CHEARIA is a collaborative activity between Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) of Trento, the local environmental protection agency (APPA) and several high schools of the Trentino-Alto Adige Region, as part of the national training program “work-based learning”. The program was mainly focused on the development of chemoresistive gas sensor arrays produced at FBK, and their use […]
StarTracker camera
Star tracker is an avionic instrument which estimates the attitude of a spacecraft through the stars observation. It is based on a camera to acquire images of the sky, interfaced with a processor, which performs pattern recognition of the stars in the field of view by means of a star catalog to estimate its attitude […]
RedPitaya DPP
Digital Pulse processor based on RedPitaya dev board. The RedPitaya board is utilized as a real-time signal processor for X-ray spectroscopy applications. It is effectively transformed to enable the registration of two independent X-ray spectra by utilizing both high-speed ADC inputs of the board. Hardware The Silicon X-ray sensor is an extremely sensitive device that […]
DomoSens – air quality
DomoSens is a large didactic project targeting developing and market launch of systems for in-door air quality monitoring. The project was conducted in collaboration with schools as part of the ‘Alternating School and Work’ program for high schools. The participants divided into smaller teams according their specialty have been dealing with real-life problems to the […]
SenSat – Remote Gas Monitoring
SenSat is a large didactic project aimed at developing and deploying systems for autonomous air quality monitoring in remote locations, such as mountain cabins and shelters in the Alps. The project was conducted in collaboration with schools as part of the ‘Alternating School and Work’ program for high school students, involving over 280 students. More […]
Remote lenses control
One of the very first systems I designed when I started working with X-ray equipment was an instrument that required manual tuning of a set of optomechanics. However, due to the presence of the X-ray source, the tuning had to be done when the machine was off, making the process extremely time-consuming. So… My first […]
Drumidy 3
Universal audio DSP/MIDI controller/sample synthesizer. If you saw the previus two projects you can easily guess where it is all going Drumidy + Drumidy 2 This is supposed to be the ultimate itteraction of the drumset im working on. The main reason for the new version is mostly the availability of the IC’s on the […]
Bamboo bicycle
My first attempt working with carbon fiber. When I failed to find a decent bicycle for my daugter (apparently kids bikes are not designed for kids), I realized that it is much easier to build one from scratch to get what I want. As a base material I used dried bamboo, small parts are milled […]
Drumidy
Electronic midi drum controller More details published elsewhere: https://hackaday.io/project/176712-drumidy-electronic-midi-drum-controller In this project I have designed and built an electronic midi drumset using a simple 32-bit microcontroller. Drums. Initialy I intended only to upgrade my very basic electronic drumset with better pads (substitute the ruber pads with something more similar to a real instrument).The result was […]
Drumidy 2
Electronic drum synthesizer Fully operational drum synthesizer based on a 32bit microcontrollers. The project is natural continuation of the previous midi controller -> Drumidy In the project I utilize nearly full potential of 32bit microcontrollers to generate realtime audio signal based on a signal from 18 external inputs. The synth uses previously loaded into external […]