Now we are ready to bring all the parts together and construct the GPS-driven, FPGA-decoded Nixie tube speedometer for use in a 1953 International pickup truck.
Here's an image of the week and a joke of the week. Also, this week's live online chat takes place Thursday, June 20, at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT).
Duane is now poised to use his I2C interface to send commands to the driver boards controlling his robot avatar's motors.
The Open Hardware Repository (OHR) has proven the feasibility of its open-but-commercial vision. More than 100 projects are hosted by the OHR, which is promoted by eleven research institutes and sixteen commercial companies.
If you ask most people if they can explain how mirrors work, their knee-jerk reaction will be, "Yes, of course!" After reading this blog they may change their minds...