Freelance Tech Journalist / Technical Writer, Engineering Consultant

Jeremy Cook Consulting

Jeremy Cook is a freelance tech journalist and engineering consultant with over 10 years of factory automation experience. An avid maker and experimenter, you can follow him on Twitter, or see his electromechanical exploits on the Jeremy S. Cook YouTube Channel!

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Industrial

For the Professional Maker: Hands-on with the Lattice Modular Embedded Vision Development Kit - Story

May 25, 2018

Machine vision has been around in practical terms since the early 1980s, with experiments in this technology dating back even earlier. In the beginning, even reading a single letter took many seconds.

Consumer

For the Professional Maker: Raspberry Pi helps create a cottage industry of DIY game systems - Story

April 26, 2018

If you grew up in the 80s or 90s, you were likely amazed when devices like the Nintendo Game Boy and Sega Game Gear came onto the scene, enabling you to play versions of Mario or Sonic on the go.

Analog & Power

Camera slider controls upgrade yields valuable prototyping lessons - Story

April 11, 2018

One thing I?ve enjoyed integrating into videos are physically panning shots, taken with a slider. My setup worked well, but the controls were extremely poor.

Consumer

For the Professional Maker: Hands-on with the OSD3358-SM-RED single-board computer - Story

April 03, 2018

These devices cram up to a 1 GHz processor, ADC, Ethernet capabilities, and 1 GB of DDR2 RAM into an enclosure the size of a nickel.

Open Source

For the Professional Maker: Raspberry Pi 3 B+ boosts the Pi 3?s processing and communication capabilities - Product

March 20, 2018

This year, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has stepped its game up with the Pi Model B+.

Industrial

For the Professional Maker: Use stepper motors in your next Arduino MakerPro project - Blog

March 02, 2018

When using an Arduino board, DC motors and hobby servos are relatively easy to control, but stepper motors require a bit more electronic fiddling to get working correctly.

Industrial

For the Professional Maker: Choose the right motor type for your build - Blog

February 19, 2018

When working with MCUs and the like, blinking lights and OLED outputs are fun, but to create something that actually moves, your first choice will normally be a DC motor.

Processing

For the Professional Maker: Sensor options for MCUs - Product

February 01, 2018

While Arduino boards and the like can respond to serial inputs from a computer, to really take advantage of MCUs and their associated development boards, you need an array of sensors.

Processing

For the Professional Maker: Extra hardware needed to get started with the Raspberry Pi Zero - Blog

January 24, 2018

First off, the Pi Zero doesn?t use a standard HDMI connector, or even RCA-style outputs, but needs a mini-HDMI cable.

Open Source

For the Professional Maker: Simple device-to-device communication with the NRF24L01+ module - Other

December 29, 2017

While the NRF24L01+'s range is limited to 100 meters or less line-of-sight, it?s perfect for simple remote control and data transmission applications.

Open Source

For the Professional Maker: Benefits of publishing your work for MakerPros - Other

December 14, 2017

By moving on to the next project or task without reflecting on and recording what we?ve done, we lose some important benefits that we could get from documenting our projects.

IoT

For the Professional Maker: LoRaWAN: Long-Range IoT with no strings attached - Other

December 01, 2017

The LoRaWAN low power wide area network operates on the open radio spectrum, meaning that anyone is free to set up a LoRa network without data transmission fees.

Processing

For the Professional Maker: I?C for Arduino joystick control - Other

November 02, 2017

Instead of buttons, potentiometers, and the like being fed directly into your microprocessor, you can take care of this with a few wires, and the near-ubiquitous I?C protocol.

Consumer

For the Professional Maker: Making a WiFi jack-o-lantern with the WeMos D1 Mini ESP8266 - Other

October 25, 2017

As my first foray into a ?useful? ESP8266 device, I decided to make a pumpkin that can be controlled via a smart device on my local network.

Processing

For the Professional Maker: Control devices and communicate with the I?C bus specification - Other

October 04, 2017

One of the most popular protocols for facilitating integrated circuit communication is I2C. Since October 2006, no licensing fees are needed for implementation of the protocol.

Open Source

For the Professional Maker: Raspberry Pi smart home solutions - Other

September 21, 2017

You can build up your own smart home to your exact specifications for a very reasonable price by using various flavors of Raspberry Pi, available for as little as five dollars.

Open Source
Processing

For the Professional Maker: MakerPro: Custom computer volume control knob and mute button - Blog

August 04, 2017

MakerPro: I found that I had hotkeys on my keyboard that worked for mute and volume control functions, but the ergonomics are lacking.

Processing

For the Professional Maker: The Adafruit Trinket: A Tiny Dev Board for When a Few I/O Pins is Enough - Blog

July 14, 2017

The board features an ATtiny85 microcontroller for processing, giving it 8K of flash memory and five available I/O pins.

Industrial

Show off your robotic prowess with robot-sumo competitions - News

July 06, 2017

[Image by RoboCore Robot Sumo by Paulolenz via Wikimedia Commons, CCA-SA 3.0] In human competition, one could argue that there is no purer expression of sport than pitting one person directly...

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