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newsthumb Saturday 28-6-2008, 17h08: News-writers search
As you might have noticed, Tomzooi is lately not being very active at adding new newsitems to the website. This is due to that I do not have all the time in the world and have a life of my own. For that matter, I am searching for news-writers to help me maintain this young website and boost it to th.....
newsthumb Saturday 21-6-2008, 9h46: Ice found on mars
A month after the remarkable spacecraft named Phoenix landed on Mars, elated earthbound scientists reported Friday that their robot digging tool has uncovered chunks of real ice there - the first hard evidence that water exists on the Red Planet. And although it's ice that evaporates swiftly in t.....
newsthumb Sunday 15-6-2008, 15h03: New fuel to replace oil based fuels
Now here’s an interesting solution to the problem of reducing emissions using the same fleet of cars we have, but by using different fuel. Airplanes need high octane fuel and the octane rating has until now been achieved by adding tetraethyl lead, but that will be outlawed from 2010. Ethanol achieve.....
newsthumb Thursday 12-6-2008, 17h18: Li-Ion battery's in Toyota hybrid cars
Toyota together with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co are currently developing Li-Ion battery's for hybrid car. Nowadays the breaking energy of hybrid cars is stored in heavier Ni-Mh batteries. The use of Li-Ion should mean there is more power and less weight in a car. Li-Ion is already frequen.....

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Dual Motor Driver Thursday 11-6-2009, 19h08: Dual Motor Driver
This is a dual motor driver I designed to use with a breadboard. I chose two l6203 mosfet motor drivers to as a base, and added a bunch of indicator led's. Unfortunately I must have been sleeping or something because there are a few glitches in the pcb design, but I'm sure you won't notice them xD.
TFT stand Monday 27-4-2009, 14h49: TFT stand
Since my new IBM TFT screen also needed a stand besides a new PSU (see last update), I went to work and created this little piece of work.
Tube Power Supply Wednesday 8-4-2009, 22h16: Tube Power Supply
Since my newly acquired IBM TFT touschscreen (five whole Euros) required a power supply I made this power supply. Since it would be standing on my desk I focused more on the looks (which I hope is visible) then normal. The hard things to do were painting a 100mm PVC tube with two stripes, it took ab.....