ISO 4017 Machine Screws and Fixings
ISO 4017 specifies the form of metric-sized hex head screws, and covers thread diameters from M1.6 up to and including M160.
DIN 931 Bolts and Fixings
When doing anything more mechanical with 3d Printing, you will want to use bolts and other fixings; This is where DIN 931 comes in!
Installing just enough Jupyter Notebook
I don’t like programming, I am not very good at it; yes I can do just enough to make Arduino’s talk SCPI and do other things for me. However, I dislike writing reports in Microsoft Word more (don’t get me…
Are the Engineering Council a good ethics gatekeeper?
I have been a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) for over five years and am slowly working towards becoming a Chartered Engineer. The Engineering Council is the gatekeeper to who can and can not become a Chartered…
DIN 47100 Colours
The DIN Standard, DIN 47100, is used to identify the colour-coding for identifying cores in telecommunication cables.
Setting up BlueOS for a Remote Operated Robot
BlueOS is Blue Robotics Raspberry Pi software to control ROVs, it combines the functionality required to control robots and low-cost hardware
Building up Ian Hughes’ K9 Body
Ian Hughes has done a lot of work on making a 3D-printable K9. Details of Doctor Who’s K-9 and other science-fiction models can be found on his Patreon page. I am currently working on printing the external parts for the…
EMC Charts and Graphs
Plotting EMC limit charts in Microsoft Excel is unfortunately quite hard, Standards like CISPR 11 and CISPR 25 make use of Log/Log graphs.
Adding SCPI to Arduino Test Equipment
Make an item of test equipment that can respond to SCPI (IEEE-488.1) commands. including *IDN?, *OPT? and *TST
Hardware Version Numbers
To encode the Hardware Revision number, so that we know what the version numbers of the main PCB is and is available to the Microcontroller.
Arduino Serial Number
we use the "ArduinoUniqueID" Arduino library, to give us the Unique ID serial number of the Arduino we are using.
More about KL15, KL30, KL31, KL61 etc
KL15, KL30, KL31, KL61 - KL is the abbreviation for 'klemme' which is the German term for connector/connection…