 With some wood, string, a motor and a few various hardware parts you can build a Home Made Inexpensive Motorized Camera Slider. This will let you get some of the cool shots that you see in the movies and will give your product shots the added touch to make them rise above the rest! Daniel Colvin just built this and documented it so that everyone can make one.
Randy Sarafan, the Technology Editor at Instructables built this programmable car platform by taking an off the shelf RC Car and swapped its brains with an Arduino. This allows the new car to have sensor capabilities and programmability. Randy installed a PING ultrasonic sensor in the front of the vehicle so that it can avoid running into objects but the possibilities are endless now that you can write code
Youtube has finally come up with a way to watch videos off line. If you have some spare room in the garage you might as well subscribe to the Youtube Collection on DVD!
Curious Inventor shows us how to make a small batch of SMD PCBs. The video demonstrates how to use a vacuum pencil to hand place SMD components onto a PCB that has been prepared with squeegeed on solder paste. The board is then reflowed in a toaster oven keeping an eye on the temperature profile of the solder paste and the components.
 Yahoo, this is the 200th name the thing contest, thanks to everyone who participates each week! The Debug Store will be sponsoring the contest this week with a great prize. They are providing a 16 Channel, 100MHz Logic/Protocol Analyser with 30 Protocol Decoders to the winner. This analyser can save you a ton of frustration on your projects by letting you see what is actually happening, and with
You can spend thousands on high end record players, they look very exotic when compared to the typical plain box type record player. Nandor Szabo from Hungary created this Record Player by starting with a Dual 701 as the guts of the unit. The new housing was built using hand power tools and some creativity. I particularly like the use of ends of the mousse containers as the dramatic
Remember the first Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction? John Austin is back at it with a new version of the book called Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction 2 – Build a Secret Agent Arsenal. This book boasts over 250 pages of fun builds. The projects are well laid out as usual, there are lots of great step by step projects with nice black and white pictures. The pictures remind
