How-To: Professional Perfboards
In this tutorial, you will learn to print layout templates and silkscreens onto perfboard. This will make populating as well as soldering a lot easier PLUS it looks professional.
Laser printer
Treasure Finder
Who hasn’t dreamed about owning their own metal detector and searching for buried treasure, or at least a few dropped coins? In this project, we will build a metal detector based on a dual oscillator circuit. One oscillator is fixed, and the other varies depending upon the proximity of metal objects. The beat frequency between […]
Whack-a-Mole Game
Jim Chen designed an excellent electronic “Whack-a-Mole” game using 555 timers, LEDs, and bent-diode touch sensors, that you can build on a solderless breadboard
Take a Hidden Picture
Take a picture is a fine-art project by artists Brad Blucher and Kyle Clements. In the exhibit, the human eye see is only able to see blank surfaces (in our case, blank canvases). People walk up to the show space and see blank canvases hanging on the wall. They see absolutely nothing, then make some […]
Pages of a Forbidden Tome
An easy method for producing weathered “antiqued” paper.
