Repairing most electronics these days is pointless unless you are doing it for fun. Take an answering machine for example. You can purchase a new one for $10 but to find a fault in a dead one you could spend days of your spare time. If you have schematics and the manufactures support it can be quick and easy though, I did a short stint as a PCB repair tech
The Department of Homeland Security has something they call the Threat Advisories, these come in 5 levels. Turns out some people would like to have one of these hanging on their wall so that they can crank up the threat level when they want to. Michal Zalewski thought it would be a good idea to make a display of his own, the display uses the same concept as the Word
This has to be one of the nicest Word Clocks I have seen yet. I am thinking I have to add this to my long list of project ideas! This one is in Polish but changing languages in this design is simple. The lines at the bottom are used to indicate minutes. So that this clock is not only cool but accurate.
Many of us use transistors everyday but don’t take the time to think about how the magic works. Bill Hammack explains how a replica of the first transistor works. “Bill uses a replica of the point contact transistor built by Walter Brattain and John Bardeen at Bell Labs. On December 23, 1947 they used this device to amplify the output of a microphone and thus started the microelectronics revolution that
With games needing more and more movement room you are forced to stand further away from the TV screen. This is most evident with the new XBox Kinect. Alex Uslontsev had this problem when he got a Kinect but his 37 inch screen wasn’t up to the task of making game play immersive. His solution was to build a cool 110 inch big screen on a budget. “I got myself
iFixit has taken apart one of the coolest toys I have ever seen. The Parrot AR.Drone you can see by the electronics inside that this is no ordinary toy. I am thinking that the guts of this system could be used to fly the SkyFly. Nice thing about the AR Drone is that it is made to be used, broken and repaired. This is one piece of gear that will
Triuky left a comment about his DIY Circuit Board UV Exposure Box with Timer in the comment section of this DIY UV LED Double Sided PCB Exposure Box he us using some small UV florescent tubes similar to the ones that I used when making my UV PCB exposure system. Instead of purchasing a tube with ballast he cracked open a few screw in florescent fixtures and used the small
