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July 11, 2007
Electronics page for beginners
Here's another beginner electronics page to bookmark if/when needed when you're start out learning electronics...
This page is for people who want to get started with electronics. The web needs a good tutorial on this subject which doesn't assume prior knowledge or experience, and since I have yet to find one, and "Find a need a fill it" is still as applicable as it ever was, this page came about. Eventually, some small projects featuring step-by-step instructions on how to piece stuff together and make it work should appear here. For now, some basic theory and fundamentals are here.Electronics - Link & cache.
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Jul 11, 2007 02:00 AM
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MAKE on Exploratorium webcasts
There are now two Maker Saturday webcasts that we did live at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, available at explo.tv. The first one was Making Your Own Train Car with Paul Cesewski. Paul builds rides as a member of Cyclecide and he got the idea to build his own train car and ride the abandoned rails in the North Bay. He shows how he makes a train wheel from a car's wheel rim. The second webcast was Making Blinkybugs with Ken Murphy. Ken shows us how to build a simple circuit using a battery, an LED and guitar string. He shapes them into insects that blink when their antennas become excited (by wind or movement.)
You can find them both listed under recent Webcasts at Explo.tv. This Saturday Dale will be be in Austin, TX but the Maker Saturday Webcast will be "Making Hyperbolic Crochet with Margaret Wertheim."
Exploratorium Upcoming Webcasts - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 11, 2007 01:00 AM
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DIY Drinking strawz
These straws look like a lot of fun, the $13 set comes with 20 rubber connectors and 16 straw parts to make your own drinking straw contraption... - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 11, 2007 12:00 AM
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July 10, 2007
Templates for brass etching
Papercraft and balloon artist (no, really) Twyst, inspired by Make pal Jake von Slatt's brass etching experiments, has been doing some etching projects of his own. On his site, Twysted Method, he's made available several templates of cogs and flourishes (in .psd format) suitable for brass etching art.
Steampunk templates [Via] - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 10, 2007 11:00 PM
Crafts, DIY Projects, Retro |
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Typewriter keyboard
Here's a good tutorial on retro-izing a keyboard using some clever photography and sticker making... Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 10:00 PM
Computers, DIY Projects |
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DIY Margarita mixer
Chris created a home-made margarita mixer, made entirely out of junk. At the heart lies an electronic circuit that drives a tachometer with a shift light and fully functioning light tree to practice drag reaction racing times... Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 08:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Making anatomical marionettes
A UK puppet builder has made a really beautiful marionette using the most interesting process - building it from the "skeleton" up using a combination of polymorph plastic, foam and creative paperclay - Link.
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Jul 10, 2007 06:00 PM
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Supaghettoblaster
Kari writes -
I have always been interested in electronics. Building mechanical things hasn't been hard either. Project started somewhere around year 2003 and I began the work by researching what kind of components and circuit are available and how to fullfill the requirements I had in my vision:Supaghettoblaster, Thanks Pekar! Link.* Must be mobile and use battery
* A LOT of power and volume
* Relatively good sound quality
* Plenty of bass ;)
* Party should last long enough and therefore the battery should do it as well!
* And of course it should look absolutely cool
* Internal signal source not required. Just input for MiniDisc, iPod, whatever
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 04:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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Vacuum tube sculptures
Peter A. Luber's incredible sculptures-in-a-vacuum tube collection, thanks Mark! Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 02:00 PM
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The DIY set-top box in an altoids tin event @ MAKE/ETSY
The ybox is a kit for an internet-enabled set top box in an altoids tin. Originally presented as a proof of concept at Yahoo's hackday, it developed into kits and workshops for 2007's Maker Faire.
While the kits have sold out, Uncommon Projects will be hosting a free workshop for any New Yorkers who want to make their kits together with help and advice along the way. The ybox kit offers a unique marriage of microcontroller work with networking, ntsc video and web applications. Some basic soldering skills and familiarity with physical computing concepts is advised.
The workshop is open to anyone, with or without a kit. The first hour will be devoted to a hands-on kitmaking tutorial and then we will explore and discuss how to implement software for the device - Link.
The fun starts July 17th, 7pm - feel free to show up and watch or a bit later just to hang out - here's how to get to the labs.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 01:00 PM
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monome 40h kits
Brian writes -
we've produced a set of kits to create monome-like devices: a logic kit (the important part, includes pre-flashed atmel chip and all parts, 100% through-hole soldering = easy to assemble) and a keypad kit (includes pcb and our custom keypads). all source files, parts lists, firmware, schematics, and layouts are posted for your better understanding and custom projects. devices made with these kits can take advantage of our continually-growing library of open-source user-contributed software.monome - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 12:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Kits |
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Grenade art
Squidsicle is making luxury and ducky grenade art from duds, Thanks Jack! Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 11:00 AM
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Cyclecide
Cyclecide has a big show coming up this weekend, Pedal Monster, Sunday July 15th. It will include the Pedal Powered Carnival Ride Midway, The Life Size Game of Mouse Trap, and lots of live music - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 10:00 AM
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Stupid Wi-Fi speaker tricks
David writes -
The AirPort Express receives the Wi-Fi music signal from iTunes, converts it to analog, and then injects it into the old boombox through a car cassette adapter. The belt raises the tweeters to brighten the sound.Stupid Wi-Fi Speaker Tricks - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog - Link.All components were items I salvaged from closets, including the boombox-with-no-line-input, the Old Belt, and the cassette adapter, which I hadn't used since I'd replaced my factory car stereos.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 09:00 AM
DIY Projects, Music, Wireless |
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The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival
If you're in the Bay Area, The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival starts on the 11th (tomorrow)...
From July 11 to 14, The Crucible will celebrate artistic creation inspired by fire and light at the Seventh Annual Fire Arts Festival with a spectacular open-air exhibition of interactive fire art and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast.The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival - [via] Link.Here, you will see artists who work with fire, taming and shaping this wild element. Flames flicker on the antlers worn by stiltwalking performers; dancers spin flaming balls and hoops of fire.
The centerpiece and finale of the Festival is The Fire Odyssey, a modernized theatrical interpretation of Homer's epic poem.
From the pages of MAKE:
Burn to Learn. MAKE 10 - page 42. The Crucible industrial arts school's community of practice. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 08:00 AM
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Convert your vintage bike light to LED power
Here's my new bike light, I enlisted the help of LadyAda (We used the MintyBoost's boost converter to get 3.3v)...
This is a quickie project showing how you can upgrade a vintage bike lamp for a '60s or '70s roadster into a powerful 1W LED light. Its much more efficient and a lot brighter!Quickie Projects - Convert your vintage light to LED power - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 07:00 AM
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Fish tank LED moonlight / moonlighting
Billytkid writes -
This instructable will show you how to safely add LED lighting to a fishtank/vivarium. I've tried previous versions of night / moon lighting in the tank, but none were up to the task:Instructables Fish tank LED moonlight / moonlighting - Link.Moonlight v1 - waterproofed high power LED's attached to the side of the tank - these gave pretty good lighting but there were too many pools of light in the tank, and also the number of wires was pretty unsightly.
Moonlight v2 - Cold cathode lighting (from a PC mod kit) , however as Ive got a large tank (180ltr) and I needed to extend the wires from the cathode tubes to the inverter - however when I did this I found that they no longer worked anywhere near as well (it seems this is a known issue with cathode lights).
So....back to Maplin and moonlights v3 is here!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 06:00 AM
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BongoPong
Imagitronics writes -
When I first set out to learn electronics several months ago, the first kit that I assembled was the Velleman Pong kit, available at ThinkGeek and numerous other online retailers.imagitronics ยป BongoPong - [via] Link.I knew right away that some day I would find a way to mod this kit and make it my own. A few weeks ago I stumbled across an article on HackADay about a clever hacker who had modified his pong kit to receive input from his flexed arm muscles.
This hack got me thinking about different ways that I could interface with my pong game, but every idea seemed overdone and not very original. Friday afternoon I was driving home from the store when I got the idea of controlling the game using an Indo board (also known as a Bongo board, hence the name).
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 05:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Gaming, Kits |
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Chevy V8 grill
Check out this Chevy V8 grill that Trent made! - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 04:00 AM
Made On Earth |
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Little people
Great collection of photos and miniature settings of little people doing things, I think this would be fun to do an office or a major city... Anyone know more about these? Link (Updated).
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 10, 2007 03:00 AM
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