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EchoMp3 v1.4

Posted on February 18, 2007 by max

Check out this open source EchoMP3 player kit. It look similar to the Make MP3 Daisy player but also supports MMC, not that MMC is used that much these days…

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DIY HACK – Solar Powered Lawnmower

Posted on February 17, 2007 by max

 

Check out this solar powered lawnmower someone built in Humbolt County. Tight!

An electric lawnmower that utilizes solar power as an energy source will address a number of issues that standard internal combustion engine mowers do not. An electric lawnmower with a solar charger will be easier to use. There is no messy dangerous gasoline to deal with. It will eliminate those pesky trips to the gas station for fill-ups. Just plug

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DIY – IMbot

Posted on February 11, 2007 by max
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Here’s a cool IM-bot, which let’s you know when your friends are online. This one is for Linux but it shouldn’t be too hard to make it yourself using a PIC 16F628A or any other microcontroller.

To make the device, you first need a push puppet. A push puppet is a small articulated character composed of several body parts held together by several strings that run through them under ten

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DIY – Color Organ

Posted on February 10, 2007 by max
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Wow, check this color organ out, it almost looks like candy.

The circuit itself consists of an electret condensor microphone feeding a two stage preamplifier with a sensitivity control. The signal is then split up into three channels with individual level adjustments. Each channel has it’s own filter circuit, so that they each respond to a different range of sound frequencies, one each for treble, midrange, and bass sounds. The signal is then sent to an LED bargraph ladder ci

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Zedomax DIY 127 – Make an Ethernet controlled Color Organ!

Posted on February 9, 2007 by max

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For this weekend, we will show you how to make an ethernet controlled color organ that can be applied for some kind of stage lighting.

We will be using the party light we made and simply plugin the

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Egg Drop Experiments

Posted on February 9, 2007 by max
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This is kinda cool experiment on eggs and dropping them from the roof. I wonder if they’d try some memory foam…

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Homemade $230,000 Boeing 747 Flight Simulator!

Posted on February 7, 2007 by max
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Check out the homemade flight simulator you can test your 747 pilot skills with!

One day Matthew Sheil’s Boeing 747 is dodging houses on the approach into Hong Kong, the next it’s shaking like a baby’s rattle in a storm over the Atlantic. But Sheil does it all at a cruising altitude of about nine feet without ever leaving a Sydney, Australia, warehouse.

An amateur pilot who runs a trucking company, Sheil has spent eight years building a flight sim

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DIY – Make your own modern ceiling light!

Posted on February 7, 2007 by max
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Check out this cool modern style kitchen light you make yourself on a budget!  tighT!

This project started with a very common problem: terrible kitchen lighting. Like most people, my kitchen lighting was awful and consisted of just one dome lamp in the middle of the ceiling. The other possible option is the ugly fluorescent recessed lighting that most kitchens seem to have. With my situation the problem was just not having enough light. If you are in the fluorescent situation, you might have ample light, but with a

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DIY – How To Make Your Own Homebrewed PCBs

Posted on February 6, 2007 by max
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I think this has been around but we’ve been thinking about making some homebrew PCBs, so… This DIY is pretty good since it has lots of cool pictures… nice glove…

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CNC Milling Machine updated with Mach3 Software!

Posted on February 6, 2007 by max
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Check out the update on CNC milling machine with cool software update with Mach3 CNC software. Now Garrett’s CNC milling machine runs much faster with the Mach3!

We’ve been playing around with Mach3, which supports Modbus I/O. This example uses one modbus output on a CUBLOC module t

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