In completing my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, one of the courses I’ve got to complete is Senior Capstone. In this course you’re given the option of either selecting a project to be apart of, or proposing your own. I had two of my own projects in mind, one being a CNC hydraulic tubing bender. However, […]
Category: Electronics
Here’s a pretty cool little adjustable power regulator by DROK® I received it today through Amazon. I’m always needing to hunt around my office for a proper power supply to power whatever electronics item I’m playing with at that moment. I’ve got several regulated power supplies, but none of them are adjustable. So this unit […]
I’m fortunate enough to live right down the street from Crystalfontz America (Crystalfontz.com), a supplier of high-quality LCD, OLED and other types of display modules. It is entirely thanks to their sponsorship of the current engineering project I’m apart of, that I now have the opportunity to work with their CFA835 graphical LED displays with […]
Here is a simple, clean and proper solution for doing a full Arduino reset via a simple software function. The general solution was found here and was implemented as follows: Include the proper library: #include <avr/wdt.h> Place this within your “Setup” function: MCUSR = 0; // clear out any flags of prior resets (used for […]