 It isn’t a simply task to make a self balancing anything. But if you are thinking of taking on the challenge XenonJohn has documented his design details for this Self-Balancing Raleigh Chopper that could give you a head start. “Data from the IMU is read by the Arduino Mega 1280. I use a Mega 1280 because they are a lot cheaper online than the 2560, and about
 If you have some valuables that you need to keep safe you lock them in your safe (as the name implies). It probably has a dial that is used to dial in your secret combination. The Combinator is A Comparator Combination Safe just to spice things up a bit. You won’t find a microcontroller in this device even though it is an electronic safe, instead it uses all
Steven from Rimstar.org built an interesting spooky Halloween skull to scare anyone who walks by. The video below goes through the construction details. “Two heads on a body are scarier than one so for halloween I mounted an Arduino controlled skull on my shoulder with the electronics in a backpack and a hand controller hidden in my hand with the cable running down my sleeve. The jaw opens, the
Toyota Tarago shows us how he installed some LED center lights on his car. Took a bit of hacking to get them in there, a hot tip of a soldering iron was used to do some cutting through the plastic. I have often done the same but only for some small sections. I think I would have taken out the dremel for that job but it would have made
Electro Labs has a new project posted, this time it’s an Arduino Lithium Battery Charger. With Lithium batteries you can’t just stick a trickle charge on the battery and call it done with a lot of older battery chemistries. There is quite a lot of technology packed into the design to get the job done and lots of room for user customization. “The lithium battery charger circuit is designed
Printing this car took just 44 hours our out of 44 parts. Just bolt on some electronics and wheels are you are ready to drive! Love the design but up close it doesn’t look polished like a metal vehicle but you can see that it goes together in thick levels. What will we see in the future? Instead of customizing your new car by picking a color, interior trim
 This DIY Clothespin Piano is a fun project by adamkumpf from fiddlewax that will give you small physical piano keys to let you play songs on your iPad without tapping the screen with your fingers. “Touchscreens are great, but when it comes to playing music on them, the lack of physical keys can be a drag. So I decided to round up some household stuff and make a piano
