Image Sensor For Filling Wine Bottles

A wine bottling company in New Zealand got in touch with [Boz] to solve a problem. They needed a way to automatically determine if a wine bottle was filled or not. What he came up with is a very simple yet very effective fill level sensor that can scan thousands of bottles an hour.There were a few design...
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Mustachioed Rover Simultaneously Manly, Adorable

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[Rick], an Adafruit learning system contributor, is excited by the implications of STEM’s reach into K-12 education. He was inspired to design Red Rover, a low-cost robot that can be easily replicated by anyone with access to a 3-D printer. This adorable autonomous rover is based on the adafruit Trinket microcontroller,...
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Once, Twice, Three Times a Nixie

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Try as he might, [Localroger] can’t seem to throw away a certain board that started life in one of the first digital industrial scales, the NCI DigiFlex model 5775. He recently gave it a third career as a nixie clock with an alarm.[Localroger] says the board dates to about 1975. It’s all TTL, no microprocessor...
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