Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
KA7OEI has a great write-up on building a transmit converter for 630 and 2200 meters: As the name implies, a transmit converter takes another frequency - such as that produced by a conventional HF transceiver - and converts it to another frequency. In my case I use an FT-817 -...Tags: transmit converter, transmitter, transverter
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
Edward Mallon writes: Dr. Beddow’s instrumentation class has been building the 2016 version of the Cave Pearl datalogger for more than three years, and feedback from that experience motivated a redesign to accommodate a wider range of student projects while staying within the time constraints of a typical lab-time schedule....Tags: data logger, Pro Mini
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
A detailed instructions of how to build this weather station project by Open Green Energy: This Instructable is a continuation to my earlier weather station project. It was quite popular on the web, people around the globe made their own by following it and given valuable feedbacks for improvement.By taking consideration in...Tags: weather station, Wi-Fi
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Friday, January 18th, 2019
Dave Richards (AA7EE) has written an article detailing his 1mW solar-powered HiFER beacon project, the Boris Beacon: In this post from May of last year, I detailed the construction of a 1mW solar-powered HiFER beacon. I named it the Boris Beacon, in tribute to my neighbor’s cat. The beacon was never mounted...Tags: HiFER Beacon, homebrew radio
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Monday, January 14th, 2019
Dejan over at HowToMechatronics posted a detailed how-to on building DIY Arduino RC transmitter: Now I can wirelessly control any Arduino project with just some small adjustments at the receiver side. This transmitter can be also used as any commercial RC transmitter for controlling RC toys, cars, drones and so...Tags: how-to, RC transmitter
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Monday, January 7th, 2019
Michael Teeuw published a new build: Now that the MusiCubes tray is assembled and the RFID-sensor and LEDs are working as expected, It’s time to add the last feature of the original concept: invisible capacitive touch sensors to control the volume of the music. See the full post on Xonay...Tags: ESP8266, I2C, music, RFID
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
Barton Dring designed and built a Polar Coaster drawing machine to draw custom, round drink coasters: I recently decided to update the Polar Coaster project. The primary reason was to update the controller to use Grbl_ESP32 firmware. I also thought I could make it smaller, lighter and remove a little...Tags: CNC, ESP32
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Monday, December 17th, 2018
Dilshan Jayakody published a new build: This is real-time clock based automatic LED lamp which we originally designed to use as night light. This lamp can programmed to turn on and off at the specific time of the day. For example, it can program to turn on at 6 PM...Tags: ds1307, LED, PIC16F883, rtc
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Friday, December 14th, 2018
A nice write-up on Sheldon's (N6JJA) version of N1BYT’s WBR regenerative receiver: This article is broken into two parts. First comes the “Oscar” preselector/preamplifier. As I said, I intended it to be either part of the overall receiver or used as a standalone where desired. The second part deals with...Tags: amateur radio, homebrew radio
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2018
Vasily Ivanenko has written an article detailing his AF dummy load project: I'll describe a simple 8, or 4 Ω dummy load to test your home brew guitar power amplifiers. Low cost 16 Ω / 25W wire wound, aluminum shell, chassis mount resistors seem abundant. I got mine on eBay. Wire wound...Tags: dummy load
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
Ryan Flowers over at MiscDotGeek posted a how-to on building a direct conversion receiver: In the first installment of this series, we discussed why we’re building a Direct Conversion receiver and talked about some basic ideas. In this installment, we explore what it takes to make the leap from a...Tags: direct conversion, tutorial
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
Scott Hanselman made this DakBoard family calendar with Raspberry Pi Zero W and wrote a post on his blog detailing its assembly: The implementation is simple genius. It's a browser that starts up full screen (kiosk mode) and just sits there and updates occasionally. DakBoard provides the private webpage and...Tags: Raspberry Pi, tutorial
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Monday, December 3rd, 2018
Stephen Wylie blogged about his Turbo Vectrex controller build: The main impetus for this was to have a homebrew controller that actually featured an analog joystick, since there were few if any guides elaborating how to fashion one from an existing controller. I acquired a couple Parallax 2-axis joysticks with...Tags: retro gaming, vectrex, vintage
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
Mark Rehorst blogged about his LM3886 based stereo amplifier build: Several years ago, National Semiconductor came out with some very high performance, easy to use audio power amplifier ICs. I was in need of an extra amplifier so I could biamp some of my home-built electrostatic loudspeakers so I tried...Tags: audio amplifier, LM3886
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Friday, November 23rd, 2018
Aki posted an update on his pocket high voltage generator project we covered previously: The Pocket High Voltage Generator that I made a few weeks ago proved to be a very handy tool. I have been testing Zener diodes very often since I use many Zeners in 12V to 91V...Tags: high voltage generator
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
Sven Krasser blogged about his 6502-based homebrew 8-bit computer build: After completing my VGA Generator project a while back, I’ve embarked on a new electronics project: building a simple 6502-based homebrew 8-bit computer on a breadboard. There are a bunch of similar projects online from which to draw ideas. Some projects...Tags: 6502, homebrew
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Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Pete Juliano, N6QW, has a nice build log on his newest version Heathkit 40M SSB Transceiver: What are you thinking -- I am not trying to break any world record? My XYL asked me that question today -- why are you building another rig? Followed up by a snide comment...Tags: homebrew, transceiver
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
Jesus Echavarria made this battery monitor and wrote a post on his blog detailing its assembly: Here’s one of the design I do last year for a client. He wants to measure the voltage of a car battery and set a couple of alarms when voltage falls below a defined...Tags: battery monitor
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Monday, October 29th, 2018
Stynus has published a new build: For a project I need to program a few microcontrollers in the same circuit. This meant I needed to plug the programmer around on the board a lot. This got annoying very fast. Therefore I decided to make a switch box. In my junk...Tags: ICSP
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Friday, October 26th, 2018
Anthony Lieuallen made this custom power supply and wrote a post on his blog detailing its assembly: You might not truly be an electronics nerd until you build your own power supply. Either way, I've finally passed that threshold. As I've mentioned previously (and previouslier), I've been working on mine...Tags: build log, power supply
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