Here’s the world’s first Laser-cut records made from wood by Amanda Ghassaei: You can now turn your favourite music downloads into playable records made from materials you have lying around the house. Amanda Ghassaei, 24, from San Francisco has created … Read more
2blmaster shares his experience cutting a stencil with gerber2graphtec using the Silhouette Cameo: I just received my Silhouette Cameo after I got excited reading *this* thread :) I use it together with the great gerber2graphtec tool In principle it works … Read more
Alessandro Grossi developed this DIY 3d scanner. The primary ingredients in this project are readily available and include a line laser, an Arduino, stepper motor, stepper motor driver (up to 12800 steps), 12V power supply, IR LED and a digital … Read more
Ryan Longo and Michu worked together to make this cool DIY Daft Punk helmet with Raspberry Pi - software by Michu, the idea and hardware by Ryan Longo: So I wrote a Netty based Java application using Pi4J which does exactly … Read more
This video by Rich Olson demonstrates his method for creating 2-layer PCBs using his laser cutter and chemical etching. Via Hacked Gadgets.
Peter used a Shapeoko to cut a solder stencil for a Sick of Beige Bus Pirate v4: I purchased two Sick of Beige Bus Pirate v4 from schazamp on the DangerousPrototypes forums a couple of months ago and have been … Read more
In this presentation from the recent Notacon 10 conference in Cleveland, OH, Karin Halsey (aka meecie) provides a thought provoking roundup of the tech basics behind medical sensors and related devices. The talk focuses on working with basic supplies and … Read more
Build your own wireless transceiver: Have you ever wanted to send data from a sensor or project wirelessly? This simple circuit allows you to build your own wireless transceiver using two ICs, a transistor, and two resistors. The IC is … Read more
Christopher Hawkins made this cool DIY 3d printed stepper motor: This is a programmable stepper motor and driver that I made out of some nails, magnet wire, neodymium magnets, a digispark microcontroller, and a 3D printed piece that I designed … Read more
Here’s an AquaPinguino project by Susanne from Germany: She has built a system with automatic monitoring and control of every major water and lighting factors for her seawater aquarium. She made a double side board controlled by a Pinguino32 Micro … Read more
Viktor added cool light effect to a translucent XBOX360 wireless controller: I didn’t want to use an arrangement where the lights would be on for an extended period of time, because that would lead to very short battery life in the controller. … Read more
Mats posted his homemade wristwatch – DaTajm in the project log forum: DaTajm is a wristwatch based on a PIC16F1824 powered by a single CR1216 lithium coin cell. I’m using a sandwich of three PCBs. The topmost pcb (0.8mm thick) … Read more
Here’s an interesting project by Steve of Tangent Audio the AZIZ project, a microcontroller-based LED microscope illuminator: AZIZ is an LED microscope illuminator that I designed and built from scratch. It is designed around a Texas Instruments TLC59116 constant-current PWM LED … Read more
Davide Gironi documented his DIY AVR Atmega dehumidifier controller board build: Suddently my dehumidifier stop working, the original humidity switch get broken, it was a mechanical hygrometer, based on a thin transparent strip that react to humidity and engage the … Read more
Scott Harden has designed an ECG/pulse oximeter combo project using LM324 op-amps. Scott describes, “This new project is fully documented and uses extremely common and cheap parts, all of which could be purchased at RadioShack. It serves as both an … Read more
Mike writes informing us of his DIY IR Toy: Finally got around to taking some pics of a DIY IRToy I finished last week. All the parts are 0805, since I don’t have an 0603 kit (yet). I have it … Read more
Here’s a 3D printed vacuum former by Jonny, documentation is available as a thing on Thingiverse: This is a vacuum forming machine that you can print. Which allows you to make a mold of your 3d printed object. I hope … Read more
Oakkar7 shares his experience repairing his hot-air station: I quickly checked the problem. There is no air flow at the nozzle. But I still heard the air compressor sound. Today, I tear down and find out the problem. My rework … Read more
Matthew of Electronics for Humans has been working on 3D printer controller: The design is based on an Atmel Atmega328 running at 8MHz (using the internal clock) at 3.3V. This is in order to keep the same voltage as the … Read more
Here’s an interesting project the Chipper – ATtiny Programming and Prototyping Shield built by Ben Rothschild: As a high school senior and electronic enthusiast, I recently built a programming shield for 10 different types of ATtiny chips that can be … Read more
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