Ben Heck’s ‘magic smoke’ preventer
It has been said that when an electronics component sets itself on fire that it has “let the magic blue smoke out” and so with it, the magic that makes technology great. In this episode Ben and Felix produce a device to hopefully prevent the “magic smoke” from escaping before any damage is done. The result is a laser-guided infrared grid array sensor, connected via i2c to a microcontroller with mechanical relays to disconnect the power to the device that causes the fire. The project integrates with a Hitachi HD44780 based LCD display to create a menu and interface for calibration with an enclosure designed with Autodesk Fusion 360. Want to produce your own? Or perhaps you have ideas on what you’d do differently? Let The Ben Heck Show team know over on the element14 Community.
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