The self driving car is just around the corner if you ask Elon Musk. He promises a "Summon" feature that will let your Tesla drive autonomously and pick you up anywhere, and most people envision a car that can make every driving decision by itself. The reality is that humans …


It's a great time to be developing your own circuit boards and electronics projects! There are so many excellent free tools out there, such as Upverter and CircuitMaker that let you design circuit boards and send them out to be manufactured. While this EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software is improving …

One of the easiest ways to build up a mechanical frame is to use Aluminum Extrusions, which look something like this: This type of aluminum tubing is also known as T-Slotted Extrusion, for the name of the channels on the sides where you are able to attach the nuts and …


In this series of posts, I will present my adventure of building a self balancing scooter, similar to a Segway. This has become significantly easier in recent times because of the easy availability of the crucial components: Electric motors powerful and fast enough to carry a human Batteries with low …


Introduction Before the days of MEMS gyroscopes and advanced electronics, engineers still had a need for stabilization in the systems they were controlling. One example of this was stabilizing torpedoes as they were fired towards enemy ships. I was able to find this excellent specimen on eBay: Gearbox From all …

Introduction If you are developing an XNA game for Windows Phone 7, you probably want an effective way to load your game’s content in the background while still presenting a screen to the user. This screen itself should use minimal resources, as you don’t want to slow down …