On uC Hobby, they took apart an old desk phone, scavenged it for parts, and wrote up what they found: The easiest way I have found with modern technology to identify parts is to type all of the markings on the part into a Google search, and refine your search from there. If you then […]
Ifixit got ahold of a new MacBook Pro 13″ and are posting the teardown as they take it apart and explore what’s inside. MacBook Pro 13″ Unibody Teardown
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, […]
Where do you get that special something for that special project if you aren’t quite sure what it is or where to get it? Why the MIT Flea Market, of course! The MIT Radio Society, in conjunction with the MIT UHF Repeater Association, the MIT Electronics Research Society, and the Harvard Wireless Club, sponsors a […]
Subscriber John Schuch writes: Threads on the MAKE forums often touch on hall effect sensors for measuring current, position, speed, etc. I just got this link in an email this morning and think it’s pretty cool. Gotta love free technical training. This is a sponsored tutorial on Digikey, sponsored by Honeywell, and promoting Honeywell’s line […]
Jeff, he of the mightyOhm, asks: Have you ever wondered why standard 5% resistors have strange values, like 330 and 470 Ohms, instead of nice round numbers like 300 or 500 Ohms? It turns out that standard resistor values form a preferred number series defined by the EIA. 5% values are part of a standard […]
Here’s something that never would have occurred to me — using old contact lens cases to hold and organize surface-mount and other tiny electronics parts. Small Parts Tray made from Contact Lens Cases
