 If you want your next project to have a wow factor why not make a glass PCB! You can see how CNLohr makes them in the video above. A glass microscope slide is what the circuit will be made on. He puts some UV activated glue on the slide and sticks some copper leaf on it. A UV eraser is used to cure the glue so that the slide
 Who knew you could use the guts of a power transistor as a solar cell! Steven fromRimStar even takes it a step further and chains five 2n3055 in a base to collector configuration to generate enough voltage to power a small calculator. Funny how some electronics form China are working fakes. The small calculator he got has a small solar cell in it already but once the case
This DIY Strip Light Stair Lighting Design and Install over at Speedy Signals looks nice. The project uses a ATmega328P which is very common in the Arduino scene. The microcontroller interfaces with some shift registers to power the lights. Some 2N7000 mosfets are used to drive the actual LED lights. By using the Arduino ShiftPWM library he is able to have individual control of all the steps. Beam sensors were
The Pixy shows what is possible if you off load the complex task of video processing when it comes to vision processing. The kickstarter is already successful so we can already think of this as a product. I think this will change many of the portable projects that we see next year. Thanks to Rich LeGrand for the tip. Â “Pixy is a small camera about half the size of
 This Electric Imp Garage Door Opener is a great enhancement to your stock garage door opener. You can get some expensive garage doors that have lots of these features but with this project you are able to have it all. For example if you would like to get an alert at 10pm if you forgot your door open it would be simple to do. Or why not just
If you need an easy way to control the light color of your strip lights this weekend project uses an android phone to send data to an Arduino via a USB cable. You are able to select various colors on the android device and have the LED strip instantly display what you are doing. I think using an Ethernet connected Arduino and a WiFi app would make for a
With gold worth some serious money and lots of throw away electronics it seems that gold scrapping is more popular than ever. Seems like people are even making a name for themselves like Scrapper Girl.
