I really like the inexpensive gimbal support developed by William over at YB2nornal for his $15 steadicam project. I may bogart it for a forthcoming Make: Project. Via Hack a day. From the pages of MAKE: Johnny Lee showed us how to build a $14 Video Camera Stabilizer way back in MAKE 01.
Qs wrote up an instructable for his “Musicator Jr.”, an LED light organ about the size of a 9V battery – The ‘brains’ of this project is a LM358 general-purpose op-amp which costs under 30-cents. The first half of the circuit is an amplifier which boosts the 500-micro-volts from an electret mic to about 1-volt. […]
What do you do if your kids are always leaving the refrigerator door open? Make a scrolling Arduino powered sign of course! It may be a bit overkill, but it’s hard to miss the large format LED matrix scrolling in front of you. Next step, shock audio alert! We have 5 kids in our household, […]
Instructables user Toglefritz built this pocket-sized fishing pole and writes: Conventional fishing poles are long, fragile, and hard to carry, or otherwise transport. This Instructable will show you how to construct a fishing pole, complete with a reel, that will fit nicely in your pocket. You can keep it handy, and go fishing any time […]
So there I am in my studio about to solder up another kit, and all my solder is gone! Who could have used it all up? It’s happened before, and this time I’m going to find out exactly who did it. I had a really good idea who it was, but I needed to know […]
Last week I banned my dog from using my soldering iron since she used up all my solder. Well, that hasn’t stopped her from learning how to program a video game on the XGS AVR 8-Bit Development System. There isn’t any soldering required, so I guess it’s OK. The only question I have now is, […]
Heat pipes, I am obliged to point out, are awesome. When somebody first explained to me how they work, I was like, “No way. Uh-unh. Don’t believe you.” And yet they persist in existing, and working, in spite of my disbelief. I’m still getting over the pain. Lots of people sell heat pipes to overclockers/PC […]
