Our friend Carlos Asmat has built a Panoramic Camera with lots of build details. You can find the code that runs the system here and more results of the camera system here. "Materials Hitec HS-785HB Winch Servo Motor ServoCity SPT200 Direct Drive Pan & Tilt System Pololu Micro Serial 8 Servo Controller Hitec HS-425BB Servo Motor A digital camera Small plastic container Battery holders (Rechargeable) Batteries A piece of
Here is my latest creation, it’s a Gear Clock. It consists of a bunch of wooden gears, a PIC microcontroller and a stepper motor. The heart of the clock is a PIC 16f628A microcontroller. This microcontroller has an internal oscillator however an external 20MHz crystal oscillator is being used since it will have to accurately keep track of time for weeks and months. The microcontroller is interfaced to two
Our friend Gio from DIY Audio Projects has sent in a cool Push-Pull Tube Amp Build. This tube amp fits into a 8 X 12 inch chassis and looks fantastic! Now if only we could find a drugstore with a tube tester. With cool equipment like this and tube TV troubleshooting guides popping up there is sure to be demand for tube testers once again? "The basic design has
A Nerdkit microcontroller is used in this Capacitive Touch Sensor Halloween Pumpkin for some great effects! Full details are provided so that you can add this cool effect to your own projects. The sensor components are just aluminum foil which is great since you probably have some in your kitchen cupboard. Thanks Humberto. "Capacitive proximity sensors work because people are mostly water, and water is a very polar molecule,
This GPS Hunt Project is very interesting, the box is electronically locked and the only way to open it (without using the emergency backdoor) is to go to a certain location. It gives lets you know how far from the target location you are each time the button is pressed but you only have 50 presses to figure it out. Thanks for the tip Jim. "Major components 1 Arduino
How to keep a room comfortable before you enter without running a cooling or heating system all the time? That is the problem that was faced here. The solution was to use IR to turn the system on automatically by making a Hacked Air Conditioner Infrared Remote Control. 🙂 Via: Elektronika Thanks Mario. "Here in China, there is no central air, so my office is heated/cooled by a room
Doyle sent in about an interesting product that he makes. It is a Terracotta Pot Candle Heater. He sells the units but also provides all the details for us DIY people to make our own. It consists of nuts and bolts which provide the metal mass along with 3 terracotta pots and a metal base. I haven’t made or used one of these but it seems like it would
