Jeri Ellsworth who is well known for her C-One creation has been working on some crazy projects over at FatMan and Circuit Girl! Hack a Day featured the Floppy Disk Audio Recorder which is a thing of beauty. It can record about a 1/2 second on each track and uses the internal sensor to automatically move the head to the next track after every disk rotation. See that video
I love these little remote controls, this is the same one that I used in the Atari 2600 TV Remote project. Sure with one of these devices you can take control of a TV but the problem is that you are standing there when you do it. With this Automatic Spy TV Remote you can hide the device and have it automatically drive people nuts. It will randomly turn
We recently featured some of the new hard drive clocks along with some links to some other designs. Turns out we missed one. AP Digital Light created a Hard Drive Clock which is truly a work of art. It uses a PIC18F2320 Microcontroller and a real time clock module from Spark Fun to keep things in sync. The result of his toner transfer method of board etching is about
Matthias Wandel came up with a wonderful solution to making accurate cuts on his table saw. Best of all this system was built from scrap parts from a junk bin. Watch the video to see this cool machine in action. Make sure you check out the rest of his wood working tips, tricks and projects here. "Going through my junk bin, I found a circuit board with 11 power
You may remember the CNC Hexapod Robot that was featured last year. This Robotic Drawing Car doesn’t carve its work but it rather uses a pen to draw. The brain is based on the At mega 16 microcontroller. A schematic and code is available on the site. Engligh translated project.
When you are making DIY printed circuit boards, one of the popular methods requires UV exposure. Many systems use lamps that can give off lots of heat and be expensive to replace. Djhamer has provided plans to make a UV LED system that is double sided so that you can expose double sided PDBs without having to flip and repeat half way through the process. "A UV exposure box
This project turns a old VHS Tape into a USB storage drive. It looks like a normal VHS cassette tape except for the USB cable that sticks out of the shell. All of the project guts are hiding in the areas around the clear windows so that when you have a quick look at the front of the tape all seems normal. When plugged into a computer the VHS
