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First custom PCB
This is my first working printed circuit board. I used the toner transfer method to draw the traces on the copper board. The purpose of...

Philippe Chretien
May 16, 20121 min read


Keypad & LCD Display
While I was still trying to figure out what to do these 10 keypads, I received an LCD Display I ordered on eBay. It’s friday, I have no...

Philippe Chretien
May 11, 20122 min read


Cheap Keypad and Arduino
I just received a package of 10 flexible keypads I bought on eBay for 15.88$, shipping included. Having a keypad in your project opens so...

Philippe Chretien
May 2, 20122 min read


Tweetbot … the code
You can now find the code of the twitter robot on my github at: https://github.com/pchretien/tweetbot Feel free to fork … copying is not...

Philippe Chretien
Apr 17, 20121 min read


Playing With The Beaglebone
I just received my Beaglebone and started experimenting with it. The Beaglebone is a low cost, single board Linux computer with tons of...

Philippe Chretien
Apr 6, 20121 min read


Twitter Controlled Robot
I presented this project at the 28th Montréal Python meeting. I posted the slides of the presentation in my previous post here. The...

Philippe Chretien
Mar 21, 20122 min read


Montreal Python #28
Today at 18:30h, I’ll make a short presentation at the 28th edition of the Montreal Python. I’ll present my PyGame Wireless Game...

Philippe Chretien
Mar 19, 20121 min read


The power of sharing
I just published a derivative to a project on Thingiverse.com (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:18918). I love sharing designs! This is...

Philippe Chretien
Mar 10, 20122 min read


Upgrading the Thing-O-Matic
I may be building a Prusa Mendel, my Makerbot Thing-O-Matic is working full time on my projects. I just received an Aluminum Build...

Philippe Chretien
Feb 23, 20121 min read


Building a Prusa Mendel 3D Printer
Last week I received my Prusa Mendel 3D printer kit from Makergear. I started to build the kit yesterday and after 5 hours here what I...

Philippe Chretien
Feb 13, 20121 min read


Bicycle Quick Release Headlight
I published a new thing on Thiniverse.com http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:13877 This thing is a quick release bicycle headlight using...

Philippe Chretien
Nov 23, 20111 min read


Atmega328 Vcc pin
I received a comment from “N00B” on my Build an Arduino Clone post pointing out a mistake I made by connecting 5V power to the pin #6...

Philippe Chretien
Oct 13, 20111 min read


Stars Trackers
I posted these two barndoor mounts on Thiniverse a few days ago. One is manually operated while the other is motorized. Manual Stars...

Philippe Chretien
Sep 27, 20111 min read


The Maker Faire World in New York
Following the Open Hardware Summit I went to the Maker Faire World in New York city. This event was held in the same location as the OHS,...

Philippe Chretien
Sep 24, 20111 min read


Open Hardware Summit
This was my first time at the ohsummit. The day was filled with great quality talks from speakers of all disciplines. I first want to...

Philippe Chretien
Sep 15, 20112 min read


Parametric Arduino Case
When you make a project using an Arduino board, you often need a case to attach the Arduino onto your project. This small project is my...

Philippe Chretien
Sep 12, 20111 min read


Arduino Motor Controller Using an L293D Chip
Controlling DC motors is at the heart of many robotic projects. Servo motors are sexy but DC motors are cheap and a lot more useful to...

Philippe Chretien
Apr 22, 20114 min read


Wireless Arduino/XBee Game Controller
For this project, I keep the same controller as in the previous post but, instead of controlling a servo motor through a second Arduino,...

Philippe Chretien
Apr 12, 20113 min read


A simple Arduino Task Scheduler (video)
I uploaded a new video to demonstrate the task scheduler in action. In this example I am driving two servo motors, two LEDs and a...

Philippe Chretien
Apr 7, 20111 min read


A Simple Arduino Task Scheduler (1)
My motivation to write a task scheduler framework is to help me faster develop new Arduino projects. In most projects, we repeat the same...

Philippe Chretien
Apr 6, 20113 min read
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