Tuesday, July 25th, 2017
Matthew Reed writes: ProtoModule is a HydroBot module designed to easily develop and test new monitoring or control functions that may someday go into a HydroBot module. It has 11 GPIO pins and the power rails broken out on a 0.1” pin header for easy breadboarding or interfacing with ribbon...Tags: hydroponics
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2017
David Sanz Kirbis built his own reflow device with an halogen floodlight, that is available on Github: First test was to check the speed of the temperature rise inside a standard halogen floodlight. Reflow soldering temperature curves are quite demanding, and some adapted ovens can't reach the degrees-per-second speed of the...Friday, June 30th, 2017
Speaker power controller made with a RADAR module from Scott Harden: I just finished building a device that uses RADAR to toggle power to my speakers when it detects my hand waiving near them! I have some crummy old monitor speakers screwed to a shelf, and although their sound is decent...Tags: device, radar
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
Kenneth Finnegan built this YouTube channel IoT view counter, inspired by Becky Stern’s IoT counter: I've wanted an Internet connected read-out for some time now, inspired by the awesome shadow box IoT projects Becky Stern has been doing (weather, YouTube subscribers). I'm certainly not to the same level of packaging as...Tags: IoT, view counter
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
Kerry Wong published a new build: I had wanted to make a spot welder for a while. Most of the DIY spot welders use a momentary switch the primary side of the microwave oven transformer (MOT). Due to the simplicity of this design, it is very simple to make. This...Tags: 555, spot welder, TRIAC
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2017
An update on Edward Mallon’s Arduino data logger project we covered previously: If you need a logger with a cheap durable housing, it’s still hard to beat the Dupont-jumper build released in 2016. But sometimes I need more of a bare-bones unit for bookshelf test runs while I shake down...Tags: data logger
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
Mare published a new build: Low noise amplifiers are very useful. I built one with single BFG425W transistor with adjustable bias current. Project info at Mare & Gal Electronics homepage.Tags: amplifier, Ham, HF
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Thursday, May 25th, 2017
A DIY NAS project from Peter Scargill: So I’ve had a fair experience of these systems. Well, this blog entry isn’t about expensive NAS systems. It’s about a cheap one… really cheap that is – and DIY. How cheap? Well, about £12 depending on what you have handy. For this price...Tags: DIY, NAS
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
Steve Smith has published a new build: It’s taken some research but I have built a prototype with my trusty ARDX Arduino Uno kit Currently, the device changes mode with a press of the mode button which will later be incorporated in a suitable rotary encoder. I modified the prototype’s...Tags: Atmega328, cable release
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Friday, May 12th, 2017
Gelstronic shared detailed instructions of how to build this 3D POV display, project instructables here: In my project i use a spinning helix of LED strips. There are a total of 144 LEDs that can displays 17280 voxels with 16 colors. The voxels are arranged circularly in 12 levels. The...Tags: instructables, LED, POV display
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
Nicu Florica @ Arduinotehniq writes: Schematic was inspired by article from Tehnium anual magazine 1990, but my schematic have extra ligts "games" A few time ago (3-4 years) I need a simple schematic for automatic dynamic games without microcontrollers, so I remenber my schematic... but I simplify my schematic as...Tags: dynamic lights, tehnium
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
https://youtu.be/V-PAW3KoB_A Yu Jiang Tham designed and built his own bartender robot named Bar Mixvah, that is available on Github: I built a robot that mixes drinks named Bar Mixvah. It utilizes an Arduino microcontroller switching a series of pumps via transistors on the physical layer, and the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js,...Tags: 3D, how-to, Raspberry Pi, Raspian
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Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Jesus Echavarria shared detailed instructions of how to make a simple tweezers for checking led polarity: I usually assemble by hand all the boards I make. I use SMD components, especially in 0805 format for resistors, capacitors and leds. With the last ones, I always have the same problem: I need...Tags: how-to, LED, tweezers
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Thursday, May 4th, 2017
MicroTS, a smallest synth in the world from DIY synthesizer: The micro-TS is a key fob sized DIY synthesizer (61x41mm) with actually useable knobs like an analog synthesizer. The ball pen is for size reference. It has a one octave touch keyboard, 6 knobs and a stereo headphone output. Running on...Tags: synthesizer
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
Scott Harden has a nice build log on his precision pressure meter project: I just completed building a device capable of measuring temperature to one hundredth of a degree Celsius and pressure to one ten-thousandth of a PSI! This project is centered around an ICstation MS5611 temperature sensor breakout board...Tags: Atmega328, pressure meter
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Thursday, April 27th, 2017
Lukas Fässler from Soldernerd published a project writeup showing how he built a PIC-based beacon keyer: This is likely the first ham radio related project that I document here on this blog But my very first PIC project was a beacon keyer that I made for my father, HB9BBD. That...Tags: beacon, ham radio, PIC16F18325
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2017
Saulius Lukse has posted his DIY 360 panoramas: It might seem simple task but it involves some tricks to control motors and read sensor data from two separate controllers. One of the challenges I faced is meshing position and temperature data. Feedback received from each controllers is timestamped. After scan is...Tags: Digital DIY
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Friday, April 14th, 2017
Lukas Fässler from Soldernerd has been working on revised version of his MPPT Solar charger project: Over the last few weeks I have been quite busy with my MPPT Solar Charger project. I’ve built up a first board and started writing firmware for it. Since the last version was not...Tags: MPPT solar charger
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Monday, April 3rd, 2017
g4fre built his own PIHPSDR, that is available at github: Having seen the Apache-labs version of the PIHPSDR I wanted to customise it to fill my needs, so I needed to build my own All the needed information , with the software, is at John Melton's github site github.com/g0orx/pihpsdr The...Tags: homebrew, PIHPSDR, RaspberryPi
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Saturday, March 18th, 2017
David Cook built a 5V regulator to sit atop a 9V battery: For quick portable projects and temporary hacks, it is often faster to reuse a simple 5V regulator circuit than to integrate a power supply into the device design. My toolbox has an LED tester and magnifier light, so...Tags: 5V regulator, battery
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