Projects

Shopping list

1. PWM LED driver
2. 5x7 LED driver
3. 7 segment driver
4. CAN bus PIC or interface
5. LIN bus?
6. mom-off-mom toggle (for cruise control)

Art materials & fun parts

• Mouse encoders
• Hard drive parts - disks magnets motors voice coils
• Ultrasonics
• IR motion sensors
• NFC tags
• Solar cells
• Solar panels
• One-wire temperature sensors - got a USB one wire adapter to test the sensors

I got some digital encoders recently...

Audio

• 10W amplifier kit

Automotive

• Toyota Yaris - see that page for full details
• especially the OBD II

Plastics

http://www.danperezstudios.com/works...ng_casting.htm

http://www.resincasting.co.uk/

http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~museum/...old_notes.html

Here is one video, the people who posted this one (http://www.freemansupply.com/ ) have a great series of clips and if you live in the USA, an online store (shipping was too much to canada for me). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQkzWvHRdZ0

(From a friend:) The stuff I use is mostly Alumilite brand, I get the white solid plastic (they have rubbery and foam plastics) as well as the black dye, it only takes like 2 drops of the dye to make parts black. Decent hobby shops should have this as well as silicon. You will also want demolding spray (its essentially a Vaseline aerosol), for me that was the hardest thing to find.

Bicycles

• bottom brackets, Raleigh and Swallow
• Raleigh 8 speed

1. shifter
2. cetma rack
3. powder coat

• Lighting

Communications

• RS422 for Magnavox
• Black phone
• Learn more about Kenwood TH6A
• Radio modems (fleet management or dgps)
• Byonics TinyTrak4
• Byonics MT8000

Computer

• Magnia LCD driver
• Walltops

Linux

• DBus

Database

• MPG / maintenance / trip log
• Bike training - date/distance/notes/which bike/gpx track/map/photos/maintenance log

Electronics, general

Stuff I learned about but have not investigated

• LTC1157 level shifters
• Infineon and Power Integrations power management
• Infineon LED controllers (buck power supplies) See Digikey product info
• Silicon Labs Bluetooth Smart modules, around $12 from Digikey

Misc projects and stuff around the lab

• high brightness LED's
• white LED's
• 10W audio amp
• USB LCD display
• Ultrasonics
• Hall effect
• Electret mikes
• Motorola speakers
• Dad's CMOS clock
• Audrey
• IR Sensors ( WRT54G interface? )
• WRT54G JTAG
• Test RS485 adapter
• LED desk light
• PIC programmer

GIS

• ArcGIS - writing addins in Python
• OpenCV well finding
• Dispatch
• LiDAR garden mapping
• Multiband imagery
• Viewsheds
• GAIA viewer from http://TheCarbonProject.com

House

• Kitchen remodel
• Bathroom remodel
• Watching TV incl remote controls

Navigation

• Scan Magnavox manual
• AgTrak
• Leica GPS
• Magnavox GPS reference station, set up
• Trimble Placer GPS

Web development

• Fiddler