Isopack Blog

2024

• About that Groq demo
• How to buy an AI server on eBay

2023

• Sapphire Rapids for AI: a mini-review
• Assorted video decoding tidbits
• "Phones are getting better": buying a camera in 2023

2022

• The best little telescope that'll never get built
• Image a DLP down through a microscope objective and look at it with a camera through the same objective
• The State of the CPU Market, early 2022

2021

• A Small Astrograph with a Large Payload
• GCA 6100C Wafer Stepper Part 2: the stages
• GCA 6100C Wafer Stepper Part 1: Intro and Maximus 1000 Light Source

2020

• The K39 mini-ITX case
• Cambridge Technology 6230H galvo short teardown

2019

• Extended Schmidt-Cassegrain
• Freefly Systems ARC200 teardown
• 'unitepower.com' 48V 1800W brushless motor teardown
• Feiyu Tech A1000 Gimbal Teardown

2018

• Tiny Camera on a Big Lens
• Field Weakening, Part 2
• IPM's: an overview
• High Speed VCR 2018
• LinuxCNC on Laptops
• Cineforming!
• 'plotter' and 'logger': Cycle by Cycle Data Logging for Motor Controllers
• Fun (?) with an AJA Cion

2017

• 2016 (Third Generation) Smart ForTwo Electric Drive Drive Unit Teardown
• 2013 (Second Generation) Nissan Leaf Drive Unit Teardown
• Field Weakening, Part 1
• Focusing on the Ground
• Obligatory 2017 Eclipse GIF
• Super Plumbing
• IPM Low-Speed Optimization
• Plumbing Electrons
• Sonata Pack Module Testing
• The Motor Equations
• Go-Kart plumbing
• New Go-Kart!
• An interesting scope trace
• Hyundai Sonata Hybrid battery pack teardown
• Characterizing Ryzen R7 overclocking behavior

2016

• Bremsproject Season 2 - Part 1: New Electronics
• View Camera Part 1

2015

• Turning Used Car Parts into Silly Vehicles Part 4: BREMSTHESIS 2
• Turning a Machine Vision Camera into a Digital Cinema Camera
• Turning Used Car Parts into Silly Vehicles Part 3: Totally FOC'ed
• Turning Used Car Parts into Silly Vehicles 2: Prius Brick

2014

• RY40511: a few notes
• Frozen Chainsaw Massacre Part 2: New firmware
• Frozen Chainsaw Massacre: Ryobi RY40511 Cordless 40V Chainsaw on a scooter
• Greenlight HPS Part 3: Planning an Attack
• Greenlight HPS Part 2: First Light
• Greenlight HPS Part 1: Getting to Know You
• Sinusoidal Arduino BLDC controller

2013

• Fun with USB
• So I found this camera on eBay...

2012

• oneTesla: the Kickstarter
• SPUN TOROID
• Miscellaneous oneTesla fluff
• Tesla Tower
• The beginning of something wonderful...
• oneTesla update: Kramnik is magical
• oneTesla update (again)
• oneTesla update
• quadFormer
• oneTesla
• Brickscooter Part II: Buscaps are good, I think
• Induction Heater
• So I decided to build a scooter...
• SR2 part 2
• Fun with a SR-2
• Hysteresis Control Simulations

2011

• Musings about a 600A QCW coil
• Gate Drivers!
• QCW DRSSTC Bus Modulator
• Good morning!