Posts tagged as diy

DIY Power Injector for Axis 2100 Network Camera, Part I: Investigation

A little while back I bought a couple of used Axis 2100 network cameras, intending to use them at home (driveway cam? front yard cam?) to replace my l...

DIY: DSLR fiber optic ring flash

Having a ring flash in you studio is really helpful when photographing small objects. Unfortunately, ring lights can cost a lot of money. We have see...

How To - DIY ultrasonic rangefinder

Here's a nice recipe for building your own ultrasonic distance sensor - similar to the Parallax Ping, though it requires a bit of software coding to...

How To: DIY quadrature encoder

This might be just the thing for a robotics project cancelled on account of - "expensive". Professor Mason created a quadrature encoder by fitting ...

DIY Parallax Propeller laptop

Alan Parekh, of Hacked Gadgets, write: Using a DVD player screen, a rewired toy keyboard and toy laptop looks like it made a great start to this DI...

DIY mini-mellotron sampling keyboard

Gijs Gieskes' Motor Keys instrument produces some beautiful sounds. Reminiscent of the legendary Mellotron tape sampling keyboard, the project uses...

DIY snowmaking

Brad made a snowcovered slope with his own DIY snowmaking rig. In his set notes, he shares some resources and other links. How is your Snow Geekery...

DIY books using Wikipedia

Wikipedia is offering an interesting feature: compile articles into books, and get it printed by "PediaPress." Alternatively you can get the book as ...

DIY Pipe Organ

I really like the tones this DIY pipe organ is able to produce. I would love to see this adapted to an Arduino or other micro-controller so it could ...

DDIY: Don't do it yourself?

I read recently an article in the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest by Lisa Anne Auerbach called "d.d.i.y. Don't Do It Yourself:" D.I.Y. used to mea...