Gareth Branwyn

Transmitter/receiver/camera system for rocketry

09/05/2007

BoosterVision is selling a 1-watt transmitter/receiver and CCD camera system for high-power rocketry. Not bad for $280. An included 12db...

Engineering TV

09/05/2007

As the name implies, Engineering TV is a series of webisodic programs dedicated to various technologies, techniques, and research efforts...

HOW TO – Make “Ice Gems”

09/05/2007

Here’s a quick how-to on making beautiful colored globes of ice (which involves little more than freezing colored water in...

Dude sends robot replacement to work

09/05/2007

I’m really surprised that telepresence/telerobotics hasn’t caught on more than it has. IRobot was R&Ding this tech nearly a decade...

Homemade toilet tank sink

09/04/2007

This was one of the other winners of the Instructables/TreeHugger/PopSci Go Green! Contest. It’s a fairly easy to build tank-top...

HOW TO – Prep schematics for PCB fabbing

09/04/2007

This Instructable outlines the process of preparing to get your circuit designs fabbed into professional PCBs. It walks you through,...

Camera rigs and mounts round-up

09/04/2007

DIY Life has a nice round-up of different types of camera rigs and mounts (steadycam, shoulder-brace, car-mount, bike-mount) you can...

Wiimote as “firefighting” robot

09/04/2007

A “firefighting” robot which uses the Wiimote as the controller talking to a desktop Linux machine over Bluetooth. Wiimote controlled...

Rising from the pumpkin patch…

09/03/2007

Summer is over. Let the Halloween hacks begin! This one, sent to us by David Fowler of uC Hobby, uses...

Internal USB/ReadyBoost hack for Ultra-Mobile PC

09/02/2007

“ThoughtFix,” over at UltraMobileGeek, has a piece on how to add an internal USB hub, for adding Flash memory and...

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