You’ve probably got an old floppy drive edge connector or two lying around from an old computer. You can save a bit of money and recycle these as SD/MMC card sockets for your electronics projects. The card can then be used in MMC mode by just wiring up a few I/O pins. Rob Wentworth documented […]
This week, Joe Grand and Bre Pettis bring you another Awesome Electronics Workshop! This time you’ll learn about the open-source microcontroller board, the Arduino, ahem, the ARRR-duino. Make sure to download the PDF to see the schematic! – PDF Link You can get an Arduino board in the Makezine store at or you can find […]
I bought some GE bulbs that are supposed to work in ceiling fans, but they flicker and flash big time. I was able to get them to stop, oddly enough, by activating the dimmer and finding a sweet spot for the settings, but that was a hassle. So I did some trial and error tests […]
2nd year engineering students from UBC (University of British Columbia) building robots to “play” a jumbo version of the electronic board game Operation. 2007 UBC Engineering Physics 253 – Doctor-Bot – Link Related: OPERATION: The costume – Link Make your own Operation board game – Link Making an ‘Operation’ game costume – Link
Here’s how to make a handy 5V breadboard mini power supply – Link.
What happens when you cross an LED Throwie with a Koi fish? You get LED Swimmies, a.k.a. Lightfish. Basically they’re just a Throwie sealed inside of a colored plastic fish. Artist Karl Klar did an installation of 500 of these Swimmies (which don’t actually move) in the pond outside of the new Ars Electronica Center […]
Rockstar released a few of their classic games as a free download, including the original Grand Theft Auto series. The games are distributed as Windows executables, but you can still enjoy a little top-view criminal activity in Linux by running them under WINE. Revive your Inner Carjacker: GTA2 on Linux – Link Rockstar Classics (download […]
