Monthly Archives: May 2010

Let there be light!

White led strips are a really good and fast way to add some light to your cupcake

Cupcake CNC with Bluetooth

First thing to do when Cupcake CNC has been built? Making it wireless! I had a few BlueSMiRF Gold modems lying around and i was thinking of using them for Cupcake before I received the kit. Now that the kit is completed I immediately checked the Sanguino board if bluetooth module would fit it without [...]

Cupcake CNC building

I received our Cupcake CNC kit yesterday, yey! Of course I had to build it right away. Normally I don’t look instructions much because most of the time I can figure out how the thing has to be built. Cupcake however had so many parts that I just felt lazy and followed build instructions from [...]

Dymo modification in pictures

Battery operated dymo modified to use power adapter. Cover modification for wires soldering new wires

Demoscene goes hardware

I’ve been a part of demoscene for twenty something years now and altough i have not been very active in demomaking for the past 7 years or so I still actively take part on Finnish demoparties and help organize few of them (namely Assembly and Altparty). For few years I’ve been finding the doings of [...]

ATMega shortage + counterfeits

There has been a serious shortage of ATMega328 chips lately. I think it started late last year and it is still affecting distributors. We have had a pending order for ATMega328 for few months and now it seems the lead time estimate is that we are finally going to receive some chips in few weeks! [...]