Upgrade Your Office With An RFID Reading Door
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DIY Projects
$25 DIY DSLR Camera Crane
If you’re shooting a video and would like to get a nice vertical shot without breaking the bank, then try this $25 mini camera crane from OliviaTech. With some aluminum angle, square tube, a quick release mount, and hardware, you can build a portable jib boom to get the right shot.
Luma League: Superbright LEDs Save Lives Supercheap
Inexpensive DIY phototherapy equipment is saving the lives of newborns around the world.
How-To: Carve a Stone Bowl
Want to make a gift to eternity? Nothing says forever quite like a hand-carved stone bowl.
An Inexpensive Self-Balancing Robot
This self-balancing robot was designed and built by Kerry Wong and uses just a few ICs and some basic electronic components to get the job done. This project is definitely more up your alley if you’re interested in using discrete components rather than a microcontroller designed for prototyping, but the cost in doing it this way makes it attractive.
MicroRAX and Lego CNC
Jason Welch built this lovely CNC from MicroRAX t-slot beams with Lego bricks for the linear paths. See the video’s notes for some notes on sourcing the various components.
Homebuilt PCB Drill Press
reboots used a Micromot 50 rotary tool and a modified rack from a hamfest to build a very precise drill press for his homemade PCBs. Mounting the motor was tricky. The nose of the Micromot is a machined steel collar, but the body is ABS plastic with perceptible dimensional variance. If the motor was not […]
