Day: April 9, 2006

Circuit board art

Circuit board art

Francisco writes – “I’ve been cutting two different kinds of shapes, really kitschy holiday shapes and somewhat kitschy geometric shapes…All of these shapes are made from either dead or seriously obsolete circuit boards, pulled from various items – motherboards, hard drive/floppy/cd drive controllers, ethernet/sound/video cards, etc. Not all boards are equal – some are thinner, […]

DIY Magnetic card reader

DIY Magnetic card reader

Cheap DIY credit card reader project – “The reader mechanism shown was purchased from All Electronics for $1.50. The unit provides the magnetic head on a spring mechanism along with low level head signal amplifiers and data slicers. Three signal lines comming from the unit provide card presence, clock, and data. “ [via] – Link. […]