Check out some of the cool stuff and people that are going to be at the Maker Faire! (Including us but we have no idea what to bring…yet)
We will get to play with an electric giraff (hopefully) and meet with submarine maker Mike Wernecke.
You can get some tickets for the ...
Wow, check out this cool AVR ethernet weather station!
My original plan was to have sensors for temperature, air pressure and wind. I started a prototype and it worked very well except for the wind measurement part. I have written a separate article about it: wi ...
Here’s a good list of magazines that should help you get a feel for the engineering industry including application, products, and just for the hell of it.
(It’s also the ones we subscribe to regularly…)
(Click on the magazine to go to their homepage)
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Check out this howto on doubling your battery life by replacing a linear voltage regulator (the thing that converts DC voltage, e.g. from 12V to 5V) to a switching regulator. Switching regulators are way more efficient than your typical off-the-shelve crappy regulators such as ...
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Here’s a really cool project using RFID to simulate a door lock or identification system of some sort.
The design is fairly straight forward, a custom circuit board links the BASIC Stam ...
Wow, check out this awesome window shade that also acts as a solar powered light!
This is a continuation of a project from Design for the 5 Senses that I worked on with Michael Jefferson and Jae In Lee. It’s a window shade that doubles as a light. One set of strings would ...
Here’s a cool little DIY on how to run an AVR MCU on battery made out of lime!
Some of the fruit and vegetables we eat can be used to make electricity. The electrolytes in many fruit and vegetables, together with electrodes made of various metals can be used to make primar ...
Here’s a video demonstrating analog meter control with a Cubloc microcontroller. It’s really easy to do, and adds a retro look to any project. It’s kind of a long video because I’m taking the time to explain everything I’m doing, but it’s a v ...
Check out this cool Wii mod chip that allows you to play backup DVD games on the Wii! At $51, not too shabby for a hack mod.
Unlock your Nintendo Wii. The Wiinja Nintendo Wii Mod Chip is the worlds very first Mod Chip for the Nintendo Wii console. Allowing you to run all N ...
This is freakin’ awesome!
We started experimenting with “row/column scanning”. This term refers to how the columns of shared anodes(+) and rows of shared cathodes(-) in an LED matrix can be quickly turned on and off to control a single LED within the matrix. Because th ...
