HomeToys has a pretty intense garage door monitoring project (code included) – “One critical monitoring element for any home automation system is the garage door. There are many ways to do this including using your traditional magnetic contacts which will change state when the garage door is open or closed. This method satisfies the minimal […]
Electronics-project-design.com has a background of what USB is and does as well as a reference project to check out – “The following USB2.0 reference project from Freescale Semiconductor describes in detailed the design of a USB2.0 Card Reader. It support cards such as Compactflash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, Magic Gate, Secure Digital, MultimediaCard and […]
Interesting look back, forward – at robotics and computers from Mechanix Illustrated – 1953 (self-driving cars, robot elephants, prime number crunching computers, automatic factories, automatic sewing machines, self replicating Von Neumann machines) – “Our civilization is being invaded by a horde of mechanical men who are determined to change our way of life. But there’s […]
Here’s how to make a RF-Condenser microphone circuit that’s similar to a Sennheiser MKH series mic, Uwe writes – “This RF-circuit is operating at 7.68 MHz and 48 V phantom power supplied. It is tested with a large diaphragm cardioid capsule from Ralf Falk, who himself is designing a LF tube microphone and with a […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Oskay shows you how to make a super simple motor, he writes – “You have one drywall screw, one 1.5 V alkaline cell, six inches of plain copper wire, one small neodymium disk magnet, and no other tools or supplies. You have 30 seconds to make an electric motor running […]
What a great idea, BookMooch has an easy to enter system for all the books you want to give away (I typed in our MAKE ISBNs), you then receive requests for the books, when you mail the books you get points and then you can ask for books – Link & to help them get […]
Jakob has a handy guide on (re)using the Nokia cell phone LCD screens for projects, he writes – “Many old Nokia cellular phones have graphical LCDs based on the PCD8544 controller. These are perfect for various electronic projects with microcontrollers. The interface is a two-wire serial type (clock and data), and some additional signals. The […]
