By Bajdi on February 16, 2014
Bought me a set of mini Iphone lenses on Ebay, cost less then 10€. Since the viewing angle of the Raspberry Pi camera is pretty narrow I decided to try out a wide angle lens. My camera board is fitted to a pan/tilt kit on my Service droid robot. The narrow viewing angle makes it […]
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By Bajdi on February 2, 2014
There are different types of DC-DC regulators. The most common are linear and switch mode regulators. Everyone that has tinkered with electronics has probably used a 78xx series linear regulator. They are easy to use since they don’t need any special components. With most linear regulators you just put a capacitor on the input and […]
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By Bajdi on January 30, 2014
Yesterdag I received another small package from China. Inside it was the Iteaduino Lite. It’s an Arduino clone developed by Iteadstudio. They claim that it’s “the most inexpensive full-sized Arduino derivative board”. I paid 5$ for it on Indiegogo, the early bird price. The current price on the Iteadstudio website is 8$. The special thing […]
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