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18th May, 2012
What’s Cooking @e-Gizmo- EP 8: Going Audio!
As I mentioned in my earlier blogs, we figured it is time to expand our DIY products to include traditional analog electronics kits as well. The last few weeks, I busied myself designing audio amplifier kits. …Yes, you read it right, audio amplifier kits. It’s not like the local hobby market has a shortage for [...]
22nd Feb, 2012
e-Gizmo turns 8!
e-Gizmo is now on its 8th year of serving the Filipino electronics and robotics geeks. Wow! Thank you! I really don’t know what to say. It is so unreal. Thank you so much for your continuing support! Looking back, the early years of e-Gizmo is not much different from the tales and experiences often foretold [...]
We never stop thinking of ways to make the hobby more enjoyable to you. Of course one good way to make the kit more enjoyable is by providing you one with a lowest possible price. We are in the process of redesigning some more of our popular kits to make them more reliable, at the [...]
20th Jan, 2012
Using Arduino IDE Ver 1.0 with gizDuino
e-Gizmo gizDuino board, an Arduino compatible platform, has a minor issue with the older Arduino IDE ; a resistor R5 has to be added in the reset circuit to make the board work under Windows Operating system. With Arduino IDE running under Linux, this resistor is not needed and must actually be removed . [...]
1st Jan, 2012
What’s Cooking @ e-Gizmo: Ep. 6 – New Kits for 2012
It’s 2012, the year the World ends. Whichever world it is, no one is quite sure yet. Well, it’s life as usual @ e-Gizmo. To start the year off, one of our main-stay product, the gizDuino – not an exact clone, but an Arduino compatible programmable controller board, will take a significant price plunge. Early December 2011, we [...]
22nd Jun, 2011
What’s cooking @ e-Gizmo Ep5: Low Cost Bluetooth Module
For something like a year, I’ve been scouting several supplier of Bluetooth module in search of a more affordable alternative to our existing models. The quest had so far, had been discouraging. I purchased quite a number of samples from several Chinese manufacturers, unlucky me somehow, I always received samples that are either not built [...]
5th May, 2011
Multi-coin Acceptor Debugged
The model 623 multi coin acceptor was made available early this year. It was welcome addition to e-Gizmo product line. In fact, the first few dozen was immediately sold out in just a short while after availability was announced. Things did not went very well for the first few dozens though. To our horror, we [...]
With a gazillion of cheap USB devices abound, one may find it hard to believe why microcontroller fanatics seem to generally ignore these devices in favor of home brew equivalents that eventually cost more. The truth is, they have good reasons to be so. USB devices are cheap, but they require unwieldy programs to set [...]
2nd Dec, 2010
Visual Programming for the Gizduino Mobot Set
Some time after the release of the e-Gizmo Mobile Robot, there was a peculiar software that was discovered (through an informant) which was almost immediately configured for use with the e-Gizmo Mobot. The software, a third-party program called ‘Babuino’, is a program that introduces a simplified and graphical method of mobot programming (a GUI). What [...]
15th Nov, 2010
Electronic Eyes
For purposes of proximity or distance-sensing, the Photo-reflective sensor is amongst the commonly chosen electronic components. As a concrete example of its capabilities, one of the fairly common applications of this sensor can be seen from automatic sliding doors. You may, or unfortunately, may not have had encountered such a peculiar door, but to those [...]