Do-it-yourself projects and technology updates

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

DIY Flash Diffuser

I have done a lot of photography in my day. I used to be a photographer for Auburn University’s Glomerata (yearbook). I shot a lot of the football games. Here is an example of a photograph that I took. I used a Nikon D100 with a fixed 300mm 2.8 lens. It was a fantastic lens. [...]

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

Cheap LEDS

I was at Radio Shack the other day, and priced the LEDs, and saw that they were like a dollar a piece. That is a rip off. Every good DIY project requires LEDs, and here is an article that shows how to take the new LED Christmas lights, and get enough to last a long [...]

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Extreme Macro Photography on a budget

[Charles] wrote: This is such a cool article – it’s been written by a friend of mine. He builds a super-photo-macro lens out of a pringles can! How cool is that! …So, you like the idea of doing macro photography, but you think you can’t afford it? Think again – with less than £1 worth [...]

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

DIY Cheap 5v power supply

Here is an awesome project for that worthless computer power supply you have laying around. I was doing a project the other day where I needed 5 volts, and I connected a 9 v battery to a 5 v regulator. I connected something wrong, and it made it really hot, and it burned myself. I [...]

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

DIY Line Following Robot 2

Introduction: Well, I have finally had a chance to get over all of my finals, and hopefully did well. I will find out on Monday. Well, as I have promised, here is my next DIY how to project. Beware, it is going to have to be in depth, and long. As any good engineering project [...]

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Circuit Symbols for Noobs

So you have no idea what you are looking at when you look at circuit diagrams. Well today your in luck. Circuit Symbols With this you will be able to identify different components on a circuit board allowing you to actually know what you are looking at. Posted by Utch (Thanks Utch, this article was [...]

Friday, December 9th, 2005

iPod won’t turn off

I honestly don’t own an ipod. I do have a jukebox multimedia, which lets me put my compact flash card from my camera onto the harddrive. I find that more useful. I have actually only used an iPod once. My fiancee’s brother has one. I was playing with it once, and when I was done, [...]

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

I passed my microbiology exam!!

Hey everyone, sorry for not having great activity on my site lately. Well besides my top ten list, which I stupidly started 2 days before my exam. (Which made it to the first page of digg.com only to be erased by lame 12 yo kids. Maybe it was a lame article, please leave me a [...]

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

Fun Top Ten list

I have been in awe of the commotion on the internet as of late from anything involving an altoids can and an iPod. I have decided to come up with the top ten uses for the altoids can being integrated with the iPod. It does not matter how simple the idea is, if it has [...]

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

Ten uses for the Altoids tin with an Ipod

Well, here is the top ten list for your new iPod this Christmas. There are some really good DIY projects here, and I do plan on making a good one this Christmas break. Hope you enjoy it. For a mock top ten list that is for fun, go here Ipod Fun Top Ten List 1. [...]