DIY Projects

Alarm clock case mod

Alarm clock case mod

Carl sent in his alarm clock case mod, turned out pretty nice! – I did this neat little Digital Clock-Radio casemod as an excuse to play with lexan and update my bathroom’s decor a bit. It was a lot of fun and I think it turned out pretty well. It’s nice to know you can […]

DIY LED Spinning globe

DIY LED Spinning globe

Nick writes – “Here are brief details of a project I completed using a PIC 16F73 Micro-controller. I’d seen persistence of vision clocks, like these from Bob Blick and Daryl Bender, on the Internet and wanted to take things a step further. I wanted to make a display which displayed a clock and a spinning […]

HOW TO – Homemade RFID reader

HOW TO – Homemade RFID reader

Doug writes – “For our final project, we designed and built (and exhaustively tested) an RFID-based proximity security system for use with Cornell Identification cards, which have been RFID-embedded since fall of 2003. The idea for this project was sort of spawned from our general interest in RFID technologies and the near-simultaneous occurance of Lab […]

Gas Tank Orchestra

Gas Tank Orchestra

Here’s an entire orchestra made up of discarded automobile gas tanks – “Gas Tank Orchestra is a trash-picking do-it-yourself reprocessing project featuring electro-acoustic instruments built from junked automobile gas tanks salvaged from New Orleans’ side streets. The tanks have been fitted with strings, pipes, hoses, mouthpieces, etc. and born again as bass, harp, zither, brass, […]