Matt Meerian of Home Brew Electronics sent in this Electronic Bird Catcher project that he completed a few weeks ago. It is a device that was hacked together to catch a robin that was causing mischief around his new house. He tried a few simple methods of getting rid of the bird but they weren’t very effective. He decided to let some technology help him out, he designed a quick
UPDATE: The project is complete have a look at everything here. Nerf Gun Hack part 1, part 2, part 3 This is the final part of the Nerf Gun Hack. Check out part 1 which goes over the how the chosen gun works and part 2 which goes over the electronics used in the project. This time a completed perfboard version of the project is built and the system is
Collin Cunningham made a great video about the benefits of using perfboard for prototyping circuits. Via: Adafruit “When you think “DIY electronics,” one of the first images that likely comes to mind is of parts and wire soldered to a standard piece of perforated circuit board — and that makes sense. Perfboard is widely used because it’s so versatile. Essentially, it’s just a grid of potential solder-point connections.”
I had great fun working on a cool Multimeter Clock project which got picked up by Design News for their Gadget Freak series. I thought it would be cool to have a clock that looks like an old Simpson 260 multimeter. The clock consists of three multimeters, the first meter displays hours, the second displays minutes and the last displays seconds. A 16F628A PIC microcontroller keeps track of time and
Richard Sudney (Youtube user 2sudsy) has been building Crystal Sets since he was 9 years old. He is a bit older than that now and his passion hasn’t drifted, it has just been honed over the years. Via: Make “A crystal radio receiver, also called a crystal set, is a very simple radio receiver, popular in the early days of radio. It needs no battery or power source and runs
Youtube user vegmatic1966 has made lots of electronic experimentation videos. The two videos above explain a simple AM Transmitter that uses a 555 Timer and the video below shows off a AM Transmitter that uses a PICAXE microcontroller.
Adam Greig from Negative Acknowledge has developed a nice Nerf Sentry Gun, he used the NERF Vulcan which was the same gun I was thinking of using for my Nerf Gun project which is currently being finished but it was quite a bit more than the knock off that I ended up using. Via: Hack a Day “The gun itself is now running off a 3-cell lipo pack, which about
