Enjoyed tinkering with LittleBits last evening at the Internet of Things / Open Hardware meetup of RDM Makers and made this remote controlled robot: The schematic is more or less like this: Which shows that power is provided to a Wireless Receiver, which has 2 of its 3 channels connected to the two DC Motors (driving the big wheels). The careful observer will notice some bugs in the schematic representation due to cut-and-paste.
Read more »I plan to do some more soldering in the near future, to experiment with the Internet of Things (IoT). So I checked my equipment for completeness and of course found some stuff desirable. One of them was the The fumeFan to remove the smoke and noxious fumes from soldering. But instead of buying a solution, it would of course be better to Do It Yourself (DIY). Well, it just happened to be that Google and/or YouTube showed me a link to How to: Candy tin fume extractor and it seemed simple enough for me to try and build.
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