Cool project that combines the aesthetics of a wood-paneled den with touchscreen functionality. The green button is a nice touch. This is a 15″ LCD touchscreen with a Celeron 633MHz board with 128MB RAM in a wooden case of my construction. The case also contains the PSU. The bottom part of the screen surround hinges […]
Roger Smith makes Tesla coils and then makes videos explaining his work to share. The thunder in the background audio is particularly great!- Link
Stepper motors and motors with encoders are the muscles of robots. Stepper motors have a magnet in them and a set of electromagnets push and pull them around. Motors with encoders have a disc at the end with lots of little bars and an eyeball that counts how many bars have passed. Watch the video […]
Mark made an LED flashlight from an old garage door remote. Link.
The title of this page is “Simple Robots” but they are the coolest robots ever to be made out of cardboard. it appears that this site has been on the internet for a while, but I’d never seen it and I’m totally inspired. It is hosted at geocities, which means that linking to it may […]
Pasteler0 says, “Simple tutorial explaining how to make a rounded cable from a flat IDE.” Link.
Kevin says, “Here’s directions and demonstration for a wireless mouse modification using a plastic container and an elastic fabric.” Link.
