DIY Hacks

Screen Printing PCB Manufacturing

  Here is an example of  Screen Printing PCB Manufacturing. It is very time consuming but your PCB factory could make screen printed t-shirts on the weekends. 🙂 It looks like they are setup for medium volume but it looks very time consuming compared to modern PCB manufacturing.

Data from Arduino sent to the Net using an Android Phone

  Kerimil sent in a method that he is using to get data out of his Arduino projects to the net using an Android phone in the middle. He demonstrates how he wrote the program on the Android using MIT App Inventor. The initial GUI reminds me of the Visual Studio environment where you can drag and drop elements such as check boxes and buttons but the language looks very

Cardboard Cube Lamp

  This Cardboard Cube Lamp looks like a fun project. Make sure your light source is not very hot though! This can be made using an exacto knife but I am thinking that you could make some great looking shapes that would be easily repeatable with a laser machine and some scrap cardboard boxes.  

RGB Pixel Clock

     These RGB Pixels look like they are fun to work with since they are so versatile. Tobias Floery is having some fun building an RGB Pixel Clock using a string of them. You can see the 3 parts of the project linked to below. Tobias is using a real time clock connected to an Arduino to keep accurate time, he found a good library for controlling the LED

Valve Headphone Amplifier based on the ECC88

  If you are one of the people that think tube audio is superior to modern audio amplifiers you might want to have a look at this Valve Headphone Amplifier based on the ECC88. The ECC88 looks to be an inexpensive tube that can be used for a variety of purposes. One thing to note with this design is that there is high voltages present in the circuit so please

Hershey Kisses Dispensing Robot

     This Hershey Kisses Dispensing Robot that duboisvb built will let you catch James Woods! This cute robot uses a Picaxe microcontroller project board and is programmed to drive in a heart pattern and drop kisses along the way.  A few gear motors are used to let the robot drive the pattern and a small servo is used to control the candy drop. A simple coaster wheel is used

Secret Room Behind Bookcase

    This is a great looking hidden room. It was totally designed and built using the DIY method right from the heavy duty Home Depot casters that were cut apart to make some big swivels to the door latches that hold the book case in place. The only thing I would change is the method that is used to unlock it. Currently you pull on a cable that is