Do-it-yourself projects and technology updates

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Underwater Submarine

This DIY was submitted by the author, and tells how to build a submarine out of pvc pipes and bilge pumps. The purpose of this device was to make a underwater camera case that evolved into a full controllable machine. This site has lots of pictures and gives some detail about how to build it. [...]

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

Graffiti Robot

Here is a robot car that that writes text using a row of 5 spray cans. I am not sure what it would be used for, but it is still pretty cool. It is based on the technology of a dotmatrix printer. It uses a microcontroller with a stored message, and a timer. It is [...]

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Build your own Microcontroller programmer

Well, this is a pretty neat DIY project. Not super useful these days when you need USB. I have a laptop, and that is all I have. Otherwise, here is a project so you can build your own microcontroller programmer. It is neat just because it can be done, and maybe if you make your [...]

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Robot avoids obstacles

Here is another project from the guys at Cornell university. This is a robot that uses LED sensors to avoid objects. It is pretty cool, and it has a video. These projects are a little difficult for the casual do it yourselfer, but it is fun. It could be done without too much trouble if [...]

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Blog X awards

Hey to any of you that surf my site, and enjoy what you see. I am trying to get bigger, and bring more high quality how-to projects for all to enjoy. One way you can help promote me is to go to Techweb and nominate my site for the awards. (www.diylive.net). Maybe some of you [...]

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

How to make your own Duck Hunt video game

This is one of the coolest things that I have seen in a while. This is way beyond my abilities, of course, I have never taken a class in video output. These guys for an electrical engineering assignment at cornell university, reproduced their own version of the old NES duck hunt. They used two micro [...]

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

HowTo: Homer USB Drive

My friend at www.zerosign.net made this, and it is a fun project. Who doesn’t love the simpsons? This would be nice if you had a large storage device, maybe a gig or so. You could store some mp3s on your homer drive. It appears that he designed his red LED to stay on all the [...]

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Build your own Sega genesis cartridge

How cool would it be to make your own NES cartridges, and use it in your old console. This would be a tough project, and I don’t have the time to tackle it, but if anyone knows of it being done, let me know. I made my own circuit board one time, a long time [...]

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Spinning LED

This has surely been seen by everyone, but is a neat DIY project nonetheless. I bring this only because I made this a long time ago, as a part of one of my labs in undergrad at Auburn University, and thought it was a really neat project. The way this works, is you have an [...]

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

Better Gas mileage

Here is a simple way to increase your gas mileage in your car. Gas has been really expensive lately, and this website [link] states that if you ad 2-3 ounces of acetone to 10 gallons of gas, it will help the gas to vaporize more easily, and will increase your miles per gallon anywhere from [...]

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