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    Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

    Maker Faire

    Well, I sadly won’t be able to go to the Maker Faire. It falls in April, and I have like 8 tests that month. It seems like it is going to be a great event. Pillip Torrone over at Makezine.com should be there, as well as the Myth Busters. I would give anything to go [...]

    Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

    How to Solder

    So you go to start your new DIY project, and you realize, soldering is not as easy as you thought it was going to be. After doing your best, you have cold solder joints that break with the slightest movement. There has to be some secrets to make soldering easy. The answer is that there [...]

    Monday, February 27th, 2006

    IPOD A/V Cable Replacement

    If you have an Audio/Video cable from an old camcorder, you can use that for your ever precious gadget…the IPOD Video. This is a straight- forward connection, no need to solder or use any tools. Basically, A/V Cables has 3 RCA plugs, colored Yellow for Video and Red and White for the Right and Left [...]

    Monday, February 27th, 2006

    Dual Output Power Supply

    I might as well post one of the projects I made. This regulated power supply has 2 output voltages, 5 Volts and 12 Volts using 1 input voltage.The design uses the common 78xx series power supply regulators. Although this project is intended to power up CD-ROMS, this can also be used in other projects needing [...]

    Monday, February 27th, 2006

    Reading Color Coded Resistors

    Hi all, my name is Glenn and i’ll be posting some projects and tutorials which I find interesting here in Greg’s site. I am also running my blog which you can visit here. My first post will be about the BASICS – reading color coded resistors, I know this will be quite boring for some [...]

    Monday, February 27th, 2006

    DIY LED Lighting Guide

    Matthew over at superpositioned.com has written a very good LED lighting guide. He gives several good uses for LEDs, and gives some good circuits to drive them. The article includes why LEDs should be used, how to power LEDs using a DC source, how to power LEDs using an AC source, how to dim LEDs, [...]

    Friday, February 24th, 2006

    Coming Soon – MIDIsense

    Hello All. Greg asked me to contribute something for him today while he was away and I couldn’t say no. My name is Brandon and I run a little blog called zerosign.net where I post about technology and my own personal projects. While I’m at it, I would like to clarify that I am NOT [...]

    Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

    Blogger needed

    DIY Live has been expanding at a fast rate, and so in order to provide more quality updates, I have decided to hire a blogger. I am looking for someone that is tech-savvy, who has a firm foundation in electronics. I need someone that has a master of the English language. The postion is paid, [...]

    Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

    What is a Theremin?

    The Theremin is a very strange instrument that was built in 1919 by Russian Leon Theremin. This instrument was one of the first instruments that could be played solely by not touching the instrument at all. It usually has two antennas. One controls pitch, and the other controls volume. The person playing this instrument simply [...]

    Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

    DIY Lie Detector

    Here is a simple little circuit that I found interesting. It is basically a comparator circuit. It measures changes in resistance. Supposedly if a person is lying then they start to sweat. If a person sweats then the resitance through their skin goes way down. This can be measured by this circuit, and will turn [...]

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