Weller, the makers of some of the best soldering irons has a blog, it doesn’t appear to be updated that often, but perhaps they’ll post more now… The posts on the site now are very useful – Link. Video: Soldering in space! More: Soldering on the International Space Station – Link. Three Ways to Save […]
Since January 1st of 2006, Aaron Freedman and his father, David, have been working on the “jumpingboy” project–every day, they take a photo of Aaron jumping and post. The photos are unretouched camera originals (mostly shot with Aaron’s Canon Powershot digital camera).” – Link.
Not really a surprise – RadioShack is closing down in Canada, so if you’re looking for a deal, might be worth a visit… I poked around and it appears that tools and parts are up to 60% off. “RadioShack Corporation will close its nine company-owned stores in Canada by the end of January 2007 as […]
Instructables brings you a cool children’s toy mod! – Link
Alex writes – “Here’s the schematic, it works as a voltage converter to draw just 20mA from a 1.5V cell to light that white LED. The term ‘Joule Thief’ is used because the circuit will work from a cell which would otherwise be considered spent. I found that if the batteries in my Gamecube Wavebird […]
Trammell writes – “I bought one of the Sony eBook readers and wanted a way to read my blogs and other documents offline. So I wrote a tool using a variety of Perl modules to transform RSS feeds into LaTeX and a style sheet to make it formatted for the small screen.” – Link. Related: […]
Westfw writes – “It used to be that the number of different microcontroller chips available to the hobbyist was pretty limited. You got to use whatever you could manage to buy from the mail-order chip dealer, and that narrowed down the choice to a small number of chips. But times have changed. Digikey lists over […]
