ATX Power supply to bench unit mod
ContraptionMaker writes – “This project was inspired by this excellent wiki entry and Matthew Beckler’s project found here…” – Link. Previous: HOW TO – ATX -> Lab Bench Power Supply Conversion – Link.
DIY Projects
DIY: The ONE SHOT paperbook
Mimi writes – “I wanna share with you the beautiful thing that is the ONE SHOT. Basically the ONE SHOT is a mini-comic/zine/book type thing that’s made using a single sheet of 8 1/2 X11 paper. meaning, of course, they’re cheap to reproduce at any copy joint, as well as super easy to five-finger on […]
HOW TO – Fuji FinePix 2300 IR modification
Ka Nai’a’ writes – “A while back I saw someone had taken a webcam and changed it over to an InfraRed (IR) webcam. I had thought about doing that before but never did because I saw all these new webcams that had the IR LEDs on the camera and made it an IR webcam. Even […]
HOW TO – Satellite Radio on your mobile device
Wired has an article about some Makers who got tired of waiting for satellite radio to get to their phones / mobile devices, so they did it themselves – “Fans of U.S. satellite radio have been waiting eagerly for nearly a year to get XM or Sirius onto their cell phones. But as the two […]
idBoy – The Game Boy-powered transmitter controller
Aaron writes – “idBoy is a piece of software for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. With idBoy and a simple homebrew interface, the Game Boy Advance makes a dandy bunny. It has great battery life, has square-wave synthesis audio channels (among others) perfect for producing CW (morse code) tones, and has a link port perfect […]
HOW TO – Using an oscilloscope
We get a lot of emails and IMs about oscilloscopes so here’s a link from Doctronics here for everyone – “An oscilloscope is easily the most useful instrument available for testing circuits because it allows you to see the signals at different points in the circuit. The best way of investigating an electronic system is […]
HOW TO – Make cheap and easy guitar pickups from junk
Lennyb writes – “here is a little tutorial about improvised guitar pickups made from easy to find junk” – Link. Related: Other guitar projects – Link.
