Year: 2008

How to: SMT Desoldering Station

How to: SMT Desoldering Station

SMT desoldering stations can be very expensive. So what are you suppose to do? Make your own, and that is exactly what Alfredo did with surprisingly good results. For those of you that are wondering, YES, that is a soda bottle in there! Now that’s recycling! Working with SMTs (surface mount technology components) is quite […]

DIY Simple oil lamp

DIY Simple oil lamp

This is a really simple oil lamp made from a metal spacer and some rolled up toilet paper. This would be a great emergency light while camping. This is a simple but very sweet project. I was playing about with oil and wicks on new years eve 2006 and came up with this idea for […]

Nifty Corners: roundtangles made simple

Since the border-radius CSS parameter has been too slow in coming and rounded corners don’t seem to be going out of style any time soon, everyone web developer I know has their own personal brand of CSS background-image and DIV gymnastics for creating smooth-cornered roundtangles. Besides the extra load time that’s required to download all […]