Collaborate Disseminate
Folks who refurbish and rebuild vans into off-grid campers (especially with the ability to work in them remotely) put a fantastic amount of planning and work into their projects. [Rob] …read more Continue reading Off-Grid Van Build Uses 3D Scanning For Smarter Planning
What’s better than 3D printing a tank chassis with working tracks? How about 3D printing the entire thing, moving parts and all, as a single piece? That’s [3D Honza]’s PiPBOT-1, …read more Continue reading One-Piece Tank Chassis Pushes Print-in-Place To New Heights
[Petteri Aimonen] created an omnidirectional LED safety light to cling to his child’s winter hat in an effort to increase visibility during the dark winter months, but the design is …read more Continue reading LED Driver Circuit For Safety Hat Sucks Single AAA Cell Dry
The Raspberry Pi is the foundation of many IoT camera projects, but enclosures are often something left up to the user. [Mare] found that a serviceable outdoor enclosure could be …read more Continue reading Weatherproof Raspberry Pi Camera Enclosure, In a Pinch
Rotary potentiometers, switches, and encoders all share a basic design: adjustment is done via a shaft onto which a knob is attached, and knobs are sold separately. That doesn’t mean …read more Continue reading Make Your Own Pot and Encoder Knobs, Without Reinventing Them
I’m sure we can all agree that the worst time to find out a magnet is the wrong way around is after glue has been applied. With that in mind, [erick.siders] …read more Continue reading DIY Magnet Handling Tool Puts An End To Placement Errors
[PjotrStrog]’s rugged Pinecil / TS100 storage case is the perfect printable accessory to go with a hacker’s choice of either the Pine64 Pinecil, or the Miniware TS100 soldering irons. There …read more Continue reading Printable Case For Pinecil And TS100 Soldering Irons (Mis)Uses A 608 Bearing
There are a number of ways to efficiently and elegantly limit an LED’s brightness, but [Tommy] found that using a light pipe or diffuser can integrate better with a device, …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Light Pipe Turns Overly-Bright LED Into Design Harmony
There are a lot of IoT solutions and frameworks out there, and [Davide] demonstrates how to make a simple data logging and tracking application with his ESP8266-to-ThingSpeak project, which reads …read more Continue reading NTC Thermistor to ThingSpeak Meter Makes a Great IoT Starter Project
The original Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner led to loads of clones and lookalikes over the years, and one of them is the ALEE mopping “robot”. [Raymond] tears it down and reveals …read more Continue reading Seriously, Don’t Buy This Mopping Robot