Posted September 14, 2013 by Chris

“Want to make really nice looking front panel for your next DIY project? Then you’re in the right place! First you’re gonna need to have some basic tools and materials: InkJet or Laser printer, Utility knife or X-Acto knife, Pair of scissors, General Usage Labels, Self-Adhesive Laminating Sheet, Imagination!”

Posted September 1, 2013 by Chris

“A collection of the final projects from EGGN 482 at the Colorado School of Mines. Each project has a summary with slides and a video demonstrating how it works. Many great projects in this line-up!”

Posted June 10, 2013 by Chris

“The following is a technique I used while assembling a circuit to be installed where space was very limited. Make sure your circuit design is finalized. Changes will be extremely difficult once the circuit is complete. ”

Posted May 10, 2013 by Chris

“MEng students at Sussex do group projects of their choice. Our group chose to work on a Small-scale Biofuel Production unit, that converts organic household waste to bio-ethanol. The group was formed of four students – two electronic and two mechanical engineers.”

Posted March 10, 2013 by Chris

“This week has just been a torrent of Deathblades work. I’m proud to say that the skate motors are all finished. Well actually, two of them still need their share of custom arc magnets, which I hope to take care of soon through Supermagnetgeorge again. At the least, they can support my weight and I can skate around unpowered.”

Posted February 28, 2013 by Chris

“In this article we will take a look at the original, The Annoy, project, and see what we can do to improve it. Specifically, we’ll make a PCB for the project and find the smallest PIC package available (10F202) for it making it as small as possible. Additionally, we’ll switch over and use microchip’s new XC8 compiler so we don’t have to use assembly for programming.”

Posted February 27, 2013 by Chris

“Experimentation and perseverance help. It’s ok if you goof up a few times; I did. Hang in there and you’ll be a DIY pcb etching guru soon! Find out what works for you, and you’re set. Start with a small, simple circuit and stick to single sided traces! My first circuit was for a 12V/5V dual power supply circuit for another project. It uses only a handful of components.”

Posted February 16, 2013 by Chris

“In the quest to relieve perpetually tense forearms due to bouldering + heavy keyboard usage I came up with this massager using easily obtained components. The total parts list with estimated price: (all items except for skateboard wheels were obtained at Lowe’s).”

Posted January 25, 2013 by Chris

“By request, I am posting details on my Cylon Pumpkin build from two weeks ago…..The Larson Scanner with its AA battery pack is a kit from Evil Mad Scientist…The board in the center, is an Arduino Uno. On top of that is an Adafruit Wave Shield. It’s a kit and yes I didn’t get it right when complete, I had a cold solder pad on the SD card interface. This plays the cylon sounds – this consists of the moving eye sound and then 6 phrases that can be triggered from an IR remote.”

Posted January 23, 2013 by Chris

“A nice thing about the HP laserjets is that they have a little display, and you can use PJL, a sort of controlling language, to change what’s displayed on it, using a bit of code that runs on a PC. Problem was: I didn’t have a PC connected to the laserjet, so I had to divine a standalone solution.”