Electronics: Fun and Fundamentals — LED Photo Lights
Easy, efficient, and effective.
Posted by Charles Platt
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics, Photography & Video | No Comments
Heat gun Projects
EZ-EL Wire Skateboard
This guide will teach you how to make your very own EZ-EL Wire Skateboard! For more cool ideas check out https://ez-el.com/tutorials! The EZ-EL Wire Kit you will need for this...
Posted by EZELWire
Categories: Art & Design | No Comments
Little Big Lamp
Add bright lighting to your space with powerful LEDs housed in PVC.
Posted by Charles Platt
Categories: Furniture, Electronics | 3 Comments
“The Towel” R/C Stunt Plane
Build a robust R/C flying-wing airplane that’s fun to fly and great to learn on.
Posted by Breck Baldwin
Categories: Electronics | 5 Comments
Bump Sensor for the Tiny Wanderer
The Tiny Wanderer robot is meant to be played with. After you have explored the two IR sensors that come with the kit, it is time to try new robot...
Posted by Doug Paradis
Categories: Robotics | No Comments
Tiny Wanderer
In early 2011 my robot club, the Dallas Personal Robotics Group, was looking for a way to help our beginning members build up their skills. To this end, we produced...
Posted by Doug Paradis
Categories: Electronics, Robotics | No Comments
Egg Heads Puzzle
As a retirement present for Joe Malkevitch, a geometer friend who likes puzzles, I designed and built this 1′-diameter Egg Heads puzzle from ¼" walnut. Many of my sculpture and...
Posted by George Hart
Categories: Home, Woodworking | No Comments
Solar USB Charger
Charge up your USB devices with the power of the sun. By adding a small solar panel and two diodes to a standard USB cable, you can plug that cable...
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 7 Comments
Chemical Woodburning
If you want to apply a maker’s mark or other repeated pyrograph to wooden goods, but can’t justify the expense of a custom branding iron, an indistinguishable effect can be...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan
Categories: Science, Woodworking | No Comments
The Autophenakistoscope
Motorize a phenakistoscope, a 19th-century parlor novelty that preceded motion pictures, and keep its frames synched to an LED strobe by using a sensor and an Arduino microcontroller. Invented in...
Posted by Dan Rasmussen
Categories: Arduino, Electronics | No Comments
Mix-and-Match Greeting Cards
Here are 3 simple paper-crafting techniques you can combine and recombine to create gorgeous holiday cards. I’ve used machine sewing, heat embossing, and paper embroidery to make 2 very different...
Posted by Diane Gilleland
Categories: Art & Design, Paper Crafts | No Comments
Cord Curling, Part 1 – Thermoforming
I really heart coiled cords. I think coiling is a very elegant way of dealing with the problem of unsightly slack cables, and often I find myself wishing that this...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan
Categories: Electronics, Music | 1 Comment
