The Geek Group shows us how to build a Bucket Capacitor. The process uses 12 beer bottles, I can think of a better way of emptying those bottles rather than dumping them in the bush. Looks like the crimp on connectors worked well here for Chris but I have never had much luck when crimping ring terminals onto solid wire, I normally solder them in place. “The parts you will
The guys over at iFixit have taken apart the tiny new iPod Nano 6th Generation iPod. Not sure I like the way the new 6th Generation iPod Nano has gone, the form factor has shrunk tremendously and because of this there are lots of features that are now missing, most notably is the camera. The coolest thing about the new Nano is that it has a touch screen though. I
If you are looking for a new desk lamp don’t go to Walmart, get out some hand tools (or a CNC or Laser Cutter) out and make your own. This crazy Wooden LED Desk Lamp Project design was done by jeff-o. He installed a 3 watt LED in the head for a nice amount light. “The majority of the lamp is made of 1/4″ and 1/2″ Baltic Birch plywood. I
With all the technology around us there will often come a time when you wish it would work in a slightly different way. Well unless you work as one of the design engineers in the company that made the product chances are you will just have to suck it up and live with what was produced. Well when Matt from Openschemes was in this situation with his Western Digital WDTV
Daniel Garcia from Protostack has made a good tutorial describing the steps to Understand How to use External Interrupts on an ATmega168. It is nice to forget about manually coding to look for changes in state of inputs and other conditions within the microcontroller. Interrupts allow us to keep on doing real work while the system keep monitoring for changes. “Microcontroller interrupts are just like that. The microcontroller is executing
I had never heard of the system that this radio used to be used on. It was tied into the telephone system and received the audio programming over the phone line. Since this system has been discontinued the 1953 Radio was upgraded to play MP3s and FM Radio. The neat thing about the conversion is that it still uses all the original electronics to make the sound so it still
John Boxall of Tronixstuff is known for his electronic kit reviews, he recently did a hands on build review of our IR Jammer Kit. You have to love his Fluke meter, if you haven’t seen one of these before you might think it’s a meter the size of a display but it’s actually a normal sized meter with a removable display. This would allow the display be placed in a
