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Shouldn’t people make their own ringtones, not buy them?
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Made On Earth — The Eye Aquatic
Cousteau and the undersea world. Cameron and Titanic. And now, Joe Reinhardt and Mike Fields and the depths of Lake Moraine in upstate New York.
Open source Atmel AVR microcontroller kits…
Wow, check out these Atmel AVR Microcontroller kits for Linux – USB and parallel port versions, the best (I think) is they come with bootable CDs Link. Related: AVR projects – Link.
Hacking LED Christmas lights for low voltage use
John writes – “I saw this and just had to share. You know those very neat LED Christmas lights that you could find on the clearance tables a few months ago, you remember them now because your going to kick yourself for not buying a crap load of them. Anyway, Joe has a tutorial on […]
Homebrew through plating machine
M writes – “I got sick of waiting for my PCB’s to be made externaly and therefore wanted to be able to produce PCB’s for my prototypting needs by myself. Now, it is not too difficult to create even double sided PCB’s at home. However, having the vias conect the two layers by hand is […]
HOW TO – Make a garage monitor
Joe writes – “Need to know if the garage door is open? Need to know if you pulled in far enough for the door to close without hitting your bike? Need to know all this with web access… I present the garage monitor 3000. When the car reaches the right spot, the LED turns from […]
HOW TO – Drive a lot of LEDs from a few microcontroller pins
Westfw writes – “Using the fact that many microcontroller pins have three states (+V, GND, or “high impedence”, you can drive N*(N-1) LEDs from N pins. So the little 8 pin microcontroller like a PIC12Fxxx or an ATtiny11 can drive 20 LEDs on its five available output pins, and still have one pin left for […]