I love just about every project that’s built around the Altoids tins. This one is no exception: mini speakers made of recycled headphones. You could also use those cheap mini-speakers that they sell at your local electronic parts store. Altoids Tin Mini Speakers [link]
28 Feb
A nice little “Getting Started” guide on building electronic circuits. Circuit Building 101 [link]
27 Feb
Turn a Nintendo NES controller into a retro USB flash drive that’s also a cultural icon. Now, why didn’t I think of this? NES Controller USB Flash Drive [link]
26 Feb
While a capacitor the size of a 2L bottle doesn’t have any practical applications, it’ll help you understand the underlying theory behind the tiny capacitors that you can actually use. Build your own Capacitor [link][via]
25 Feb
Great hack for Canon Nikon D200 owners: make a relatively cheap GPS that will transmit coordinates to the camera. Take a picture, and it gets stamped with the GPS coordinates. Not too shabby. I guess this would be great for traveling bloggers, photojournalists, or even artistic projects. Canon Nikon D200 hotshoe GPS [link][via] 2009-01-06: Correction. [...]
23 Feb
I love this: it’s cheap, effective and pretty simple to do. Basically, you take a 2$ Radio Shack piezoelectric transducer and use it as pickup. One thing bothers me a bit though: you need to drill a hole in the guitar to fit the jack. I’m quite sure there’s a way to go around this. [...]
18 Feb
The Street Grip is a useful camcorder accessory for use in action shots – think skateboard videos. It serves two purposes: a handle to grab your camera and an armor to protect it. DIY Camcorder Street Grip [link][via]
15 Feb
A step-by-step guide that shows you how to put together a basic, battery-operated audio amplifier. Make a Simple Audio Amplifier [link]
07 Feb
This sweet hack turns a cheap portable DVD player into a portable NTSC monitor. I can think of a few interesting applications: car night-vision and parking/back-up cameras, portable consoles, monitor for DIY film making, monitor for a hidden or remote (think on a kite) camera, etc. Nice, cheap and totally versatile. Turn a 20$ DVD [...]
02 Feb
You’ve designed a nice PCB layout and want to order a bunch made? Before submitting the order, be sure to check if your component fit physically using this simple method. Doing an easy PCB pre-order check [link][via]
by Robert
"The distance is very far. I would have no doubt that you could control it from 100ft -200ft or more. ..."by Storage
"This is my kind of gadget. Whats the range on one of these? It would be ideal to stand at ..."by Manualidades
"Wow! great craft, but very dificult for me... hehehe thats man is incredible "by Ray
"Hi, thank you for this very exiting blog!!! Kind regards from Germany "
04 Mar