Sean wrote: Hi all, I went to Maker Faire in NYC last month and put together a video of the people I met (including Kelvin Doe, who is at the end of the video). There’s some pretty amazing stuff, though it is mostly overview and not so much a step-by-step guide on how to create specific devices. Anyway, I hope you check it out, and I hope you like
If you have ever worked with SMD parts using tweezers gets old fast. Even the small vacuum pencils are not great. Vassilis Papanikolaou sent in the details of his solution. It uses a base that is similar to a CNC machine without the electronics. With this setup it is much easier to precisely align the parts, I am thinking that a version 2 could include mounting some motors to
I bet you thought your cell phone was the only thing with custom ringtones. Jason Poel Smith wrote in with his Doorbell with Custom Ringtones that he built using a Radio Shack Recording Module. “Most doorbells just make a simple generic tone. But I thought that it would be fun to modify a door bell so that it has a customizable ringtone. That way you can set it to play music
 Kelvin Doe who is also known as DJ Focus is a 15-Year-Old living in Sierra Leone. His community is not developed, for example the power only works one day a week. He has built an ton of electronic projects, the incredible thing is that since there is no Radio Shack handy he has to find his parts in trash cans. He also takes things apart to see how
If you want to help a great movie get made you might want to through a few dollars towards The Root Kit movie by Jonathan Schiefer. I just recently heard about this on Frame Rate (go to 3:10 to see the interview about the movie) and the plot sounds great. They are going to make it on a shoestring budget as far as movies are concerned but based on
What is the voltage on a AA battery? It would be around 1:30PM if you were using this voltmeter! A PICAXE 18M2 microcontroller is used to read an analog value, calculate what time it represents and then uses a stepper motor to spin the adjustment knob to have the clock show the voltage using the hour and minute hands. 🙂 Read more about the Analog Clock Voltmeter “The max
Thanks to David Powell from the Baltimore Hackerspace for sending in some details about the Lasershark which is a Laser Projector Project. It uses a LPC1343 – 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller to run the show, make sure you watch the video below to see this thing in action! “This board is intended to be a low cost open-source USB Showcard for folks who want to make their own 1
