Every week Spark Fun gets in really interesting electronics for projects and more – this week, the GPS controller for the 21 foot wall clock they had at Maker Faire came in… arg, credit card coming out… 100mAh LiPo (Lithium Polymer) battery. This little guy packs a punch over a short amount of time. Packed […]
John writes – “Now this is the sort of project I can sink my teeth into. What do you get when you cross a disposable camera flash with a bit of wire, and steel BB’s? A coil gun! Yeah… That’s the good stuff. Jeff provides plans and links to build your own weapon of choice. […]
Looking for super cheap LEDs for your next light up project? ABCtronics has most common colors for pennies a piece. If you have other favorite places to get LEDs, post’em up in the comments – Link. Related: Tons of LED projects – Link.
Bill sent in this DIY trumpet muting device made from an air freshener, he writes – “I recently found out that Yamaha makes a “silent brass system” with a mute that nearly silences your brass instrument, and a microphone/amp/headphone circuit so you can hear yourself play. Wow, I thought, until I saw what people were […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member 3D King posted up a dozen homemade electronics projects, like the David Forbes Scope clock (As seen in the Makers book) – Link. Related: Maker of the day – David Forbes, Nixie-display clocks and wristwatch – Link. Nixie tube projects – Link. Flickr has a new & improved interface, join […]
Dan writes – “Shock-Proof your Garmin GPS to prevent unintended power-downs. I look at a couple different ways to make the fix, and actually do one of them. This project requires soldering a couple of fairly tricky connections inside the otherwise working GPS, so use caution.” – Link.
Ryan writes “Here’s a microcontroller hijack for a commodity el-cheapo alarm clock that adds IR remote functionality, making it easy to set the alarm time, from far away, and with fewer keystrokes.” – Link.
