Tag: arduino

  • DIy motorised camera slider

    For anyone shooting and editing video, sooner or later you realise a desire to have some more dynamic shots. Simply cutting from one static position to another can only take you so far. Even with a good timelapse, it can add a great deal of visual interest to have the camera moving during the period. …

  • Pan and Tilt webcam mount – Arduino powered

    A long time ago I built a little pan and tilt mount from some scavenged electronics (a stepper motor from a printer and a worm drive from a cd player) I connected it via a parallel port and used darlington arrays and direct pin out of the parallel port to control the whole thing from…

  • DIY CNC Router – Making my first thing! an Arduino Uno box

    If you have been following along at home, then you’ll know that last time I had a successful attempt at engraving a sign. With one main caveat. The backlash on the x-axis was still evident and ran to about 2mm.

  • CNC Electronics : Arduino Uno + GRBL

    After some considerable delay since I first started with the idea of building myself a cnc router, I am now working on the electronics in earnest. 

  • Arduino uno – making electronics easy

    I was having some difficulty understanding what was going wrong with my circuit. This week i got some probes for my oscilloscope, and that at least helped me see that indeed when the servo turned the best, the control signal looked most like a square wave

  • Brighton mini maker faire 20120

    I follow a lot of people that are into making things, and so the various maker faires around the US hit my timeline. I normally feel a pang of jealousy with these as I live in the UK, and have no real chance of attending. But this time had been different, this was a maker…