Here’s an Instructable on building a breadboard VU meter around the LM3916 (or LM3915/LM3914) dot/bar display driver chip. We even get treated to the pounded out volume units of that ’80s Siouxsie & the Banshees classic “Peek-a-Boo.” LM3915/LM3916 VU Meter
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 […]
Gmoon wrote a hefty(22-step!) how-to for constructing your own sweet-sounding tube based guitar amp. Even if you’re not planning on specifically building this project, there’s a lot of really helpful details told from the maker’s perspective (even some informative regrets) – No project is without lessons learned. In this case, I wish I had: –Used […]
Instead of waiting around for a faster Arduino to be released, Zach of NYCResistor is developing his own – I’m in the process of porting the Arduino environment to the atmega644 for a skunkworks project I’m working on. This chip is awesome because it has 4x the flash (64k vs 16k) it has 4x the […]
If you’ve ever used the ‘toner transfer’ method for making printed circuit boards, you may be familiar with the sore wrist/arms associated with prolonged pressured ironing. It seems using a lamination machine and magazine paper might alleviate the ironing portion of the process. (of course you could always try using a hotter iron first) Lamination […]
I love all of the beginner electronics kits, components, and building systems that cottage industrialists are developing. Here’s an early prototype page for a component system being devised by Media Lab grad and Eyebeam-er Ayah Bdeir and NY interaction designer Jeff Hoefs. The project is sponsored by SmartDesign. I love the use of magnets to […]
No substitute for a professional oscilloscope by far – but still could be a fun project to have a go at – probably the best advantage is its very small size and the fact that it can run off the power supply of the circuit being tested. Although it has a low frequency range, it […]
