Want to learn how a Xylophon is made from scratch? The guys from NerdKits go over the basics, when the Xylophon is built they automate it by making some coils and drive it using a NerdKit. This is a fun project that is sure to provide some holiday cheer. “Our homemade xylophone was a great way to put our milling machine to use cutting the bars for each note, and
Giorgos Lazaridis from PCB Heaven has made a DIY Acrylic Bending Machine. It uses a high power lamp to heat the acrylic from underneath, in about 3 minutes the acrylic is soft and can be bent into any shape you like. The area that the acrylic lays is made out of aluminum and is kept cool with circulated water so that the heating is very focused.
Address stamps are very common and cheap to get made but if you want to get something custom made get ready to open your wallet and bleed some money. Using the DIY Rubber Stamp Making steps that jovolomo has shared we can now make these complex stamps ourselves using either a CNC machine or an exacto knife and a steady hand. He carves the reverse pattern into a block of
Tired of watching your flat panel LCD and miss the days when you were trouble shooting your circuits with a CRT scope? You can have the best of both worlds with this circuit. CameramanLink designed the circuit below to make it happen. If you have a few hours to kill have a look at the ton of projects that CameramanLink has done! “Homemade television video monitor built from scratch. It
Joe Grand who you might remember from Prototype This has been working on a Laser Range Finder, he has been nice enough to share his build issues and successes over at the Parallax Forums. He demonstrates how a CMUcam can be used to look at the reflected laser dot to determine range based on triangulation. The Parallax CMUcam he is using looks like it is currently out of stock at
Magnetic Swipe Cards are used everywhere, probably the most common one that we all have in our wallets is the one that is built into our bank and credit cards. Craig from the Flashing LEDs blog was had a reader that was sitting around with no purpose. He swiped his University ID through it and found that the only thing on track 2 was university ID number, this card system
Jee Labs has some interesting modules that can be used as cool building blocks or if you want to build your own based on their ideas you can because all of the design details have been released. This Indoor Temperature, Dewpoint, Humidity and Pressure Monitoring System is a great example of what can be done with a few of these modules.
