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    Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

    DIY NES Mods

    I have found a number of good projects from primehacks.com. Here is a series of mods for the NES system.

    … Ah the NES! It’s old but still great. And with a few mods and tweaks, it can get even better. This page resumes what I have done to restore my NES games and [...]

    Monday, January 30th, 2006

    DIY Mouse Modding

    Well, there may be some interest in modding a mouse, so it is important to understand how they work. You may want to control the cursor for some sort of a project. A rollerball mouse has has a ball that rolls on the desktop when you move the mouse. This movement turns [...]

    Saturday, January 28th, 2006

    Fix your old NES

    So I pulled my old NES out of the closet the other day, and started playing the two best games of all time (in my opinion that is), Mike Tyson’s Punch Out, and Techmo football. It made me remember undergrad, and of course when I was a little kid, having to do the magical [...]

    Friday, January 27th, 2006

    DIY LED Flashlight

    Here is a cool site I found through one of my readers at anton.lr2.com. He built a LED flashlight out of a Mini Mag light, and a MAX756 DC-DC Step up. He made his board the size of a AA battery, so he could slide it inside of his mag light. He [...]

    Thursday, January 26th, 2006

    Atmel Programmer

    There has been a good discussion in DIY Live Forums about a possible Atmel Programmer. I was not aware of this because I have never used an Atmel, but Tom the Wombat from superpositioned.com noted that the AVR chips are programmable straight from your serial port. This is good news for me because [...]

    Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

    Sound Card Function Generator

    superpositioned.com is a new site that I found through one of my readers Tom the Wombat. I am very impressed with his work as a DIY site, and I find myself reading it almost every day. I really encourage you to go check out his stuff. Anyway, a function generator is a [...]

    Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

    Altoid can mp3 player

    Here is the “Minty mp3″ player. Limor from ladyada.net designed her own mp3 player that runs off of a CF card. She placed all of her components into an Altoids can.

    This player uses a STA013 MP3 decoder chip, and a PIC18LF452 microcontroller to access all of the file structure. This [...]

    Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

    Call out to all feed readers

    I just wanted to give a call-out to everyone that reads my feeds. Thanks for supporting my site. I have around 600 readers a day now, and I would like to get to know you all. Please come leave a comment on this post and let me know who you are. [...]

    Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

    Spinning LED Clock

    Here is a POV (Persistance of Vision) project that displays a clock. These POV toys have a column of around 7 LEDs. If you spin these LEDs on a motor, and light them all up, you will start to see a solid line of LEDs. Now if you turn the LEDs on [...]

    Monday, January 23rd, 2006

    JDM2 PIC programmer

    The previous PIC programmer that I posted only programs a PIC16F84. You may want to build a PIC programmer that will program a higher variety of PIC chips.

    Ian writes: …Prior to reading sites like www.hackaday.com & www.makezine.com/blog I had worked only with the Amtel/AVR line of microcontrollers. After seeing all the cool projects [...]

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