Electronic Hacks

CATaLOG - RFID Cat Tracking Project

  The world is a big place and we often see similar projects come up. This RFID Cat Tracking Project called CATaLOG (get it 🙂 ) is very similar to the RFID cat tracking project that we saw recently. You can now track real time activities of two households of cats on the internet using Twitter! To see the Twitter results for Bobbin and Tuffin go here, for the simply

DIY ATmega8 Data Acquisition System

  Recording live data is something that you could use very often but most of the time we live to learn without it. What is the temperature in your attic over the day or what about the pool? Is the heat sink temperature acting as you thought it would even after operating for many hours? This ATmega8 Data Acquisition System is a powerful system that can do all of that.

CNC Sewing Machine

  Does your wife not care about your electronic and computer hobby? While she isn’t looking borrow her sewing machine and connect it to your CNC machine to impress her with patterns that she only wishes she could pull off! I wonder if jinghamjr ever gave the sewing machine back?  

Stepper Motor Controller from used Computer Equipment

  We all need some inspiration from time to time. Andrew is a 13 year old from Canada who is doing some electronic experimenting. He built this stepper motor controller and single axis CNC machine from recycled parts from old computer equipment. Looks like he loves hot glue as much as I do. 🙂 All he needs now is a few more scanners to make his single axis CNC machine

BrewTroller - Brewing Control System

  About 5 years ago I bought all the equipment to make some home-brew beer, I purchased a few different flavors of beer kits and went to work. Only one batch was drinkable, but it wasn’t that good and eventually found its way into the sink. After further reading it seemed that temperature control of the brew stages is key to achieving a good result. BrewTroller is an open source

Laser Sundial Clock Project

  Alessandro from 5Volt.eu has made this real simple and cool clock . The Laser Sundial Clock Project uses a Atmel microcontroller to move a servo with a line laser connected to it. The result is a single line that can simply represent the time on the wall. "This is a simple project of a sundial wherein the pinion is replaced by a line LASER I took from a LASER