DoveP writes – “This instructable will show you how to make your own solar battery charger from very simple components. It is taken from my documentation provided with a kit I supply – you should easily be able to source the same components yourself of course.” – Link. Related: The Solar Powered Coffee Roaster – […]
The Real Elliot writes – “Got some scavenged stepper motors from printers/disk drives/etc lying around? Some probing with an ohmeter, followed by some simple driver code on your microprocessor and you’ll be stepping in style.” – Link. Related: GPL AVR USB – Link. Getting started with AVR microprocessors on the cheap – Link. HOW TO […]
Jeroen made a 1-wire temperature sensing system, he writes – “When the central computer/network equipment hall of Tilburg University got new climate control equipment, the Unix system managers were anxious to get relevant information (mostly temperature readings) fed directly into their Nagios monitoring system. Several solutions were available, but none of them really looked good. […]
I love neelandan’s electronics they’re gritty – “This is a charger for lithium ion batteries which takes its power from the USB port of a computer. It uses the MCP73861 or MCP73863 Li-ion battery charger chip manufactured by Microchip.” – Link. Related: HOW TO – Vehicular 5V power – Link. Minty Boost kit – Link.
My pal Nate True’s latest project is a lucid dreaming inducing machine! When I first started reading about lucid dreaming, I found that some companies had created expensive pieces of technology aimed at increasing your likelihood of having a lucid dream when you wear it to sleep. I wanted one, but at the price of […]
J A Ollinger sent in one of my favorites projects from Sci-Toys in, building a crystal radio out of household items – “Step-by-step instructions on how to build simple radios using common household goods. This is part of a larger section on building simple radios, but this page was particularly interesting (like how to make […]
A MAKE reader writes – “After playing with various WiFi setups for a community network for the past three years, I discovered Meraki which is testing an easy to use setup for a mesh network (based on mit roofnet). The hardware was not designed for outdoor use so I used sch 40 pipe to make […]
