September 2013 - The Answer is 27

Ayrton Senna

Ayrton Senna won his second Formula One World Championship using the mystic number 27 in 1990 in a McLaren Honda. Ayrton Senna, one of the […]

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The board is taking shape.

Altimetry, Electronics, PIC

Continuing with the theme of the previous post where we’ve seen COTS data loggers, here I will list all the open source projects I’ve found […]

Before embarking on a new project it is advised to do some research; specially to see if somebody else has done it already and how. […]

Nothing good has ever been reported about the full rotation of a race car about either its pitch or roll axis. —Carroll Smith, “Tune to […]

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Noise is a mayor concern when precise measuring is of utmost importance. Thus, before ordering the PCB I wanted to test the sensor on a […]

I fell in love with the LuminchOne when I saw it last year, and since then I wanted to build my own. Even bought the Luxeon […]

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… others not so much. I mean, compared to a go-kart telemetry system. The easy part: by connecting to the CAN bus in the ECU, […]

In the picture we can see the BMP085 barometric pressure sensor from Bosch and the SOIC packaged PIC18LF14K50.

Altimetry, Electronics, PIC

That’s more or less what I think the board should look like.

Altimetry, Assorted