Building a lab power supply from old computer power bricks: Over the years, I have accumulated many used computer power bricks. Although I could just use them by themselves to power other electronics with similar voltage and current requirements, I thought I would combine a few of them together as the input to a linear […]
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(Not a) triple tube geiger counter
Doz’ triple tube geiger counter project, that is available on GitHub: So, two little switching power supplies, one for the DOB-50 and CTC-5 as they have similar operating voltages, and one higher voltage one for the DOB-80, a simple op-amp comparator to output the pulses to an Arduino to process and display the results. The […]
Building a 12V DC MagSafe charger
Steve blogged about his 12V DC MagSafe charger built: Now that I have a solar-powered 12V battery, how can I charge my laptop from it? An inverter would seem absurdly inefficient, converting from 12V DC to 110V AC just so I can connect my Apple charger and convert back to DC. It would work, but […]
Low cost open source ventilator
Johnny Chung Lee writes, “In the event that COVID-19 hospitalizations exhaust the availability of FDA approved ventilators. I started documenting a a process of converting a low-cost CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) blower into a rudimentary Ventilator that could help with breathing during an acute respiratory attack. If interested, follow along the Github Project“ More […]
Building an extremely high powered 1-12V lab power supply on the cheap
Matthew Millman has published a new build: For a number of years now I’ve had a couple of high powered switching power supply units made by Power-One. They’re typically found in I.T. equipment and provide a single output rail of either 12 V or 48 V with a very high current rating. The other cool […]
Arduboy with removable flash cart
A homebrew Arduboy with removale flash cart from Facelesstech: I’ll start with the Arduboy its self. I wanted to make a small Arduboy that anyone with basic soldering skills could make. I don’t think its the easies of boards to solder but its the only way I could make it small enough and have all […]
tinyOSD & tinyFINITY – a tiny opensource video tx with full graphic OSD
tinyOSD and the tinyFINITY, a tiny open source video transmitter with integrated graphic OSD from fishpepper.de As I like fully integrated solutions I started to work on a new PCB design that includes a RTC6705 video transmitter and my tinyOSD into one tiny 16x16mm board called tinyFINITY. The image shows a preliminary version where I tested […]
D01: 2*15W guitar amplifier built using salvaged parts
Davide Gironi writes, “The D01, litterally Discarica 01, is a guitar solid state amplifier build from salvaged parts.” See the full post on his blog. Check out the video after the break.
Open Trickler: The DIY smart powder trickler
Eric Higgins has a nice build log on his Open Trickler project a bluetooth-enabled smart powder trickler from off-the-shelf parts for under $60: Fundamentally, this is not a hard problem to solve. Read the value from the scale, run a motor that moves powder into the scale, turn off the motor when the scale reads […]
Wifi based DIY 5V switcher for led-lights
Albert posted a detailed how-to on building DIY ESP-12F based USB-5V switcher: 5V powered 100LED circuit was consuming around ~1.8Watts(though 5.1Ohm series resistor was really hot) and the brightness of the LED’s were not bad, especially difference between first led and last led brightness didnt bother me it was hardly noticeable when seen from distance. So […]
Outdoor UV index sensor
A detailed instructions of how to build this outdoor UV index and ambient light sensor from Mare & Gal Electronics: The VEML6075 senses UVA and UVB light and incorporates photodiode, amplifiers, and analog / digital circuits into a single chip using a CMOS process. When the UV sensor is applied, it is able to detect UVA and UVB intensity […]
Homebrew SDR HF transceiver
Simonhk (G0FCU) wrote a series of posts on building homebrew SDR HF transceiver: However, what you might notice is the presence of image products in the waterfall. The processing of the signal suppresses all but the very strongest of these so they don’t appear as audio but it is mighty confusing when they are on the […]
Wyostat: Open source Thermostat Pt. 1
Kevin has been working on building his own thermostat, that is available on github: Does the world need another connected thermostat? When my thermostat went on the blink last winter, I looked at Nest, and Ecobee, and the other me-too thermostats, and I decided I would rather build my own. More details at baldwisdom.com.
Rombus pinball – a LattePanda mini pinball machine
Matt Brailsford (aka Circuitbeard) has a nice write-up about building his mini pinball machine with a lattepanda core running dual monitors: I generally start my projects by thinking about the hardware that I’m going to want to use as I’ll need to know sizes when it comes to the design phase. My first thought was to […]
Making YBCO superconductor
This video describes how to make and test your own YBCO superconductor by Ben Krasnow. More info on his blog here.
Retropie plug in USB speaker
A detailed instructions of how to make this DIY retropie plug in usb speaker from Facelesstech: The 2 down sides to my ZeroBoy build I did recently were that it didn’t have a build in battery power and that it didn’t have sound. I seen that the MintyPi was using a USB sound card to […]
Custom 3D printed magnetic encoder disks for robotics projects
A how-to on making a custom DIY magnetic disk encoder by Erich Styger: I’m making great progress with the firmware for the new Mini Sumo Robot (see “New Concept for 2018 Mini Sumo Roboter“). The goal is a versatile and low-cost Mini Sumo robot, and the robot comes with the feature of magnetic position encoders. […]
Arduino controlled Dual Mono AK4490 DAC (part 2)
An update on Arduino controlled Dual Mono AK4490 DAC project we covered previously: After I was certain that everything related to the software was working the way it should, I designed a “motherboard” that would take care of the following: Accept the STM32F106 board Accept the 3.5″ TFT Accommodate an 24LC256 EEPROM chip, used to […]
Bus timer project
Limpkin published a new build: For once, this project was not for me… it was for my wife ! Every morning she takes the bus then train to go to work. If she misses her train, she has to wait for more than 30 minutes for the next one. Not missing her bus is therefore […]
Microcontroller action potential generator
Scott Harden writes: Here I demonstrate how to use a single microcontroller pin to generate action-potential-like waveforms. The output is similar my fully analog action potential generator circuit, but the waveform here is created in an entirely different way. A microcontroller is at the core of this project and determines when to fire action potentials. […]