Collin’s Lab: Wire Rack Attack! 09/16/2010 Once the growing sprawl of electronic parts starts showing up in your dreams, you know you’ve got some tidying up...
Collin’s Lab: Custom Fit Earbuds 08/25/2010 What do you get when you combine DIY custom molded earplugs with a pair of in-ear headphones? Isolated Hi-Fi that...
Collin’s Lab: Custom fit earbuds 08/25/2010 I’ve used quite a variety of sound-isolating personal audio gear; around-ear cans, in-ear buds, as well as active noise-canceling models....
Circuit Skills: Surface Mount Devices, sponsored by Jameco Electronics 08/23/2010 I’ve tried my hand at quite a few different methods for circuit building — breadboard, perfboard, custom etching, even some...
Why I made such a silly hat 08/12/2010 If you ran across the above image on my Flickr page, you may have thought, “That’s it, Collin finally cracked.”...
How-To: Mod the Monotron mini synth 08/11/2010 2CV from Din Sync demonstrates some of the sweet analog sounds which can be produced with a few simple mods...
Robotic ball rolls via phone control 08/06/2010 Gearbox’s smartphone-controlled ball looks quite cool, offers much potential for creative game ideas – So basically how HTC/Android/Apple make smart...
Audio and guitar effects on Maple 08/06/2010 Okie from LeafLabs got down with some experimental signal processing using Leaf’s speedy Maple board and a custom shield –...
Circuit simulator for iOS 08/04/2010 iCircuit recently appeared on Apple’s App Store, offering a basic schematic editor, plus circuit simulator with multimeter, and oscilloscope views....
Herbie Hancock demos a synth on Sesame Street 07/31/2010 Very much digging this classic clip of Herbie Hancock demonstrating a Fairlight CMI to some of the kids from Sesame...
