Electronics: Fun and Fundamentals — LED Photo Lights
Easy, efficient, and effective.
Easy, efficient, and effective.
Several years ago I watched a viral YouTube video that starred Jerry the Dachshund, whose engineer owner had built him his very own automated ball launcher. I had two dogs at the time, and was also unemployed with some time on my hands, so I decided to try my hand at building one. After a […]
If you have a router and the means to cut a straight line with it, this trick for building a 5-sided acrylic box is considerably easier than the common slab-joint method, and gives better-looking results, to boot.
It all started with a small LCD salvaged from an old printer. I recruited my code-savvy older brother, Adam, and we soon had the LCD displaying text from an Arduino microcontroller. This was neat, but it was inconvenient having to plug the Arduino into a computer for reprogramming whenever we wanted to change the text. […]
For sous-vide and more — it controls both heating and cooling!
Create your own router attachment for cutting circular disks from, or boring circular holes in, sheet stock.
Need a bright surface for your projector? Get high gain at low cost using house paint and sandblasting beads.