Do-it-yourself projects and technology updates

Monday, August 20th, 2007

DIY Audio Spy Laser

Alen from hackedgadgets.com wrote about this laser listener device. A microphone is simply a diaphragm that vibrates with sound waves. The theory behind this device is that when people are talking in a room, the window will vibrate. If you shine a laser on the window, it will bounce off with the same vibrations. Using [...]

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

LCD Giveaway Contest

John over at hackersbench.com has gotten his hands on a bunch of small lcd screens off of ebay. Trouble is that he has no idea how to use them. He can not find any data on the devices. He decided to host a contest. If anyone can send him the data that he needs to [...]

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

100 DIY sites

Here is a link that was sent to me from a post of 100 DIY sites. It contains do-it-yourself projects from multiple genres. Go see this list here. Do you yearn for self-sufficiency? Is your time and talent larger than your bank account? Then the following sites will appeal to you, as we’ve gathered some [...]

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Craftbits

Well, we have all seen USB flash drives stuffed in various objects. I think I am going to stuff one in my sock and do a write up on it. Nonetheless here is a USB flash drive stuffed in a PEZ dispenser from Katie over at craftbits.com Well, if that doesn’t do much for you, [...]

Monday, August 13th, 2007

DIY Spy Ear reverse engineering

Here is a project that I have often thought of. I hope we have all seen those amplifier spy toys for like a dollar. I have often thought of grabbing one, and using the circuit to make something cool. It would probably work as a headphones amplifier. You could even stick it into an altoids [...]

Monday, August 13th, 2007

DIY Altoids Robot

David Fowler from uchobby.com has designed a simple robot for the beginner DIYer. This robot uses no microcontroller and no difficult circuits. This simple robot will avoid obstacles and simply uses 2 switches, 2 motors, and an altoids can. It is a great weekend experiment for somebody that wants to get their hands wet in [...]

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

DIYer tool kit

Make magazine has come out with a new tool kit for the DIYer. I have looked it over and think that it is a pretty good kit to get anyone started doing DIY electronics. The tools in this kit are very similar to the tools I wrote about in my ten most needed tools for [...]

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

DIY iPhone Hacking

Now I don’t actually own one of these cool iPhones yet. I use t-mobile, and can’t get the phone. I do though enjoy the idea of making the most of your new toys, and exploring the capabilities. I especially like it when you find more capabilities than what it was designed for. Some of the [...]

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

DIY Pong Clock

There is a pong clock screen saver that can be downloaded for your personal PC. This actually plays pong, and the score up top is the time in 24 hr format. Every minute the paddle on the right wins, and every hour the paddle on the left wins. If you stick this on an old [...]

Monday, August 6th, 2007

DIY NES iPod Remote

Well here is a cool DIY project. Instead of buying an expensive iPod remote, why not make your own out of an old NES controller. This takes some PIC microcontroller programming, and is not for the faint of heart. Looks good to me. By embedding a PIC microcontroller into an NES controller, it can be [...]

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