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Here’s a way to make your old skateboard to work during your cold winter holidays! I’d make one myself with my old skateboards but here in Cali, we have no frozen lakes…
Your screaming steel blades carve the ice. Your straining kite hurls you along at incredible speeds. You are mere inches above the ice. Or suddenly wiping out all
Here’s the guts of wii dissected by Sparkfun team showing all the parts including some type of I2C interface and Broadcom wireless solution as you can see in the above pics.
U7849 6Q63 could be anything. All those flat round things (330, 100, 4R7) are inductors 33uH, 10uH, and 4.7uH. These are predominantly used for DC to DC step-up or step-down (also called boost and buck
Here are some super bike lights you can build using some parts from Home Depot!
I’ve been using this headlight for 4 years now and I’m still using the original bulbs. The low beam has power enough for speeds up to 40 miles per hour and on-coming traffic ALWAYS dims their brights when I flash the 50-watt high beam.
This one is made of 120 super-bright
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Yes, if you can make this, you are a genius and probably graduated from MIT. Props to Rick. 🙂
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Here’s a video of how an electronic drum would work if you made one. This one if cool as it’s a “sponge” drum.
I made a “home made Drum” out of a guitar pickup and a string installed within a piece of sponge. I use Reaktor to translate the signal with its amplitube to snare drums. Each punch, with sound a snare drum (not the same snare all the time, it changes after every puch) and it has a the amplitude of the punch. It is very sensitive and there are some great stuff i can do with the reaktor , like settin
If you are trying to make any one of our Christmas DIYs including the ones below, you will need to learn to solder. Soldering is not really complicated, you just stick a little bit of Lead to the soldering tool and that’s pretty much it but here are some pictures to do it the “text-book” way.
EPE Magazine has a good gallery and te
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Don Stratton at Atomic Fireballs has improved on our Christmas tree with structural designs! Although his tree does not do a POV like ours We gives him two thumbs up for the nice pine tree structure.
About 2 weeks later MAKE Magazine’s RSS feed had a headline about
Here’s a cool little instructable on how to etch solder paste stencils at home. I have been researching for home-made PCBs lately as Garrett’s always talking about it. Anyway, we can refer to this when we make some custom boards.
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Here’s a cool laser tag DIY on the Daisy MP3 Player we are going to hack in the near future… Bre gives us good insights on what kind of modding to think about and also great sources for mod such as the Goodwill and some funky stores..
