This Portable Car Alternator Charging System from The Back Shed solves quite a few problems when it comes to portable power. If you have a dead battery and no plug close by to charge it what do you do? Get a boost is one option but if you would like to be self reliant this alternator charging system is a cool idea. It uses a small gas motor to turn
Check out this RGB Viking Helmet with LED Mohawk. If you are looking for some attention this is guaranteed to get it. It uses OctoBrite LED boards to make the magic happen Via: Build Lounge “The control box was a pain, but such things usually are. There was barely enough room for the parts and wires I was using…and it turned out that the electret amp was picking up too
Xellers shows us how to build a DIY Spark Gap Tesla Coil in this Instructable. When you are done looking at the Tesla Coil have a look at the DIY CRT he built! “Shoot foot-long bolts of lighting through the air, light fluorescent tubes without wires, and power your other high voltage experiments with the aid of this tabletop-sized Tesla coil! The key to this coil’s performance on such a
The prize this week is a solar flashlight, if you want to use this as a flashlight you better charge it during the day and not hidden in a drawer. 🙂 I am thinking that the housing could make for a very small surface mount project. Not sure if the solar cell would have enough power to energize a very low current circuit but I would think it should. This
Our friend Pete Mills sent in his latest project, it’s a DIY Guitar Pickup Winder. There have been quite a few DIY Winders build before but this one automates quite a lot of the steps. “Here is a feature list: -Pickup Winding with turn counting, RPM, ETA and auto stop -Stroboscopic guitar tuner -Ohm meter for coil resistance measurement -Gaussmeter for measuring polarity and magnetic flux density of pole pieces
Koen has just completed his 8X8X8 LED Cube which is powered by an Arduino. This is a really impressive looking build! “I finished my latest project. I wanted to build a led cube. It had to be big (8x8x8) and easy to build! I found a way to do it! 32 meter of stainless steel, 128 meter of wire ,8 meters of heat shrink, 8 max7219 chips later. It all
It seems whatever Apple touches turns to gold. So it doesn’t surprise me when I hear that their products are being copied and great lengths are being taken to get them into the market. But some of the extremes that have been occurring lately are just over the top. The video above shows what looks to be an Apple store in China but as it turned out it was completely
