At Maker Faire Austin, Evil Mad Scientist Labs was demonstrating some really simple and useful circuits powered by solar cells. Today, they’ve posted the details on their site. Interruption-resistant direct drive: The “direct drive” circuits work well for their design function, but are rather basic. They provide no energy storage, and so are quite vulnerable […]
You may think a Marx Generator is a device for spitting out strident communist rhetoric, but it’s actually a type of high-voltage circuit for spitting out HV pulses. This is probably one to put in the “Don’t Try this at Home” or “Touch = Die” file as we are dealing with current here that can […]
Peter Blasser is President and Designer of the electronic instrument producing entity known as Ciat-Lonbarde. The device plans on their site display a refreshing ability for incorporating chance and forcing experimentation – evidenced by instructions from the Paper Circuits collection (which almost simultaneously do and don’t make sense). […] resistors with an X can be […]
Matrixsynth points out this nice little collection of relatively simple music synthesizer schematics – hmmm, the IR/CV Light Controller looks quite interesting. Building circuits @ home is a great way to learn about electronics. One doesn’t need to know how every component works at first – it’s a lot of fun to learn by ‘doing’. […]
Here’s a how-to on using an inkjet printer to assist in the creation of flexible conductive circuits. The printer is only used to transfer the circuit image onto the conductive fabric. You still have to paint the resist on by hand. Conductive Fabric: Make Flexible Circuits Using An Inkjet Printer. – Link
