A capacitive discharge welder/cutter for all your lightweight needs
[Radu Motisan] wrote in to share a cool project he has been working on lately, a pulsed microspot welder/cutter. The device is capable of spot welding thin metals such as foils and battery tabs by...
View ArticleVGA message board displays SMS without a computer
[Achu Wilson's] latest creation is a VGA message board which is written to via SMS text messages. This doesn’t sound too interesting at first, until you find out he’s doing this with a microcontroller...
View ArticleEmbedded web server is all about clever formatting
Take a look around here and you’ll find all kinds of embedded web servers. This one doesn’t look all that interesting, especially because it’s just a NIC plugged into a development board. But for us...
View ArticleMotorized skateboard controlled by hand gestures
This rough-looking contraption is a hand gesture controlled skateboard which [Aditya] built using parts on hand. So far the sensor for hand gestures is connected by a control wire, but he hopes to...
View ArticleThe Most Minimal Homebrew Computer
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to fail. Going by that metric, [Stian]‘s three-chip 6502 homebrew computer is the epitome of perfection....
View ArticleATMega16 Hard Disk Clock
[Martin Stromer] made this great looking Hard Disk Clock about 12 years ago, and finally decided to share it with the world. It’s been “ticking” ever since. It’s a beautiful clock, and if you think...
View ArticleReview: Unnamed Chinese DDS Function Generator
Best forgotten: my awful 2018 function generator. A lifetime of amassing random pieces of test equipment has left me with a gap in my armoury, namely that I don’t possess a low frequency function...
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