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Electronics Everything / Nothing

Easy, Reversible Motor Control for Arduino (or any Microcontroller)

April 12, 2011March 10, 2015 Rich Olson

I just did another Instructable – Easy, Reversible Motor Control for Arduino (or any Microcontroller) (wow – that’s a mouthful…).

It is the result of my effort to come up with something less annoying to construct than an H-Bridge – using just locally available parts … (read more)

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Electronics Everything / Nothing Lasers

Arduino Powered Laser “Projector”

March 24, 2011March 10, 2015 Rich Olson

This project is a variation of my arduino powered laser show – and honestly it’s not quite as cool. But – I wanted to go down this road to explore a few ideas…

The video really covers all the core technical details:

My original hope … (read more)

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Electronics Everything / Nothing Lasers

Arduino Powered Laser Show

March 16, 2011March 12, 2015 Rich Olson

I have finally gotten around to documenting my Arduino powered laser show that uses audio speakers for Galvos.

Full documentation and source code is available via this Instructable.

Quite happy with the way it works now:

The “home” for this project (and it’s Twitter … (read more)

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Electronics Everything / Nothing Radioactivity

Radon 220 (Thoron) decaying in a cloud chamber

January 20, 2011March 12, 2015 Rich Olson

Find out how to build your own peltier cloud chamber here:
https://nothinglabs.com/cloudchamber/

Turns out my new Thorite sample emits a fair amount of Radon 220 (aka Thoron)…… (read more)

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Electronics Everything / Nothing Radioactivity

Introducing the Nothing Labs Electronic Cloud Chamber

December 1, 2010March 10, 2015 Rich Olson

Click here for more info!

Update: The cloud chamber is currently not for sale – but is being re-engineered as a kit. See https://nothinglabs.com/cloudchamber/ for info on building your own!

Cloud chambers let you see paths left by ionizing radioactive particles. Traces appear as the … (read more)

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Electronics Everything / Nothing Randomness

A short history of Nothing Labs

December 1, 2010March 10, 2015 Rich Olson

I registered nothinglabs.com about 3 years ago with the intent of morphing my translational drift project into some kind of flying toy.

In a more general sense – I wanted to somehow brand myself with something other than my circa-2002 now obsolete totally awesome anti-spam … (read more)

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Electronics Everything / Nothing Lasers

Arduino Powered Homemade Halloween Laser Show

October 30, 2010March 10, 2015 Rich Olson

I got the laser show working pretty well now.

Not shown in video – but it also has a full library of alpha characters – so it’s easy to do text.

Full documentation / schematics coming soon!

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Electronics Everything / Nothing Lasers

More homemade laser show fun

August 27, 2010March 10, 2015 Rich Olson

Made a lot of progress since the last post:

No radical changes – just a bunch of minor tweaks adding up to better performance.

Will publish code / details in the next few weeks.… (read more)

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Electronics Everything / Nothing Lasers

Homemade laser show with homemade galvos

August 21, 2010March 10, 2015 Rich Olson

A week or so ago – I found one of these at Value Village for $2.

If it’s not obvious – it’s a little laser show toy. It projects a laser on the wall which moves with sound / music. Unfortunately they don’t seem to … (read more)

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Electronics Everything / Nothing Radioactivity

More cloud chamber tweaks

May 3, 2010March 10, 2015 Rich Olson

Latest round of design tweaks + some slow motion footage:

… (read more)

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Electronics Everything / Nothing Radioactivity Randomness

Introducing the Nothing Labs blog…

April 27, 2010March 10, 2015 Rich Olson

Hello – my name’s Rich.

“Nothing Labs” is the name I do a handful of things under – some commercial, some fun – some in the gray area between.

I’ve mostly started blogging again so I can easily share things related to the fun stuff … (read more)

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