Tux Machines

Open Hardware/Modding: Adafruit and Arduino

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 29, 2022

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When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked @JSTOR_Daily

↺ When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked @JSTOR_Daily

> The doorbell. The intercom. The elevator. Once upon a time, beginning in the late nineteenth century, pushing the button that activated such devices was a strange new experience. The electric push button, the now mundane-seeming interface between human and machine, was originally a spark for wonder, anxiety, and social transformation.

When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked

↺ When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked

> Ultimately, the idea that electricity was a kind of magic would triumph over a more hands-on, demystifying approach.

Crack combination locks with this nifty robot

↺ Crack combination locks with this nifty robot

> This cracking process works thanks to the mechanics of combination padlocks. While the combination lock on something like a bank vault is very sophisticated, these padlocks have limited space for their mechanisms. They also tend to be cheap. For those reasons, one can feel the mechanisms engaging when stress is on the shackle.

Adafruit ENS160 MOX Gas Sensor

↺ Adafruit ENS160 MOX Gas Sensor

> We’ve of course broken out all the pins to standard headers and added a 3.3V voltage regulator and level shifting to allow you to use it with either 3.3V or 5V systems such as the Arduino Uno, or Feather M4.

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