Hackaday Links: April 26, 2020
Gosh, what a shame: it turns out that perhaps 2 billion phones won’t be capable of COVID-19 contact-tracing using the API that Google and Apple are jointly developing. The problem is that the scheme...
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Breathtaking Alarm Clock Looks Like it Came From a 1960 Fallout Shelter
All the hardcore geeks have alarm clocks where the bell striker is a hard disk read head… or at least they’ll be building them after seeing this. [Senile Data Systems] created an industrial voltage...
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Scratch-Built Robot Arm Looks Like Something Off the Factory Floor
[Jeremy Fielding] is rightly impressed with the power and precision of industrial robot arms. The big arms that you see welding cars on assembly lines and the like are engineering feats in their own...
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The Mystery of Automatic Lubricators Is Revealed
Industrial machines have all kinds of moving parts that require regular lubrication in order to prevent wear and damage. Historically, these would require regular visits from maintenance personnel to...
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Industrial Robot Gets Open-Source Upgrade
Industrial robots are shockingly expensive when new, typically only affordable for those running factories of some sort. Once they’ve gone through their life cycle building widgets, they can be...
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Humble Arduino As PLC
On the surface, a programmable logic controller (PLC) might seem like nothing more than a generic microcontroller, perhaps outfitted to operate in industrial settings with things like high temperatures...
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Autofeeding CNC Lathe Cranks Out Parts All By Itself
The trouble with building a business around selling low-margin widgets is that you have to find a way to make a lot of them to make it worth your while. And if the widget in question is labor-intensive...
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