HowTo: RFID Cat Door
Sure you can go out and buy an automatic car door that opens when your cat gets near it, but that requires your cat to wear a special collar and you need to keep the batteries in the collar in check. Since most pet owners already have identification RFID chips injected into their cats, why [...]
Proper Electronic Enclosures
Picking the right enclosure for your next DIY electronics project can be daunting at best. Sparkfun electronics has a great write up about how to go about getting the right case for your project. They give a great layout of how to get those holes for switches and button just right. They even explain how [...]
416GB Solid State Drive
BitMicro just announced the new E-Disk Altima, it squeezes 416GB into a laptop friendly 2.5 inch enclosure. The drive will operate 24/7 and can withstand temperatures between -40 to 185 while keeping a sustained read/write speed of 100MB/sec. Currently the drive is marketed to the Military. A cost effective 640GB solid state drive isn’t going [...]
