If you want to amp up your picture taking options a camera slider could be a great option. Purchasing one can be expensive so why not build your own. skepticaljay has built this one with a great list of required parts and a guide to make it.  “Parts: 1 10 foot 3/4 inch conduit ~1 foot of 3/4 inch schedule 40 pvc ~1 foot of 1 inch schedule 40 pvc
CNLohr has been playing with the popular addressable WS2812B LED lights and the powerful (and cheap) ESP8266. In these videos he discusses how to optimize their usage together and provides full source code to get a foot hold on your own experiments.
There are easier things to make than a DIY speaker but the essential pieces of a speaker are able to be cobbled together in your workshop. It may not sound better than a $5 store bought one but at least you can say you built it with your own hands in your workshop. As Gursimran Singh mentions you might need a small amplifier to get a bit more volume
If your car doesn’t show you the direction you are traveling it would be handy to build this DIY Car Compass. DaAwesomeP built this neat device, most cell phones have this capability but it is nice to have a piece of hardware doing the work in a fixed location. A Pro Mini is used to read in position data from a magnetometer and then output the results on a
 AvE takes apart tons of tools and when he wanted to measure torque he didn’t want to spend thousands of dollars for a professional system. He ordered some parts from ebay, connected them up to an arduino and output some serial results direct on his computer. The main component that is doing the work is a load cell which outputs a small resistance change when force is applied to
LightBlue Bean+ by Punch Through is a cool little device that will bring your next idea to life almost as fast as you can think about it. You can easily tie it to your smart phone using Bluetooth Low Energy. The system is very energy efficient lasting up to 1 year on a charge and getting communication distances up to 400 meters depending on the configuration. They have already
If you like fire crackers but are in a location where you can’t use real explosives this Electronic Fire Cracker project will let you simulate fire crackers. A smoke machine and some strobe lights will provide the visual effect, a speaker will be producing sound and a raspberry pi will be controlling the show. Some PIR sensors are used to sense people and trigger the effects. The design has
