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Measuring the Plank Constant With Lego

Something for the weekend: Measuring the Plank Constant With Lego tells how you can do science experiment with LEGO. A Watt balance looks like a double-armed scale where one weight can be compared to another weight of known mass. Instead of using two arms, a Watt balance only has one arm, brought into balance by a

Teleduino IoT API for Arduino

I am interested in Arduino and IoT. Some time ago I visited Teleduino project page that looked really inteesting on this point of view. Teleduino converts en ethernet enabled Arduino into a tool for interacting with devices over the internet. It seemed that with this service I can easily turn an Arduino to an IoT device

GarrettCom Converter Teardown

The main components are BCM5325A2KQMG Ethernet switch, BCM5221A4KPTG Ethernet PHY, HFBR5961LZ fiber transceiver and LM2591HVT-3.3 simple switcher power supply. This looks like quite normal small Ethernet swich design. There is 5 port Ethernet switch IC handling copper ports directly and fiber through PHY IC. This device I opened was broken on power supply circuit. The