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		<title>Pimp Your Chocolates with Arduino IDE and ATTiny13</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/pimp-your-chocolates-with-arduino-ide-and-attiny13/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/pimp-your-chocolates-with-arduino-ide-and-attiny13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way too late for the Valentine&#8217;s Day yet maybe just in time for the Mother&#8217;s Day this year, I&#8217;d like to introduce an electronics project that came about as a result of my reluctance to throw away a nice looking empty box. This year Valentine&#8217;s Day came around just about the time I was playing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eadweard Muybridge, zoetrope (zoopraxiscope) and &#8230; Google?</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/eadweard-muybridge-zoetrope-zoopraxiscope-and-google/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/eadweard-muybridge-zoetrope-zoopraxiscope-and-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[stroboscope]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting the Arduino Stroboscope, one of my recent projects, I had no idea the ancient technique could still have such universal appeal in the age of full-length 3D animated movies. It was a rather pleasant surprise to see Google celebrating today (04-09-2012) the birthday of Eadweard Muybridge, the stop-motion photography pioneer, with a special animated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arduino shrunk &#8211; how to use ATtiny13 with Arduino IDE</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/arduino-shrunk-how-to-use-attiny13-with-arduino-ide/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/arduino-shrunk-how-to-use-attiny13-with-arduino-ide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microcontrollers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=1130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment), currently in version 1.0, is a great system for programming the Arduino boards. It has an easy-to-learn intuitive interface and comes with all the necessary settings for the most common Arduino boards &#8211; Uno, Duemilanove, Nano and others based on ATmega168 and ATmega328 microcontrollers. The latest version also includes some [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Free your Arduino code from the Arduino board</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/free-arduino-code-from-arduino-board/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/free-arduino-code-from-arduino-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[programming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=1098</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arduino as a system is a great development tool that makes it incredibly easy for a beginner to start programming microcontrollers and for a seasoned programmer to whip up a quick code in a hurry or keep a large embedded project organised when needed. I think it is very valuable for a user-friendly development environment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD-CNC. Laser cutter DIY Project. Concept.</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/dvd-cnc-laser-cutter-diy-concept/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/dvd-cnc-laser-cutter-diy-concept/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[CNC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laser Cutting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laser cutter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laser diode]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=1068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DVD-CNC is still very much a project in progress. The purpose of this and the future posts in this series is to present project build notes which will, hopefully, help someone building a similar DIY laser cutting device. The project is not complete but some of the biggest issues have already become apparent. So, if [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>TTL-controlled Laser Diode Driver. Updated schematics.</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/ttl-controlled-laser-diode-driver/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/ttl-controlled-laser-diode-driver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Laser Cutting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lasers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNC laser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laser diode driver]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=1055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the course of my DIY laser cutter project I needed a laser diode driver that I could control with a CNC software, such as EMC2. I&#8217;ve already made an attempt to build one based on Linear Technology&#8217;s LT1121 voltage regulator with Enable input but the driver design that came out was not exactly successful [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>World&#8217;s Smallest Stepper Motor with Arduino and EasyDriver</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/worlds-smallest-stepper-motor-with-arduino-and-easydriver/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/worlds-smallest-stepper-motor-with-arduino-and-easydriver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motor Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teardowns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipolar stepper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This little wonder of electromechanical engineering came from inside a laser diode sled of an HP CT10L Bluray drive I&#8217;ve opened some time ago. The device on the picture consists of several parts, all easily fitting on a dime coin: a bipolar stepper motor with lead screw, a linear stage, a lens, and even an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading a DVD spindle three phase BLDC motor</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/upgrading-a-dvd-spindle-three-phase-bldc-motor/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/upgrading-a-dvd-spindle-three-phase-bldc-motor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Motor Control]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having played with DVD spindle motors during the construction of the Arduino stroboscope, one thing became apparent early on is that these small motors don&#8217;t have much of a torque. I have a few other projects in mind where more torque will be needed and I decided to try upgrading the existing motors with better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brushless DC (BLDC) motor with Arduino. Part 3 &#8211; The Stroboscope Project</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/brushless-dc-bldc-motor-with-arduino-part-3-the-stroboscope-project/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/brushless-dc-bldc-motor-with-arduino-part-3-the-stroboscope-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[arduino]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[brushless DC]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=923</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been all dry theory in the Brushless DC (BLDC) motor with Arduino series up to this point. This is where it gets to be more fun. If you&#8217;ve just arrived, please check out the previous two installments: Driving a three-phase brushless DC motor with Arduino – Part 1. Theory Brushless DC (BLDC) motor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brushless DC (BLDC) motor with Arduino – Part 2. Circuit and Software</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/bldc-motor-with-arduino-circuit-and-software/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/bldc-motor-with-arduino-circuit-and-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motor Control]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post I will describe the hardware and the software part of a project involving the use of BLDC (Brushless DC) motor salvaged from a broken XBox 360. This is a second installment in the series of posts related to Arduino and brushless DC motors. Please see the first part for a bit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blu-Ray Teardown &#8211; HP CT10L BD-ROM / DVD Rewriter</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/blu-ray-teardown-hp-ct10l/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/blu-ray-teardown-hp-ct10l/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lasers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teardowns]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=834</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though it takes me much longer than I anticipated, I&#8217;m still collecting parts for the laser cutter based on broken CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives. This time I decided to open a Blu-ray drive for the first time, never had a working 405nm laser diode harvested from a Blu-ray drive before. This time the broken drive teardown [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Driving a three-phase brushless DC motor with Arduino &#8211; Part 1. Theory</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/brushless-dc-motor-with-arduino/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/brushless-dc-motor-with-arduino/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motor Control]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=514</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first part of what will probably be two (or more) posts describing one of my latest projects &#8211; an Arduino Stroboscope based on the spindle motor of a broken Xbox 360 DVD drive. I will save some practical information (like why I chose Xbox&#8217;s drive) for the second post. Here I wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Arduino Code Tidbits &#8211; #1 &#8211; Declaring an Array with Pin Values</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/arduino-code-tidbits-1-declaring-an-array-with-pin-values/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/arduino-code-tidbits-1-declaring-an-array-with-pin-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while you come to a point in writing a software program where you spend unexpectedly long time trying to write just one line of code correctly. Has it ever happened to you? I had one of those forehead slapping moments a couple of days ago writing a program controlling a brushless [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Serial OLED display and Arduino &#8211; a perfect combination</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/serial-oled-display-and-arduino/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/serial-oled-display-and-arduino/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Displays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product Reviews]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile your MCU, such as Arduino, needs to output some text and this is where you normally start bumping up against its limitations. Unless the MCU is exclusively serving a conventional LCD or other type of display capable of showing text, the display is pretty seriously taxing MCU&#8217;s available instructions cycles, memory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arduino Code Syntax Highlighting Plugin for your WordPress Blog</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/arduino-syntaxhighlighter/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/arduino-syntaxhighlighter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I published the first lines of Arduino code on this site I was not satisfied with the way it looked. I&#8217;ve been using various IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) and advanced text editors for programming for a very long time and have gotten quite used to the software marking various important parts of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arduino Nano and HP5082-7433 vintage 7-segment LED display</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/arduino-nano-and-hp5082-7433-vintage-7-segment-led-display/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/arduino-nano-and-hp5082-7433-vintage-7-segment-led-display/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Displays]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit, I created this 7-segment display project not because I needed a visual output for my next Arduino project but simply because I have a really soft spot for those whimsical big-eyed miniature LED displays. Some 20+ years ago I have hand-soldered hundreds of these little displays at one of my first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FujiFilm FinePix F300EXR &#8211; don&#8217;t delay that upgrade!</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/fujifilm-finepix-f300exr-dont-delay-that-upgrade/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/fujifilm-finepix-f300exr-dont-delay-that-upgrade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 05:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Product Reviews]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I &#8216;ve got myself a new point-and-shoot digital camera &#8211; FujiFilm FinePix F300EXR, pictured above. I&#8217;ve had a great experience with an older FujiFil camera &#8211; FinePix Z &#8211; and thought that you cannot go wrong with these guys, especially given the impressive set of F300EXR features &#8211; 15x optical zoom, 12M Pixels sensor, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Arduino Nano V3.0 &#8211; MCU Development Made Smaller</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/arduino-nano-v3-0-mcu-development-made-smaller/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/arduino-nano-v3-0-mcu-development-made-smaller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product Reviews]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had an opportunity to add a new tool to my MCU development toolbox &#8211; an Arduino Nano V3.0. Newark &#8211; an electronic components distributor &#8211; was kind enough to send this little board for review. Arduino Nano is but one of their range of Arduino boards and shields and its tiny size which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P-38J Lightning &#8211; CNC Files For The Laser Cut Miniature Model</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/p-38j-cnc-files-for-the-miniature-laser-cut-model/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/p-38j-cnc-files-for-the-miniature-laser-cut-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 01:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Laser Cutting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://elabz.com/?p=488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is another model I&#8217;ve designed around the size limitations of Groover&#8217;s micro laser cutter from discarded DVD drives &#8211; 1.5&#8243;x1.5&#8243;. I wanted this model to be in the same scale as my earlier Supermarine Spitfire model &#8211; 1:212 scale after seeing a 1944 photo in Famous Aircraft: The P-38 Lightning (by Gene Gurney) picturing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laser Diode Driver Based on LT1121 Voltage Regulator &#8211; schematic and PCB</title>
		<link>http://elabz.com/laser-diode-driver-based-on-lt1121-voltage-regulator-schematic-and-pcb/</link>
		<comments>http://elabz.com/laser-diode-driver-based-on-lt1121-voltage-regulator-schematic-and-pcb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 21:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Laser Cutting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[01-12-2012 Update This post is kept alive just to hold the old comments &#8211; please see the corrected circuit design here: http://elabz.com/ttl-controlled-laser-diode-driver/ Update I&#8217;m having some issues with overheating of both the LT1121 IC and the R1 potentiometer, so I advise you to approach this design with caution. I will be revising it in near [...]]]></description>
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