If you are in a plan to build your own speedometer for your next robotic vehicle, ofcourse you need an RPM sensor to complete the task. Today, almost all sensor modules for use with microcontrollers ...

[Rui] recently put the finishing touches on his homemade CNC mill, which utilizes a dremel-like rotary tool. The problem with using rotary tools for this kind of application is you don’t really have ...

Adding an additional fan to your PC is usually pretty straightforward, but as [Randy Elwin] found, this isn’t always the case with the newer Small Form Factor (SFF) machines. Not only was the standard ...

Tachometers directly report angular speed. Some are simple processors that merely digest output from an external sensor or encoder; others are integrated units that combine an encoder or sensor and a ...

So I just bought this nice new switch off Ebay for cheap and it has 4 very loud fans in it. I'd like to replace them with lower noise (and lower flow, I'll take my chances) fans so I can hear myself ...

I just had an Idea. Sure was neat.<P>Make a small (bay/Fan)bus like thing, right? And have another connect on there for RPM sensors, lead that wire to an LCD screen mounted in the front, and using ...