Hands-free tunes
Troy writes – “Assemble a switch box to switch from listening to music on head phones to listening to answering your phone with your left ear, while music continues in the right.” Link.
Month: March 2006
DIY Clear USB drive
Russ writes – “Clear USB Drive that I made after my case broke. It was cast in clear hobby resin.” – Link.
Homebrew spectrum analyzer project
Evan writes – “Make a spectrum analyzer out of a TV tuner. As NTSC TV goes away and MFRs drop their old tuner cabs it is possible to build cheap projects like this around them. These tuners are frequently I2C controled making them ideal for small PIC controled projects.” – Link.
Autotelematic spider bots (photos)
John writes – “Images of the opening of Ken Rinaldo & Matt Howard’s Autotelematic Spider Bots show at Sunderland Museum & Winter Garden on Tuesday 7th March, 2006. The structure of the bots is amazing and equally impressive is the $50,000 of donated rapid-manufactured parts that it took to make them. The Autotelematic Spider Bots […]
DIY Service monitoring panel
Steve from Radio Free Peterborough writes – “A home-made Perl-powered “anything” monitoring panel – I did a talk on this for January’s Toronto Perl Mongers, and it was suggested that this might be up make’s alley – so to speak. Driver is GPL. – Link. Related: Sneak preview of version 2 with 5 x input […]
Non-Invasive washing machine cycle detector project
Ian writes – “This month, I will be attempting to create a method of detecting a washing machine’s status using a microphone and signal processing on a computer. This project is part of an independent study that I hope will eventually yield a website that would allow students to be notified of the status of […]
DIY Solar-powered lights
Chris writes – “After completing my first indoor solar-powered lighting system, I thought I’d have a go at building a second system using an alternative approach: ‘hacked up’ solar-powered garden lights (similar to those used to light my solar-heated outdoor bath project). I wanted to see if I could build a useable indoor lighting system […]
