Do-it-yourself projects and technology updates

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Spinning LED Clock

Here is a POV (Persistance of Vision) project that displays a clock. These POV toys have a column of around 7 LEDs. If you spin these LEDs on a motor, and light them all up, you will start to see a solid line of LEDs. Now if you turn the LEDs on [...]

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

DIY Cell Phone Antenna

I made a decision this year that I was not going to get a land line phone (I have very fast cable internet). I have my cell phone, and my fiancee and I can talk for free between our two phones. (Sadly, she is not in the same city with me [...]

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Ten most needed tools for the electronics DIYer

I decided to write an article on the ten most needed tools for the beginning Electronics DIYer. This is not an all inclusive list, and there are other important tools, but this is a good starting point for anyone interested in starting to play with circuits, and doing their own mods. (These are in [...]

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Programming for Atari 2600

I found this gem from one of my readers over at brainwagon.org He figured out how to program the Atari 2600, which is not an easy task. He made a game that emulates the WWII German encrypter machine called the Enigma. For a little bit of history, an Enigma was a device [...]

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Build your own Segway Scooter

This guy actually built his own version of the 2 wheel segway scooter. It actually seemed to cost a lot of money for the components, so might not be the cheapest DIY project, but is definately cool. He uses an Atmel microcontroller to control his scooter, and uses a Gyro from a camcorder [...]

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

DIY Morse Code switch

I have been helping Rick over at internalmonoblog.com lately on deciding how to make a Morse code switch using a mouse. As any good ham radio operator, it is important to learn Morse code, so Rick found a program that helps teach you. He is using Morse Mania OSX. This program will [...]

Friday, January 6th, 2006

DIY Binary Clock

Here is something I found from one of my readers at superpositioned.com. This is a new site that has some good projects. I encourage you all to check it out. Anyway, he found a binary clock that is built entirely from counters and LEDs. This is a neat project to do, [...]

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

DIY LCD Projector

Well, we have all seen sites on how to make your own DIY projector. It suprising to me though, because just a few years ago while in undergrad, I decided to make my own projector, and it was hard to find info on it. I tried my best, and hacked an old slide [...]

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Long Distance Remote Control

Here is a very thorough article on optical communications. It gives all of the physics behind it as well as many good circuits that one can build. Using the techniques discussed in this article, you could make your TV remote control work a mile a way. It is very interesting.

… The Handbook [...]

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

DIY bike powerd iPod charger

Here is a guy that first connected a handcharger to his ipod. This link can be found here [Link] He did this by taking a hand crank flashlight. His charger actually output a 6 volt current. He used some diodes to keep the ipod from charging the flashlight, and these diodes [...]

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