Our friend Bob Davis has been working with some Signature Electronic Signs. He didnt like the complex controller that came with the device so he made a controller based on the arduino to control the sign.
Published: January 13th, 2013
Growing up I remember having fun with an old Van de Graaff Generator that lived in a friends basement (his dad was a high school science teacher).
Published: January 13th, 2013
If you follow the instructions on this site you will end up with a Stun Baton which takes a 4 volt battery and converts it to 10,000 volts of sparking fun.
Published: January 13th, 2013
Matt Meerian from Home Brew Electronics has an issue with his basement waterproofing tar seeping into his sum pump pit. As you can imagine cold tar seeping into the pit would cause havoc with the pump and water level detection.
Published: January 13th, 2013
Dave from the EEVblog did a video a few months back that I somehow missed. His new shop is in a building where they seem to through out a ton of stuff.
Published: January 2nd, 2013
Check out this Portable CNC in a Box (translated into English). If you ever wanted to setup a CNC machine in a mall on the weekend at a small booth this would be the ideal machine for that.
Published: January 2nd, 2013
Some people love the sound of Bagpipes, others need to acquire a taste for the sound. If you want to practice your Bagpipe fingering without purchasing a set of pipes now you can use the Open Source Hardware Bagpipes to help you out.
Published: January 2nd, 2013
This Tweeting Cat Door Project uses the new Electric Imp controller. If you havent heard about the Electric Imp before watch the video that Engadget recorded at Maker Fair at their booth.
Published: January 2nd, 2013
If you want to play with line voltage you need to be a lot more careful compared to working with 5 or 12 volts. Viktor has built a nice compact system for easily interfacing line voltage powered items to his DIY projects.
Published: January 2nd, 2013
Most of you have probably seen server rooms with blade servers, it is basically a rack where you can slide in some servers. Paul Ruby Jr. sent in his Dual Computer Custom Desk build where he has two slide in computers except they are drawer size.
Published: December 26th, 2012