MonoBox is a small, inexpensive powered speaker that amplifies the output of your headphone music player. It’s little but it’s loud! All the circuit parts are available from RadioShack. The...
Posted by Ross Hershberger
Categories: Electronics, Music | 69 Comments
The desk receives event notifications over the network and alters its color and pattern to provide those notifications to the user. The combination of color and location can be used...
Posted by Michael LaGrasta
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Furniture | 1 Comment
Add bright lighting to your space with powerful LEDs housed in PVC.
Posted by Charles Platt
Categories: Furniture, Electronics | 5 Comments
Plug your guitar into light-programmable waveforms with this unique effects box.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan
Categories: Art & Design, Music | 18 Comments
A data logger is a device that is left to run for long periods of time, making regular measurements of external sensors. We’ll be using the Arduino microcontroller and a...
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Arduino | No Comments
In this project, we’ll take a very simple idea — the length of time it takes a capacitor to charge — and make something rather amazing with it: a 3D...
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Arduino, Electronics | 72 Comments
The Kinect is a peripheral for the Xbox 360 console that allows a user to interact with the Xbox 360 without touching a controller. A general description of the Kinect...
Posted by Damon Conover
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
These directions were adapted from alan-parekh.com. The IR Jammer project is microcontroller-based; what this means is there is a small self-contained computer that controls the unit. The IR Jammer will...
Posted by Alan Parekh
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Fun & Games | 2 Comments
This is our instructions for the Learn to Solder skill badge sponsored by RadioShack at Maker Faire Bay Area 2012.
Posted by Mark de Vinck
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
One of my friends is a fan of the Green Lantern, and he thought it would be cool to have a glowing ring that charges when put inside a lamp....
Posted by jduffy105
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | No Comments
This is an easy-to-build simple solar engine, also known as a Trimmet. We will construct a direct-drive type (as opposed to a voltage-triggered) spinner that will really go nowhere fast...
Posted by Marc Barbani
Categories: Electronics, Robotics | No Comments
Connect a shirt pocket “amplified listener” hearing aid with an in-car FM transmitter, and you’ve got a wireless bug. Tuck them inside a hollowed-out book with the mic concealed by...
Posted by David Simpson
Categories: Fun & Games | No Comments
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