I don’t own a telescope, but if I did, having a way to capture and share the images I was looking at would be fun to do. This Webcam Astrocam is a DIY Telescope Camera that could be built quite inexpensively. “Here’s one of the many ways a webcam can be converted to a camera for a telescope. This is kind of an old mod but it shows pretty
I am not sure how legal these break light and tail light hacks are but they sure look great. Check with your local police department before installing this type of equipment, or install a switch to go from stock to cool. Link “My 98 Mitsubishi Eclipse LED taillight conversion with 7-segment sequential turn signals and sequential brake lights. All custom built.” Link Sequential tail lights on an Impala.
Nonentity has completed an interesting Home Made Practice Amp project. As usual there is a good compliment of high quality pictures on his site. The wood work on this is breathtaking! “The wood is a fine piece of quilted Maple, with several coats of High Gloss Tung oil. I got the speaker grille cloth from the ol Internet. The bottom case cover is the back of an old Harddrive. The
Click To Play Phil Torrone from Make Magazine and Limor Fried from Adafruit Industries presented a fantastic keynote at OSCON (O’Reilly Open Source Convention). The video is about an hour long but it is worth it. Here are some links to a few item mentioned. RepRap – 3D Printer WRT54G – Linksys Router Chumby Botanicalls Open Prosthetics Project Arduino Roomba Make Store “Open source hardware is a term slowly
Jerome Demers from Quebec has put together a great article. If you are looking to get into robot building this Robot Building Instructable could be a step in the right direction. The parts could be scrounged up for free from things you have laying around or they can be purchased inexpensively.
If you ever wanted to do some laser engraving, this project might be of some interest to you. The circuit is basically a variable voltage regulator that is powering a high power laser. I would highly recommend laser goggles when experimenting with devices like this. “This laser will immediately BURN AND CUT anything you put in front of it faster than a hot knife through soft butter. And, a laser
Diodes can be used for temperature sensing. Nick Chernyy used this principle to make a Diode based Fan Controller for his Shuttle PC. “Figuring that I should just go build a more substantial fan controller myself, I promptly went to the lab to look for a thermistor. Unable to find one, I settled for the next best thing: a diode. After building the circuit, I tested the output with a
