Vassilis writes “A Tutorial Board for the PIC16F84A Microcontroller. This is a new design of a tutorial board based on the popular PIC16F84A microcontroller. It features eight single leds, a 7-segment display, an LCD display and five push buttons. It is an ideal solution for the beginner to take his/her first programming steps in the […]
Will has a good starter on making your own CNC machine – “Ready for some hard core gadget creation? If you thought your dremel tool was handy before, in today’s How-To we’ll start building our own CNC machine. Aside from the geek factor, it can be handy for making things like PC boards without chemicals […]
Here’s our next TV-B-Gone mod, bam! “This TV-B-Gone uses a 9V battery to send its signal through a matrix of 20 IR LEDS. This extends the working range of the device to about 90ft (line of sight). Using this in a regular sized room you are pretty much guaranteed to kill the TV no matter […]
A Maker in the forums was looking to make a LED display that can read RSS feeds, here’s a start – Atharsia writes – “Check out [this site] for a circuit that can be used to drive a matrix of LED’s that can be driven to display alphanumeric characters. You should be able to just […]
There’s a Starbucks in Washington that has a bicycle powered blender and the customers make their own drinks or something (I couldn’t find any information on why they’re doing this or which one in WA, but there was a video on Keith Obermann last night). So, here are some resources around the web on bike […]
Here’s a simple and easy clamp camera mount you can make – Link.
Jared writes – I started this project with more of an idea of creating a system that would visualize Cherenkov radiation via webcam utilizing a Gamma radiation source and heavy water in some heavy lead shielding to produce the tell tale bursts of blue light. Perhaps hook it up to the LCD window kit system […]
