When our house was built, I put a server room next to my office. Unfortunately, it had only a small bathroom-style fan with a 4″ duct leading outside, and during the summer I had to leave the door open, which made my office hot and loud. So I installed a larger fan, along with an […]
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The brilliant Meara O’Reilly describes how to wind your own electromagnetic guitar pickups on sewing machine bobbins.
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RC hobby servomotors were just made for hacking. What’s not obvious is how much you can hack them — with a few tricks, you can use a servo to control almost anything. Hobby servos consist of a DC gear motor, a potentiometer (usually 5K), and a control circuit. The output shaft is the output of […]
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