Roll Your Own 3D Video For Under $300
You’ve gone out and seen Avatar and now your ready to summon your inner Cameron and shoot the next blockbuster 3D movie but you just can’t seem to come up with the millions of dollars needed to purchase the camera gear you would need, fear now more because you too can now create a super-duper [...]
Drill Powered Outboard Motor
This is a ridiculously simple way to create a drill powered outboard motor. Another crafty Instructables user shows us how he uses his cordless drill to power his boat. The drive shaft is a 10 mm wire rod that is connected to a right angle drill which drives a 3-blade propeller.
Drive time might be limited [...]
DIY: USB Geiger Counter
Ever feel the need to check your surroundings for radiation? Me either, but if you ever have then this somewhat complex DIY project is right up your alley.
The geiger counter is a pretty simple device to detect radiations. Many forms of radiations from radio elements (alpha, beta, gamma) can be detected but it is more [...]
DIY: Softbox
A Softbox is used to create soft diffused light by directing light through a white diffusing material. Photographers choose to use a softbox because it help to create a nice soft even light on a given object.
A Softbox can generally run you some serious coin, but with the help of this DIY project you can [...]
DIY: RC Helicopter
Building your own RC helicopter sounds like a hard tasl, but thanks to Ben Hui it’s as simple as building a few parts and following a step-by-step set of instructions.
Flying RC helicopter is really very exhilarating. Their versatility gives a RC pilot a complete access to the three-dimensional space in such a way that no [...]
Neuros OSD – Take 2
We talked about the Neuros OSD earlier this year, well it now looks like the company has decided to mature the project and bring it into the HD age. The OSD2.0, which will be aimed at Linux PVR coders, will have an impressive list of specs.
D1(720×480) H.264 or SVGA (1024×768) MPEG4 + AAC/AC3/MP3 encoding
720P playback, [...]
DIY: Build An HDTV Antenna
Why spend money on purchasing something when you could just build it yourself, like this DIY HDTV antenna with some wood, tin foild, and a coat hanger.
If you don’t want to spend upwards of 70 bucks like I did on a not so great performing Yagi style antenna. Then build this one for almost nothing [...]
DIY: Balancing Robot
Here’s a great project to work on if your just getting into robots. The self-balancing robot doesn’t use any fancy accelerometers or gyroscopes, all you really need is a motor and some gears (with a few additional items you might have around the workshop).
This is a very simple robot that uses a simple switch as [...]
DIY Flamethrower
For the love of God kids, don’t, and I mean don’t try this at home. Everett Bradford has been working on a Pyro like system (just like the one from X-Men) for his final project for a mechanisms class (what ever happened to building volcanos and the such?). This thing looks quite dangerous, but it [...]
Proper Electronic Enclosures
Picking the right enclosure for your next DIY electronics project can be daunting at best. Sparkfun electronics has a great write up about how to go about getting the right case for your project.
They give a great layout of how to get those holes for switches and button just right. They even explain how to [...]
How To Make A Jib
Joren has slapped together a great DIY article for all of you aspiring directors on building your very own low cost jib arm.
“I don’t know if the proper name is jib arm, boom, or crane. Like everything else in the world, there are at least three names for this. The basis for this design is [...]
Clean up cable clutter
How many of us have a cables cluttering up desks, tabletops and nightstands. Below is a video showing a simple and easy way to clean up the cable clutter. I would warn you that almost every powerbrick produces heat so make sure you don’t end up with a neat box that catches fire and burns [...]
How To: Build a Night Vision System
Here’s a great and cheap way to create your own Night Vision system for your video camera. You will need some cellophane and an old digital camera to pull it off, but once you do it’s quite impressive.
How To: Roll your own solar bag
I’m all about making sure that all of my gadgets get the juice they need, whether it be in my car, on a plane, or even on the beach, yes the beach. The guys at Talk2MyShirt have a great two-part piece on how to make your own solar-powered device charging bag. A great thing to [...]
