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July 10, 2007
Typewriter keyboard
Here's a good tutorial on retro-izing a keyboard using some clever photography and sticker making... Link.
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Jul 10, 2007 10:00 PM
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DIY Margarita mixer
Chris created a home-made margarita mixer, made entirely out of junk. At the heart lies an electronic circuit that drives a tachometer with a shift light and fully functioning light tree to practice drag reaction racing times... Link.
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Jul 10, 2007 08:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Making anatomical marionettes
A UK puppet builder has made a really beautiful marionette using the most interesting process - building it from the "skeleton" up using a combination of polymorph plastic, foam and creative paperclay - Link.
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Jul 10, 2007 06:00 PM
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Supaghettoblaster
Kari writes -
I have always been interested in electronics. Building mechanical things hasn't been hard either. Project started somewhere around year 2003 and I began the work by researching what kind of components and circuit are available and how to fullfill the requirements I had in my vision:Supaghettoblaster, Thanks Pekar! Link.* Must be mobile and use battery
* A LOT of power and volume
* Relatively good sound quality
* Plenty of bass ;)
* Party should last long enough and therefore the battery should do it as well!
* And of course it should look absolutely cool
* Internal signal source not required. Just input for MiniDisc, iPod, whatever
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Jul 10, 2007 04:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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monome 40h kits
Brian writes -
we've produced a set of kits to create monome-like devices: a logic kit (the important part, includes pre-flashed atmel chip and all parts, 100% through-hole soldering = easy to assemble) and a keypad kit (includes pcb and our custom keypads). all source files, parts lists, firmware, schematics, and layouts are posted for your better understanding and custom projects. devices made with these kits can take advantage of our continually-growing library of open-source user-contributed software.monome - Link.
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Jul 10, 2007 12:00 PM
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Stupid Wi-Fi speaker tricks
David writes -
The AirPort Express receives the Wi-Fi music signal from iTunes, converts it to analog, and then injects it into the old boombox through a car cassette adapter. The belt raises the tweeters to brighten the sound.Stupid Wi-Fi Speaker Tricks - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog - Link.All components were items I salvaged from closets, including the boombox-with-no-line-input, the Old Belt, and the cassette adapter, which I hadn't used since I'd replaced my factory car stereos.
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Jul 10, 2007 09:00 AM
DIY Projects, Music, Wireless |
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Convert your vintage bike light to LED power
Here's my new bike light, I enlisted the help of LadyAda (We used the MintyBoost's boost converter to get 3.3v)...
This is a quickie project showing how you can upgrade a vintage bike lamp for a '60s or '70s roadster into a powerful 1W LED light. Its much more efficient and a lot brighter!Quickie Projects - Convert your vintage light to LED power - Link.
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Jul 10, 2007 07:00 AM
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Fish tank LED moonlight / moonlighting
Billytkid writes -
This instructable will show you how to safely add LED lighting to a fishtank/vivarium. I've tried previous versions of night / moon lighting in the tank, but none were up to the task:Instructables Fish tank LED moonlight / moonlighting - Link.Moonlight v1 - waterproofed high power LED's attached to the side of the tank - these gave pretty good lighting but there were too many pools of light in the tank, and also the number of wires was pretty unsightly.
Moonlight v2 - Cold cathode lighting (from a PC mod kit) , however as Ive got a large tank (180ltr) and I needed to extend the wires from the cathode tubes to the inverter - however when I did this I found that they no longer worked anywhere near as well (it seems this is a known issue with cathode lights).
So....back to Maplin and moonlights v3 is here!
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Jul 10, 2007 06:00 AM
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BongoPong
Imagitronics writes -
When I first set out to learn electronics several months ago, the first kit that I assembled was the Velleman Pong kit, available at ThinkGeek and numerous other online retailers.imagitronics ยป BongoPong - [via] Link.I knew right away that some day I would find a way to mod this kit and make it my own. A few weeks ago I stumbled across an article on HackADay about a clever hacker who had modified his pong kit to receive input from his flexed arm muscles.
This hack got me thinking about different ways that I could interface with my pong game, but every idea seemed overdone and not very original. Friday afternoon I was driving home from the store when I got the idea of controlling the game using an Indo board (also known as a Bongo board, hence the name).
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Jul 10, 2007 05:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Gaming, Kits |
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Sew Useful contest
REMINDER: The Sew Useful Contest, a joint project of Etsy and Instructables just extended their deadline to July 16th, so there's still plenty of time to get in on the act! Bre and I will be among the judges.
Entries must be "useful" as well as posted on Instructables and Etsy. What counts as useful, you ask? The contest guidelines say: "We are keeping the definition of 'useful' loose because we want to see what you come up with. In general, we take 'useful' to mean something that makes life easier for humans. This could be a tool, a modification of some existing object, or an item that has some practical function." More info on the contest page - Link.
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Jul 10, 2007 12:00 AM
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July 9, 2007
HOW TO - Make your own USB LCD controller
ch424 writes -
This is a guide for making an LCD that connects to your computer using USB, primarily intended to be external. You can see mine here. To make the board smaller, it doesn't have the GPOs.Make your own USB LCD controller! - Link.This thread should also be used for suggestions on how to improve the circuit, add new features, and fix bugs in the firmware.
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Jul 9, 2007 10:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Belt floor mat
Here's a great idea for a (re)make - a floor mat made from old belts... [via] - Link.
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Jul 9, 2007 04:00 PM
Crafts, DIY Projects |
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Super-Yano
Philipp writes -
Super-Yano is an interactive robot I build based on a modificated electronic doll. He is used to tell childrens stories and is capable to speak with text-to-speech, to hear with speech recognition and to see with face detection made with OpenCV.Super-Yano - Link.
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Jul 9, 2007 02:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Robotics |
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Carpet sample projects
Here's are the finalists (and people's choice) from a contest using carpet samples. Best of all, you can dowload a PDF for instructions on how to build most of the items. Thanks ansley - Link.
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Jul 9, 2007 10:00 AM
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HOW TO - Make a monster quartz halogen bike light
Dan writes -
It was a dark and stormy night...and the 3-watt generator lamp was sporadic, cutting out altogether each time a whiff of snow happened to come between its roller and the tire. "There's got to be something better," the mad cyclist thinks to himself as he squints to make out the faint halo of light cast by the 3-watt bottle dynamo generator.HOW TO - Make a monster quartz halogen bike light - Link.That mad cyclist happened to be yours truly, and the above situation real to life--and the inspiration for the MONSTER Quartz Halogen Bike Light!
The cost of this project was somewhere around $100. I say 'around' because I already had some of the hardware!
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Jul 9, 2007 09:00 AM
Bicycles, DIY Projects, Electronics |
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HOW TO - Make conductive glue
Mikey77 shows how to make your own conductive glue and then glue a circuit on clear plastic or any surface... Link.
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Jul 9, 2007 08:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Soy wallets
Soy wallets has (you guessed it) wallets from soy milk containers, they're for sale - but the instructions are at the bottom of the page... Link.
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Jul 9, 2007 07:00 AM
DIY Projects, Green |
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Heathkit schematic diagram archive
Goodness, this is one of the best sites ever - a very large archive of Heathkit schematics... Link.
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Jul 9, 2007 06:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Kits, Retro |
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Flat screen TV quilt
TVs are getting so big that they need quilts made for them when they get cold... actually, it's an entry in the Sew Useful contest, a TV cover to keep the dust off... Here's how to make your own - Link.
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Jul 9, 2007 05:00 AM
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I am not a bomb - talking solar lamps tell you they're not bombs
R. Stern writes -
Inspired by the January Boston ATHF bomb scare, Rees Shad and I have created some publicly-installed solar lamps that proclaim, "I am not a bomb" in one of 12 languages. They are on view in the Kingston, NY Peace Park through October as part of their sculpture biennial. These Declarative Lamps begin speaking and blinking at dusk, and they use the current air temperature to determine how often they speak, much like the way crickets chirp. We've made available our materials list, code, and circuit schematic for public use.Sternlab - Link.
Source and schematic included, outstanding work R. Stern & Rees Shad.
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Jul 9, 2007 04:00 AM
Arts, DIY Projects, Electronics |
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