TinyCopter AVR Game

Here’s a tiny project for you to do over summer break! It’s called TinyCopter and it uses an Attiny13 Miccrocontroller and a Nokia3310 LCD for the game screen.

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Hot Air Tool

Soldering irons are the primary tool used for soldering, and we use ours all the time for soldering. But for leadless parts, like QFNs, or ultra-tiny components that need rework, hot air can be superior!

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Bluetooth Headset Garage Door Opener

Use a $1 transistor from Radio Shack to convert a Bluetooth Headset into a secure Garage Door Opener. DIY for under $20 and in under 20 minutes.

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Aurora 9×18

Powered by the PIC24F08KA101 microcontroller with over 160 LEDs that are controlled in 9 groups of 18 each. Each group of LEDs are forming a circle and each RGB component is controlled by PWM, with effective resolution of about 13 bits. It’s amazing to watch the color transitions. Read more to watch more!

This is one of the many color sequences this unit can produce.

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EDWARD - Electric Diwheel With Active Rotation Damping

This honours project involved the construction of a human operated diwheel. Many diwheels in the past have been human powered or powered by IC engines. This one is purely electric. It has additional functionality lacking in other models, including inbuilt dynamic lateral stability and slosh control to prevent “gerbiling” or tumbling in aggressive braking or acceleration maneuvers.

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DIY Park Ranger by Amani64

The Park Ranger is an ultrasonic-ranging prototype designed to assist drivers who are backing into tight areas.  The ranger uses ultrasonic pings to measure distance to the object behind and indicates this distance by sending audible tones to your FM radio.  Optional panel-mount LEDs offer visual aid for calibration as well as warning drivers behind you.

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MP3 Input for Your Car Stereo

Those who don’t have an MP3 input for your car stereo, we found a project that shows you how to make your own!

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Endeavour’s Last Launch is Perfect!

Endeavour successfully launched today from the Kennedy Space Center at approximately 8:56 am eastern for its 25th and final mission. Mission STS-134 headed by Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Gregory H. Johnson and Mission Specialists Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, will last 16 days.

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DIY Gieger Counter

Here’s a little DIY project that we hope you never have to use, but with recent events in Japan you never know when one just might come in hand.

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DIY Arduino Earthquake Predictor

Bob Davis is back! With his upgraded DIY Earthquake Predictor using the Arduino and some hall effect sensors, Bob hopes to get better results predicting Earthquakes. Here’s a clip of Bob explaining how it works:

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