Soldering Surface Mount LEDs on a Through-Hole PCB 06/25/2013 EMSL customer Peter T. painstakingly soldered surface-mount LEDs (tinier than a grain of rice) onto the through-hole PCB of a...
Lego-and-Wood Cable Car 06/25/2013 This cable car is cool — it uses a Lego Mindstorms NXT brick loaded with RobotC, Lego servos, and a...
Food-Hacking Workshops at OHM2013 06/24/2013 Interested in food hacking? You might want to attend this summer’s OHM2013 hacking camp in the Netherlands. The Food Hacking...
All About the Diode 06/24/2013 Collin Cunningham explains what diodes are all about, describing the history of the component, the various types, and even touches...
K’Nex Tic-Tac-Toe Robot 06/21/2013 Instructable user OddBot built this Arduino-controlled Tic-Tac-Toe robot built out of K’Nex (actually, he used LOZ, a K’Nex ripoff product)...
Can It Be Water-Damaged? NeverWet It! 06/21/2013 This product looks really cool! NeverWet is a two-part coating that can be applied to nearly any surface — cloth,...
Robot-Assisted Xylophone 06/21/2013 The makers of MakeBlock, a very cool and sophisticated extruded aluminum building set, are showing off their stuff with this...
How to Make a Zener Diode Shunt Regulator 06/20/2013 Instructables user Kurt E. Clother shows how to make a shunt regulator out of a Zener diode.
Sparkfun Interviews Beatty Robotics 06/19/2013 Robert, Camille and Genevieve Beatty, a family of robotics enthusiasts, gets the celebrity treatment on the Sparkfun Electronics blog about...
OpenSkan: An Open Source Full Body 3D Scanner 06/19/2013 HeatSync Labs' Moheeb Zara built this full body scanner with a Kinect that raises and lowers on a gantry while...
