Do-it-yourself projects and technology updates

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

DIY NES gamepad mod

Well, silas from my diylive instructables section modded another NES controller. He used to love his old NES game pad, but as all of us have realized, it is much too big and cumbersome. He liked the features of it thous. The turbo option was one of his favorites. He decide to attach his NES [...]

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

NES controller LEDs

So, I am finally making use of my projects section. I have a DIY Live projects section over at instructables.com. Silas had decided that he wanted to add LEDs to his NES controller, so that is exactly what he did. So I’ve noticed that there’s “alot” of people, talking about how they would add LED’s [...]

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

DIY touch screen sprinkler system

Well here is another interesting project from what seems to be a new site. Max from zedomax.com has done some interesting projects. This one is a touch screen control for your lawn sprinkler system. I guess there are different settings for a sprinkler system other than just on and off. Couple months ago, my friend’s [...]

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

DIY G-meter

Here is a good little project. You can make a G-meter to measure how many G’s your car is pulling. A neater use is if you are a private pilot, you could measure how many G’s you are pulling while flying. Parts List: 1 Buffered 3D Accelerometer $35 Available at DimensionEngineering 1 CB220 Start Kit [...]

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Get parts for your next DIY project

Got some archaic electronic device that you are about to toss in the trash? Well, if you are like David from www.uchobby.com, you could just gut it, and use the parts for your next DIY electronics project. Probably one of the best things is to get the transformers from the power supply. He uses a [...]

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Cell phone to iPod charger

Here is a good little project to re-use that old cell phone charger. You can turn it into a DIY project. You can turn it into an iPod charger. Just make sure that you are outputting 5V, or you may turn your iPod into a fryPod. Problem: My Mother-in-law has an Apple iPod Shuffle, but [...]

Friday, August 11th, 2006

Leave comments

Well, I was trying to curb spam, and made it where leaving comments could only be done by registering. Well, the only thing that did was to eliminate all comments. I still was overrun with spam. Now you can once again leave a comment without having to log in. I will work on getting some [...]

Friday, August 11th, 2006

DIY lawn mower generator

Well, I have had a new interest sparked lately. I have been having a discussion on DIY Live Forums about generators, and charging batteries with a generator. I will admit at the beginning that this is new knowledge of mine, but I decided to just do some out loud brainstorming. I discussed on the forums [...]

Monday, August 7th, 2006

DIY Projects section

It has been a while since I have mentioned the DIY projects section. I have teamed up with instructables.com who has agreed to host projects for DIY Live. If you have any good projects, feel free to join the DIY Live section of insctuctables.com and post them. I will post them to my site. I [...]

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Simple AM radio

My friend GrendelT from neodux.com made a great little project. He made prob. one of the simplest AM radios around. All you need is an earpiece, and a diode. You can actually make your own diode out of a safety pin, and a razorblade. Check out the discussion on this project at DIY Live forums. [...]

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