With high-definition television becoming increasingly widespread, many people are tossing their old NTSC or PAL video equipment to the curb. But as makers, we can reclaim this old equipment for our own projects. Enter The Video Experimenter. This Arduino shield by Nootropic Design lets you program your Arduino microcontroller to manipulate and analyze NTSC or […]
Jeffrey Nelson bought the SX2 HiTorque Mini Mill but didn’t want to drop $125 for the tachometer add-on, so built his own. I knew before purchasing this mill that it had a tachometer display port on it much like the SC2 Lathe has. I also knew there was no way in hell I was going […]
We have covered septuagenarian Palestine, TX, resident Pat Delany’s DIY multimachine, which is mostly built from recycled auto parts, before. Following on the success of that design, Pat has branched out, researching and promulgating three more simple build-it-yourself tool designs: A treadle-powered electrical generator, a simple compound lever drill press, and—most interesting to me—a lathe made from cast concrete and aligned with wedges sawn flush after the concrete has set up. Engineering for Change has a good overview of the story and the available online resources. [Thanks, Jake!]
The Pendulum Challenge Kit from the Maker Shed includes everything you need to make the project featured in Make, Volume 26. This unique game features 15 LEDs arranged in an arc to simulate the path of a swinging pendulum that the player attempts to stop at its lowest point.
The Voice Shield from the Maker Shed is an analog audio shield for the Arduino. It allows you to easily add audio to your next project. The Voice Shield uses a unique and very user friendly way to access different sound bytes making it easy to build devices that talk.
An easy, useful, inexpensive, and delightful improvisation from model-maker and Instructables user WiredWebbo101, who needed a handy tool to sand primer in some hard-to-reach places on his models. So he modified a disposable electric toothbrush by flattening and pointing the head and attaching a dart-shaped piece of sandpaper. Wonderful!
Don’t let the sexy name fool you, the Extech 382213 is all business — the business of powering your awesome hacking projects! The 382213 plays the desktop power supply role — it gives you carefully measured voltages to play with when working on a project, reducing the number of batteries you might waste, as well […]
