Do-it-yourself projects and technology updates

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

DIY Flash Diffuser

I have done a lot of photography in my day. I used to be a photographer for Auburn University’s Glomerata (yearbook). I shot a lot of the football games. Here is an example of a photograph that I took.

I used a Nikon D100 with a fixed 300mm 2.8 lens. It was [...]

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

DIY Line Following Robot 2

Introduction:
Well, I have finally had a chance to get over all of my finals, and hopefully did well. I will find out on Monday. Well, as I have promised, here is my next DIY how to project. Beware, it is going to have to be in depth, and long. As any [...]

Friday, November 18th, 2005

DIY Circuit Board

Well, once as a freshman in college at Auburn University (War Eagle, that is just for our big game coming up against Alabama), I wanted to make an expandable memory circuit for my TI-89 graphing calculator. I actually learned to program in high school by playing with an old TI-82. Let me tell [...]

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

How to experience zero gravity

I have said before that I used to work for NASA in Houston, Tx at Johson Space Center. One of my jobs while there was to work at Ellington Field, which is where JSC keeps all of their airplanes. They have a wide variety of planes that are based there, including the Super [...]

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

HowTo: Homer USB Drive

My friend at www.zerosign.net made this, and it is a fun project. Who doesn’t love the simpsons? This would be nice if you had a large storage device, maybe a gig or so. You could store some mp3s on your homer drive. It appears that he designed his red LED to [...]

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Build your own Sega genesis cartridge

How cool would it be to make your own NES cartridges, and use it in your old console. This would be a tough project, and I don’t have the time to tackle it, but if anyone knows of it being done, let me know. I made my own circuit board one time, a [...]

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Spinning LED

This has surely been seen by everyone, but is a neat DIY project nonetheless. I bring this only because I made this a long time ago, as a part of one of my labs in undergrad at Auburn University, and thought it was a really neat project.

The way this works, is you have an [...]

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

Altoids pocket amplifier

This project was featured on Makezine, only they did not show the article. It was just the Flickr pictures of it (at least that is the project I saw). This is a neat project to make, and has several applications. First it could just be to power your headphones, or it could [...]

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

Homebuilt anemometer

This is a cool apparatus for those living in the south or in the tornado alley. For the meteorologist to be this is just right.
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Build a Gps

Here is a how-to project for making your own GPS. This guy takes a LCD from a cell phone, and a GPS unit, and makes everything he needs for his own personal GPS. It seems hard, but what a challenge.
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