browsing through some of the sparkfun tutorials and came across a tutorial for controlling an Arduino with an iPhone. Being a total iPhone fan I was pretty enthusiastic to throw my iPhone into the Arduino mix. The tutorial uses the TouchOSC iPhone app to communicate with a Processing sketch over a wifi network, which in turn [...]
Make Your Own Arduino
After having bought a variety of Arduino boards for different projects, I thought it was about time to have a crack at building my own board. If not just for kicks, you might save a little bit of coin in the process. There are a number of resources on the web detailing how to do this and I pasted a few of these below. I used a project tutorial [...]
Arduino – FOB Controlled Servo
This setup is a bit of a pretext to another project I am waiting on some parts for - that is a wireless remote trigger for my Canon EOS 40D with a pan and tilt platform, all controlled from a Nordic FOB. So here I thought I would have a little play around with controlling a single servo via the left and right buttons on the FOB, and turn on an [...]
FOB Controlled H-Bridge Motor with Arduino
This project builds on the nRF24L01+ project I posted earlier, so you may want to check that out if you are not familiar with using the Nordic nRF24L01+ module with chip antenna. Anyway, here I will go through the use of an H-bridge to get some bi-directional control of a little 6V DC motor. Controlling the motor will be done wirelessly using 3 [...]
Arduino + 4051 Multiplexer
So I have talked about doing about this one in a couple of previous posts, and that is freeing up some pin space on your board by using a 4051 as a multiplexer/demultiplexer. As a multiplexer, you will be using this chip to receive and feed inputs (e.g. buttons/potentiometer values) to your board i.e.gathering information. Conversely, you can use [...]
Arduino + 16×2 LCD
For this post I thought I would go through a basic routine that prints keyboard inputs to a 16 by 2 LCD. This is a pretty easy one which uses the LiquidCrystal library. There are a number of detailed examples and diagrams for this one on the Arduino site so feel free to give them a geezer. For some reason, there is something oddly appealing [...]