Do-it-yourself projects and technology updates

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

DIY Lightning Photography

Here is a design for a circuit that will take pictures of lightning. It is basically a light sensor that is amplified and passed through a high pass filter to record fast changes in light, and then attached to a relay that trips the camera. This seems very similar to my design of the external [...]

Monday, July 16th, 2007

DIY Cellular Rotary Phone

I got an email from Alex from over at Tinkerlog.com about his newest project. He has taken a GSM board that has GPS built in, and has connected it to an Atmega 8 microcontroller. That was over my head, so I looked up GSM, and found it in wikipedia to mean: The Global System for [...]

Friday, July 13th, 2007

DIY S-video to RCA converter

I have been researching about converting S-video to RCA lately. I have been watching some videos on my laptop to help me study for Step 2 of my boards. I like to watch the videos on TV because it helps me focus, and keeps the hot laptop off of my lap. The only TV output [...]

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Travel Tightwad

Well, this post may be a little off topic, but oh well. Anyway, my brother has done a lot of traveling around the world (as have I), and he has started a new travel website discussing his travels. He is also going to be talking about easy ways of traveling, and how to go about [...]

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

DIY Sprinkler Timer

This next post was submitted to me, (which is always helpful for anyone to send me stuff, I just have to weed through the spam that I get). This is a pretty simple project, but very effective. I understand what the author says about having to water potted plants twice a day. He lives in [...]

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Stepper motor

I have been doing some research lately on stepper motors, and have thought of some cool projects that could be done for them. I actually had to do some studying on what exactly a stepper motor was, and how they were used. Through my studies I have found some cool sites on them, and wanted [...]

Friday, July 6th, 2007

DIY Laser pong

Here is an amazing project done as a senior design over at Cornell University in Electrical Engineering. I wish I would have had a chance to design something cool like this as my senior design. Anyway, these guys made a wall pong laser game. They have a laser platform that moves, and projects a ball [...]

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

DIY Rechargeable dual voltage supply

Here is a cool DIY project added to my projects section from instructables.com by member Biotele Make a Rechargeable Dual Voltage Power Supply for Electronic Projects Mod a 9V rechargeable battery to give you +3.6V, Ground and -3.6V. You will appreciate this idea if you ever had to clobber together a bunch of AAs or [...]

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

DIY Arduino Setup

Here is a great link sent to me about how to make a DIY Arduino setup. Honestly, I have never heard of this, so I went to the ultra reliable wikipedia, and found this. Arduino is an open source hardware physical computing platform based on a simple I/O board and a development environment that implements [...]

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