Speed of Dark Electronics is a site dedicated to hobby electronics. Focuses include small handy everyday projects to modules designed to easily fit into a much larger design. If it strikes my fancy, it will be here. Browse around, the page is still young, but growing.
If you'd like to submit a project, post it on the forums for review. If folks like what they see, it could be moved onto the main page.



Site News

  • Sun, 28 Mar 2010 -- NanoSolar Update
    Flashback a year or so, and I was extremely excited about a new technology that had emerged on the solar scene:  Screen-printed solar panels that were nearly as efficient as poly-crystalline cells at a fraction of the cost.  Due to the normal trade-secrets and monopolization of design, things have been progressing slowly since the first [...]
  • Thu, 25 Feb 2010 -- Apology
    It was brought to my attention that a trojan had been embedded into my WordPress blog. After some checking around to make sure it wasn’t the content, I found the culprit. It has been dealt with, and measures are being taken to avoid this sort of situation recurring.
  • Sun, 14 Feb 2010 -- Simple PC Control
    Inflater has built a simple control circuit that allows switching of home appliances from a PC.  http://speedofdark.us/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=DexOS.DexOS
  • Sun, 13 Dec 2009 -- LM386 Audio Amplifier
    Simple Audio Amplifier using 6 to 10 components, depending on how serious you are or how much space you have. The chip is readily available and requires a minimum of external components.
  • Thu, 16 Jul 2009 -- DexOS ARM Follow Up
    I’ve been chosen to join the ARM port development team, my hardware is on the way.  To follow the current status of the project, go to http://dex.7.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=4758#4758 .  The board being targeted is a Samsung SOC based Single Board computer with a 3.5″ touch display.  The display can be changed to larger or smaller sizes if [...]
  • Sat, 11 Jul 2009 -- DexOS ARM
    The boys over at DexOS are doing it again, this time with a set of hardware dedicated to the project.  Intel x86 support is not going away, but a new and shiny OS designed for ARM is developing, and is to be targeted for a PDA-sized platform.  Look forward to any number of random devices, [...]
  • Sun, 10 May 2009 -- DexOS Home Automation Project
    DexOS has made a significant leap with an application to showcase it’s full TCP/IP stack implementation and embedded capabilities:  Meet HomeServ, an application that controls some nifty home-brew hardware that turns lights on or off from anywhere in the world.  Rest assured, there is a password involved, and no, it won’t lock your doors or [...]
  • Wed, 22 Apr 2009 -- Absence
    Aplogies for the long quiet time.  A move was in order, and took longer than expected.  Now that most everything is back to normal, the fun will begin again.  Team DexOS is cooking up some good stuff, including home automation and, with my help, RSS tools.  Keep tabs in the DexOS Forums:  http://dex.7.forumer.com .  With [...]
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