DIY Projects
RGB LED Project
Gerry Duprey has created a project that allows precise computer control of up to 13 RGB LEDs. The controllers can be strung together for control over hundreds of LEDs. The software is open for revision. Gerry is active on the HomeVision user forum, and we (members of the forum) are working on a “group buy” of the PC boards and components. Thanks Kerry! Link.
DIY carbonating at Home with Improvised Equipment and Soda Fountains
Carbonating tap water to make seltzer is easy, fast, and absurdly inexpensive with my improvised apparatus. All that is required is to place CO2 (carbon dioxide) gas in agitated contact with chilled water for a few seconds. Link.
DIY Laser Tag System
Bryan writes “Milestag is an open source, high quality, and full featured DIY laser tag system that can be built from basic electronic parts avaliable from almost any electronics parts store. All this for about $50-$100 a gun, where a commercial gun equivalent to it would cost around $800-$2000 a gun”. Link.
HOW TO make a Nintendo controller mouse
If you are like me you get really excited when you find two Nintendo controllers at the Salvation Army. One was priced at $1.00 and the other at $.37 (i didn’t fight the pricing). Of course, they get home and meanwhile occupy a part of my brain that is like a broken stove. There is this back burner that is constantly on. Ideas get on there and just simmer away. So the idea for one of the controllers was to make it a card reader that i can plug my sd or compact flash cards into to transfer files. Sunday morning i came up with my idea for the second one… make it a mouse. Link.
HOW TO make a CPU moonshine still…
A CPU based moonshine maker. The basics of distillation are simple, you heat alcoholic fluid until the alcohol starts to evaporate, then you cool it so it condenses elsewhere into pure alcohol. To put it simply, the key components are a heating device and a cooling device. Now the average PC, has both a heating […]
HOW TO make a USB IR receiver
Decent HOW TO for USB IR receiver …the construction is not that easy as for the serial IR receiver, but it should not be a big problem for an amateur solderer to solder the circuit referring to the following instruction. Since I wanted to build up everything as small as possible, it took me quite some time fiddling around to develop the following circuit. Link.