Fix an LCD Monitor

LCD CapacitorsThis is a story of how I was able to fix a broken and long forgotten LCD monitor. This is a cheap CTX monitor, but I’ve seen this method work on other brands of monitors and I think it is a pretty common problem.

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Controlling a Stepper Motor with an Arduino Part 2

arduinoThis is an update to my first post about connecting a stepper motor to an Arduino or other microcontroller.

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Controlling a Stepper Motor with an Arduino

arduino316As one one of my first projects with my new Arduino I thought I would try to hook up a stepper motor. I had a few laying around from old computer hardware I had taken apart and now I finally have the resources to hook them up.

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Hacker Space in Tulsa, Oklahoma?

I’ve been watching the goings on at the several hacker spaces which are popping up around the world. Specifically NYC Resistor has a lot of interesting activities and the Cow Town Computer Congress is a new space that shows a lot of promise. I was looking for something like that going on in my area but [...]