The TriFet is a 3-nMOS one direction motor driver rated for up to 60A of continuous current. This motor driver is perfect driving high-current solenoids, motors, small electric vehicles, and other high current switching applications. I have released this design…
Yearly Archives: 2012
Project Updates
Want to receive project update emails every once in a while when we release updates to ProtoFusion projects? Send an email to e@ethanzonca.com or drop a comment and I’ll add you to the list. Once our newsletter is properly configured,…
Posted in Announcements
Maker Faire Detroit ’12
Check out the ProtoFusion booth at the Detroit Maker Faire on July 28-29 at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI! We’ll be showing off our Luma music-synchronized lighting nodes and our inexpensive PID system for espresso machines.
MNL Updates
Luma Node Revision 3 Luma high-power RGB controller boards just got back from the fab, and we’ve populated and tested the first of the boards. The new boards include a 3-pin fan connector (power, ground, and tach) as well as…
A2 Mini Maker Faire
We had a great time at the Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire this weekend exhibiting our music-synced networked lighting system (with some pretty awesome last-minute paper cone diffusers). Want to learn more about the project? Check out our latest project…
SlatePermutate.org Launched!
The new official deployment of SlatePermutate is now live on slatepermutate.org! Course data is available for the following institutions, with more to come soon: Calvin College Cedarville University Community College of Baltimore County Hope College Michigan State University University of…
Posted in Announcements
Gaggia Classic Disassembly and Cleaning
I recently purchased a used Gaggia Classic machine on Amazon. After realizing that it was not as “lightly used” as the seller denoted, I took apart the entire machine to clean it up. I’ve written this guide as a teardown…
Configuring BOPM for TorDNSEL
Background If you have a working BOPM installation, you are trying to prevent abuses of your IRC network effected through anonymity services such as proxies. BOPM has built-in support for scanning for open proxies. It also has support for looking…
Tagged with: bopm, dnsbl, irc, ircd, tor, tordnsel, unrealircd
Posted in Linux, Quick Tips, Technology
Posted in Linux, Quick Tips, Technology
Arduino Leonardo – Interrupts
As of Arduino 1.0, interrupts are not supported on the Arduino Leonardo. I’m working on a project using the atmega32u4 with the Arduino IDE which needs interrupt support for both software serial and frequency counting, so I investigated ways to…