This OWI robot arm has been hacked to add position sensors and Arduino control. [Chris Anderson] took one look at the Launchpad controlled OWI from earlier today and said “wait a minute, I’ve ...

Because of the affordability and seeming ubiquity of the Arduino platform, they have been hard at work this last month trying to get their Geiger counter sensor board for an Arduino out the door.

Renesas is claiming “total stray field immunity” for a automotive-grade magnet-free inductive rotation position sensor that works up to what the company describes as “600,000rpm (electrical)”. “We are ...