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The Rampage Trail Can Utility Tool Box looks like a standard 5-gallon Gerry Can, but is made to store tools and accessories while you’re out on the trail. It comes equipped with a locking lid, a lift-out tool tray, two removable drawers, screw driver storage slots, and has non-slip soft liners. The Trail Can also features heavy duty 14-gauge steel construction and a red powder coated finish for durability.

While FPGAs get all the credit for being the hip new thing, they are inherently digital devices. Without a proper ADC and DAC, you won’t be delving into the analog domain with your programmable logic. Maxim has just put out a chip that does just that: an analog swiss army knife with 20 pins that are configurable as analog to digital converter, digital to analog converters, GPIO, or any mix of the above.

The MAX11300 includes twenty IO ports, each capable of becoming an ADC, DAC, or GPIO, with pairs of ports capable of being configured as a logic level translator or an analog switch. The ADCs and DACs are 12-bit, with input and output ranges from -10V to +10V.

As a nice little bonus, the chip is controlled over SPI, making this an interesting device for a small “do anything analog” tool we’re sure will hit Tindie or Seeed Studio before the year is out. Luckily for whoever would create such a device, Maxim has a nice GUI for configuring each of the 20 pins on their chip, Of course Maxim already offers an evaluation kit for the MAX11300. It’s $100 USD and is Windows only.

The MAX11300 is available in either 40-pin TQFN or 48-pin TQFP packages (with the larger, easier to solder TQFP shipping later) for about $5.80 USD in quantity 1000, or $11.37 in quantity one.Video below showing off the MAX11300 reading and writing analog values to a few pins, and a good look at the configuration software.

Filed under: Microcontrollers, tool hacks

What actually happens when you plug in a USB device?.

Today I started wondering what actually happens when you plug in a USB device. The little tour below goes from starting the USB subsystem to plugging something in, and I hope it is reasonably accurate. This entry is probably best read with a copy of the Linux kernel handy.

Lilith is a NPC who shows up in Borderlands 2. Like most of the characters in that game, she has a memorable design – the kind that attracts the attention of cosplayers. Wind of the Stars put together a Lilith costume and made most of the outfit except for the gun props. She detailed what kind of materials she used for the outfit, and I was interested to read about how much she used dye:

For the pants I used a upholstery vinyl for the chaps with stretch black on the inside to make them formfitting but moveable in. I purchased a pair of jeans second hand, removed the back pockets and dyed them dark grey. Unlike the first Lilith pants, I actually left the chaps and pants separate so that way the chaps didn’t pull down the pants when I kneeled down and such.

The yellow waist wrap is made of yellow stretch knit. I aged it with bleach and dyed it a tan color.

The pink/red undershirt was made for scratch as I felt the time I would spend looking for one to modify I could just make it. I used a white stretch knit to make the shirt. I then dyed it with a variety of pinks, wine, reds, oranges, tans and browns to make it the color you see. I also used some paint in there to get nice and dingy.

The vest was patterned off the old one I made and used the same material. Made the exact same way as the previous one, but this one was just cut up! To prevent the edges from fraying on the one side where it was cut, I used a lighter to melt the edges.

The various arm and hand accessories are made from cotton, pleather, knits and fishnet. Gloves are matte metallic spandex.

She aged the fabric with tan, gray, and black spray paint. She touched up with paint pens and brown fabric dye. She says if the effects look overdone in person, they’ll probably look perfect on camera.

Read more at Wind of the Stars’ blog.

Daniel Debruin share his Analog 3D Printer:

more and more products are being fashioned by means of automated processes. not only are these processes more efficient and therefore cheaper, they also ensure that every item meets the same criteria and does not deviate from the norm. however deviations are usually the most interesting. as with humankind and the rest of nature, true beauty lies in its diversity.
I have always had a fascination for production processes but also for natural phenomena. I want to stay true to both these fascinations and so try to find a balance between control and chance in most of my products.

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Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

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Archival images — sometimes poignant, sometimes playful, invariably tender — of gay and lesbian couples privately celebrating their love in an era that denied it.

Any form of excess can usually be traced to the seed of a basic human longing. Before photography turned into excessive “aesthetic consumerism,” long prior to the narcissistic golden age of the selfie, it was a miraculous medium that granted one simple, fundamental human wish — the desire to be seen and, in the act of seeing, to be understood. Perhaps that is why photography, in its dawning decades, had a particularly poignant role for individuals and groups who were largely invisible to society. It was the role photography played for the LGBT community between the time of the medium’s invention and the first-ever Pride parades as it came to document, and validate by making visible, the love of queer couples — love reserved not only for such famous lovers as Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Oscar Wilde and Sir Alfred “Bosie” Douglas, and Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, but also experienced by a great many ordinary men and women alike.

That’s precisely what French screenwriter and director Sébastien Lifshitz explores in The Invisibles: Vintage Portraits of Love and Pride (public library), a remarkable collection of archival photographs — sometimes poignant, sometimes playful, invariably tender — of gay and lesbian couples privately celebrating their love in the early twentieth century. Each couple, Diane Ackerman wrote in her sublime natural history of love, gets to redefine love, and these are some humble and humbling, beautifully human, immeasurably yet quietly courageous redefinitions

For Lifshitz, the project began somewhat serendipitously: As a longtime collector of vintage amateur photos, he chanced upon a photo album that belonged to two elderly women, “very bourgeois, very ‘old France.’” It didn’t take him long to realize that they were in a lifelong lesbian relationship. He found himself fascinated by such family albums by openly gay couples and was surprised by the freedom and happiness they exhibited in those photos, despite living in eras of extreme social intolerance toward LGBT people. Looking back over the first half of the twentieth century, Lifshitz set out to interview gay women and men born between the two World Wars, seeking to understand what life was like for them — people like the great Edith Windsor, who belongs to that generation and has done for marriage equality more than any other individual in history.

The book is a companion to Lifshitz’s 2012 film, Les Invisibles.

This touching trailer offers a taste:

Complement The Invisibles with history’s most moving LGBT love letters and Edie Windsor on what equality really means.

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3D printed models and virtual surgical planning technologies give surgeons a powerful new tool explore and repair the damage during the most challenging surgeries. Now the National Institutes of Health has launched the NIH 3D Print Exchange

This article US government launches public library for sharing 3D printable medical data is first published at 3ders.org.

The first 3D printed presidential portraits created from 3-D scan data were displayed at the first-ever White House Maker Faire on Wednesday. The 3D printed bust and life mask of Obama, will become part of his presidential depictions in the National Portrait Gallery collection.

This article Barack Obama is the first President to be 3D scanned and printed is first published at 3ders.org.

Some folks have very strong feelings regarding the use of proprietary filament by some 3D printer manufacturers. Are those feelings warranted? 

In the beginning, those with primitive plastic extrusion 3D printers would scramble to find “plastic wire” for their machines from industrial sources. Eventually plastic manufacturers realized there’s a small market for filament specifically designed for personal 3D printers. Filament was plentiful and useable in any 3D printer, so long as the diameter and type of plastic matched. 

But then some manufacturers began producing machines that accepted only their own filament, ensured by various hardware mechanisms and proprietary cartridges. Typically the unit price of the filament by weight was substantially higher than “generic” filament, sometimes by several multiples. 

The reaction from many was obvious: “it’s a money grab”. Some even boycott machines using this approach. But are there other considerations? 

We think so, particularly for consumers. The proprietary filament companies would say: 

• The proprietary filament’s physical qualities, such as diameter and variance can be controlled within specific tolerances.
• The plastic’s chemistry can be designed and consistently maintained.
• The filament feed path’s length and friction can be specifically known.

Because the characteristics of the proprietary spool are completely known and always consistent, the manufacturer can then: 

• Tune the machine’s printing configuration to precisely match the known filament.
• Design the machine’s extruder to provide optimum performance with the known filament.

One manufacturer, 3D Systems, has adapted their proprietary Cube cartridge to even include part of the extruding mechanism, making things significantly simpler and less failure-prone than fiddling with conventional mechanisms. 

So that is the unwritten compact: pay more for a better experience. Or that’s how it’s supposed to go, anyway. It works only if the manufacturer actually does make the experience better. There must be fewer failures, better quality results and an easier to use machine, or it doesn’t make sense.

Located on the corner of a small alley in Torigoe, Tokyo, one can find two shipping containers that appear to have been carelessly stacked on top of one another. On closer inspection, however, a large rear door opens to reveal a modern office and gallery space that stretches over two levels... Continue Reading Double storey container site disguises a modern office space

Section: Architecture

Tags: Construction, Earthquake, Japan, Resistant, Shipping Container, Structure

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When we think of wind power, we generally think of huge wind turbines sitting high atop towers where they can take advantage of the higher wind speeds. But Maryland-based Solar Wind Energy, Inc. is looking to turn wind power on its head with the Solar Wind Downdraft Tower, which places turbines at the base of a tower and generates its own wind to turn them... Continue Reading Solar Wind Energy's Downdraft Tower generates its own wind all year round

Section: Environment

Tags: Electricity, Renewable Energy, Solar Wind Energy Inc, Wind Power, Wind turbine

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From onion peels to kiwi seeds or even bits of chocolate, it seems any canvas is sufficient for Turkish artist Hasan Kale (previously) as long as it meets the requirement of being incredibly tiny. Hasan delights in the challenge of depicting landscapes of his native Istanbul in the most infinitesimal of brush strokes, a feat that requires the use of a magnifying glass to appreciate the details of each piece. While the longevity of each object he paints is questionable, the steadiness of his hand is impressive to witness. See much more over on Facebook. (via Illusion)

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The Twelve24 ClockONE is the world's first E-Ink wall clock. E-Ink is normally used in eBook readers such as the Kindle, but Twelve24 has used it as the basis for the ClockONE ... and with good reason, as E-Ink offers some advantages over more traditional displays. .. Continue Reading Twelve24 ClockONE tells the time with E-Ink

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A group of seven Swedish amateur astronomers have achieved their goal of replicating the Voyager probe's iconic 1979 flyby of Saturn by using images taken with their own ground-based telescopes.

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Patta Sword

• Dated: 18th century
• Place of Origin: South India
• Measurements: overall length: 55.5in (1410mm). Blade length: 39.5in (1000mm) 

Apparently there are only a handful of this type of Patta swords known to exist, this one being an early 18th century from Tamil Nadu. The wooden gauntlet is carved in the form of a crouching tiger.

The tiger face has a sharp human-like nose, with a long curled moustache and sweeping eyebrows. The mane is well defined and the legs tucked up into the body. The curled tail reaches up the back towards neck.

The underside has a large cut-out, very much in the shape of a Mughal archway, reveals the hand grip. Another thinner slot reveals the fore-arm when the sword is held.

There are also two twisted iron rods which have several iron rings freely attached to them, acting as a jingle when the sword is manoeuvred. There are two deeply carved flowers radiating in full bloom either end of the bars, and in many ways mimic the flowers found in silver on the blade.

The blade is very long at 1m. There;s a panel of very fine silver Koftgari on either side. A large blooming flower with drooping leaves, and a large flower-head can be seen at the base of a floral border joining the two.

Source: Copyright © 2014 Akaal Arms

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Two years ago, we first heard about how scientists at Rhode Island's Brown University were developing a biochip for detecting very low concentrations of glucose in saliva. Such a device could make life much easier for diabetics, as it would save them from having to perform fingerprick blood tests. At the time, it was limited to detecting glucose in water. Now, however, it's able to do so within a mixture of water, salts and select enzymes – also known as artificial saliva. .. Continue Reading Device for detecting glucose levels in saliva comes a step closer

Section: Medical

Tags: Brown University, Diabetes, Glucose, Microfluidic

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