This interesting DIY IR Light Dimmer project allows you to make your light into a remote controlled dimmable system, best of all it uses one you your existing remote controls. Have a look at the schematic below and notice that there is no low voltage transformer for the microcontroller. The board layout, schematic and microcontroller code is available so that you can build your very own. Thanks Muris "Dimmer
Even if you aren’t a car guy this High Octane Chess Set which is made from Car Parts is sure to put a smile on your face. Instead of dumping the old engine parts into the scrap metal bin where it will fetch a few cents the RevRod crew decided to make one of the heaviest chess sets I have ever seen. Via: DIY LED Chess Set Comments
Vern Graner wrote an interesting article in the latest Nuts and Volts magazine that goes over some pneumatic basics. Best of all he interfaces the pneumatics to some electronics so that us electronic people can understand it. It’s so true that when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. I can think of lots of times that I would think the obvious solution was a
For about $5 you can build your own DIY Fiber Optic Camera Flash Ring. It allows you to extend the camera flash using fiber optic to illuminate your subject from many tiny points of light all around the camera lens. "This is a fibre-optic flash extension for your DSLR’s popup flash. Totally easy! Works great! Durable! Designed specifically for K20D with 100 2.8 DFA lens but adaptable to other
It seems that this ioBridge module is getting quite popular. I haven’t played with one yet but I have already seen a cool iPod Touch controlled shooting range built with it, a toaster that is connected to Twitter, machine to feed your dog a treat through the internet and many more items every month. The video above is a by Pete from WaveJam Technologies, he has used an ioBridge
This small MP3 cube is a masterpiece in prototyping. An engineer from Japan who runs the Electronics Live Mfg (ELM) Website built this interesting concept device. I think some of the modern cell phones and possible some of the newer MP3 players already have this functionality but it is impressive to see one built from scratch. Simply rotate and tap in the direction you want to move within the
Green Power Science has made a simple DIY Hydrogen Generator. The thought was that it would be run from the alternator in your car and the Hydrogen would be pumped into the engine for combustion. I am no expert but I think the energy used to create the gas would be much greater than the energy that would be produced when burning the gas. What would be interesting though
