Archive for the ‘how to’ Category

Dead Ringer Instructable

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Horay!

I’ve wanted to do an instructable for so long so I just did it, it’s not step by step but there it is and here it is:

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the dead ringer head set hack

look at me being all Vana white about it too, oh fun!

DIY Round Up No. 1

Monday, February 25th, 2008

I like how this is sort of a green solution too:


Emergency Cellphone ChargerWatch the best video clips here
I’ve got an old scanner that I might try this with:

Recycled Scanner Hack! – video powered by Metacafe

Cool Tool Holder link

tool holder

I’ll be making my own holder soon cause I’ve been needing a place for all my pliers and small screwdrivers, and I’ve got an extra small board.

Salvaging PCB Parts

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

So I’ve been doing this for a while, ever since I discovered desoldering braid. I found this on Makezine, the Instructable isn’t anything special but the idea of reusing plastic bottles as transparent DIY containers is awesome (and cost saving).  It’s funny, because this week I started collecting wide mouth plastic bottles for organizing larger electronic bits and art supples, I’m gonna screw their lids into a piece of wood and have a hanging organizer . I’ll have simple instructions up soon, once I’ve collected more bottles.  I’ll put it up on Instructables, cause I never do and need to start actually

plastic containers for pcb parts

PID Lie Detector

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

In PID, James had us make this cool lie detector, sadly the site it was from had only a video.

So because I like having diagrams organized and together I added the transistor info as well.

lie detector
source site

I’ll have an image of my finished lie detector soon. Mine seams to function in an odd way so it’s more of a random noise maker, but i think it sounds cool, so that’s the way it’s gonna be.