I wanted to be able to charge my cell phone, MP3 player, and other USB devices while not having plug-in power available. This hand-crank generator, originally designed by Ben Heck,...
Posted by Rich Reynolds
Categories: Electronics | 1 Comment
This is the seventh of eight guides in a series documenting my build of MakerGear’s Mosaic desktop FDM/FFF 3D printer kit. the frame, the Y-axis, the X-axis, the Z-axis, the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan
Categories: General, 3D Printing | No Comments
We are restoring old table lamps we had so we can use them now. We took them to paint, and my parents told me they would pay me 2 dollars...
Posted by Tobias Alvarez
Categories: Furniture | No Comments
I built this project when I was in the 6th grade, for a competition at the IIT Techfest in Jan. 2010. The IIT Techfest is a competition for engineering students....
Posted by angad Daryani
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This tutorial shows how to connect a button to the TurtleBot power and gyro board.
Posted by Michael Ferguson
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A garage door opener openly displayed inside your car can be an incentive to thieves. Documents from the glove compartment are likely to reveal your home address, and with the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan
Categories: Home, Fun & Games | No Comments
Jim Chen designed an excellent electronic "Whack-a-Mole" game using 555 timers, LEDs, and bent-diode touch sensors, that you can build on a solderless breadboard; for a full explanation, check out...
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games | No Comments
"Bring It Back" Microgravity Kit by Prashant Rao & Subra Sankaran Prashant Rao, Ph.D., Principal Engineer, Barrios/Jacobs/ESCG Subra Sankaran, Ph.D., Senior Thermal Specialist, MEIT/Jacobs/ESCG at NASA JSC, 2224 Bay Area...
Posted by Prashant Rao
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Here you will learn how to wire the Arduino clone up and how to start your first project. In this tutorial, I am working with a breadboardable ATMega Lite Dev...
Posted by Chandler
Categories: Arduino, Electronics | No Comments
If you are looking at this project, make sure you have seen my previous one, Getting Started with Arduino Clones. In this tutorial, we will continue from where we left...
Posted by Chandler
Categories: Arduino, Electronics | No Comments
In this project, we will wire in a sensor and add a program that I made myself, so that our TVs greet us when we walk in the room. However,...
Posted by Chandler
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A while ago we built a $50 dollar sous vide machine to start messing around with sous vide cooking. We loved it, and it has been precise and stable over...
Posted by Abe
Categories: Computers & Mobile | No Comments
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