Posted August 8, 2008 by Chris

This camera mod had to happen at sometime or another. Take cheap one-time use store bought digital cameras and mod them so you don’t ever have to return them! This type of digital camera is improving in quality as digital parts continue to fall in price. So take a look if you want a digital camera but don’t want to pay $100’s.

Posted August 7, 2008 by Chris

LEDs will never cease to amuse human beings. Recently, super-bright LEDs have become far more available to the general public and we’re making great use of them..not really though. This project write-up details out how to create what I would call a cop blinding flash light as it is super bright. There’s also a few extra led light show creations you can see.

Posted August 6, 2008 by Chris

This project write-up offers the fundamental details about the old school nokia cell phones. The main focus of the write-up is modifying the LCD so that we can write whatever we want onto it. Hardware schematics & software are there for you to download.

Posted August 5, 2008 by Chris

The mini digital volt meter is a neat little project that uses a standard microcontroller for all I/O. The project write-up goes through the build process of the project & shows you how the software algorithm is setup. Hardware schematics & high level software algorithms are explained in detail, take a look.

Posted August 4, 2008 by Chris

Van De Graff generators go back a long, long way and are a loved experiment in the field of electrical physics. They show the very basics of negative vs. positive in electronics. The project write-up explains the process of building a very simple Van De Graff generator that plugs into a standard wall outlet.

Posted August 3, 2008 by Chris

Here is a simple LCD display that is controlled via web browser through an Ethernet interface. An ATMega microcontroller does all the dirty inbetween work. The project write-up gives a good medium-high level description of the project details & the software source code is available for download.

Posted August 2, 2008 by Chris

With perhaps a more noble cause in mind, other than just for fun, here is the electronic stethoscope. The build isn’t as complex as it might seem and the project write-up offers a deatiled guide for reproducing this device. There’s also much background information all for you.

Posted August 1, 2008 by Chris

This clothing mod just has dangerous written all over it, but then again it doesn’t snow here so perhaps it is the life saver it seems to be. Using a 9v battery & some standard wire inserted throughout a jacket and you have an electrically heated jacket. Pretty simple, check out the project write-up for more info.

Posted July 31, 2008 by Chris

The classic NES video game system is one console that never seems to go away. Mods have been made for it over and over…so with no delay, here’s another one. This time the NES has been mod’d to double as a PS2, so yes it plays DVDs! The original site is in french, so here’s a link to the next best write-up for it.

Posted July 30, 2008 by Chris

BattMan II is a computer controlled battery manager, intended for typical rechargeable batteries used by R/C and electronics hobbyists, as well as various consumer product batteries. The project-write up is extremely detailed with hardware schematics & source code ready for download.