Digimatic SPC to Arduino

10/14/2015 Update! Now works with Igaging Origin Series Micrometers, Calipers, and Scales. 12/2/2011 Update! We are now reading data from the micrometer, and calculating bin numbers for gear sorting and pump builds. We take 3 samples of a gear, and

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Dennis Ritchie, RIP

Dennis Ritchie, best known as the creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the UNIX operating system, has died at the age of 70 after a long, unspecified, illness. News of his death came from past collaborator, Rob

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Arduino VGA Display

Our Arduino Micrometer Project is off and running. We have the speech module up and running, and now the VGA output module. It’s a simple serial interface and only uses two i/o ports. We are using the PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics

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Making the Arduino talk, beep and sing

A while back we built a Speakjet project for the Arduino. It allowed us to send sound effects, and program robotic speech to the speakers. It wasn’t terribly intuitive, programming it phonetically, so we added a text to speech ship,

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Stepper Motor Project

Since I’m waiting for some more parts to come in for my water level sensor I’m building for our aquaponics project, I thought I’d work on a stepper motor controller. We use these controllers at work, and I wanted to

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The Water Pressure Sensor

This project uses a device called a differential pressure transducer to measure the water pressure at the bottom of the tank, and from that to calculate how full the tank is. Water pressure increases by about 9.8067kPa per meter of

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