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Bench power supplies can sometimes be frustratingly expensive and also kind of limited. If you’re enterprising and creative, though, you can create your own bench supply with tons of features, …read more Continue reading Turning an ATX PSU Into a Variable Bench Supply
Watching an eclipse from the ground is pretty fun. Depending on where you live, you might even get a decent view. But what if you wanted a truly unique vantage …read more Continue reading Filming The Eclipse From 80,000 Feet
[Jens] wanted a subscriber counter for his YouTube channel. He could have gone with a simple OLED, LCD, or LED display, but he wanted something more tactile and interesting. So …read more Continue reading Mechanical 7-Segment Display Looks Clean
Some might consider a broken ribbon cable to be unsalvagable. They’re delicate and fragile as can be, and sometimes just fussing with them further is enough to cause additional damage. …read more Continue reading Ribbon Cable Repair Saves Touch ID
If you use home automation these days, you’re probably used to using smart speakers, your smartphone, or those tabletop touchscreen devices. If you wanted something cooler and more personal, you …read more Continue reading Home Automation Terminal Has Great Post-Apocalyptic Look
Decently useful AI has been around for a little while now, and robotic arms have been around much longer. Yet somehow, we don’t have little robot helpers on our desks …read more Continue reading Tabletop Handybot is Handy, And Powered By AI
Helicopters are perhaps at their coolest when they’re being used as flying cranes — from a long dangling cable, they can carry everything from cars, to crates, to giant hanging …read more Continue reading Peeking Underground With Giant Flying Antennas
Stringing a badminton racquet is a somewhat complicated job. It needs to be done well if the racquet is to perform well and the player is to succeed. To that …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Helps Restring Badminton Rackets
You can get a red laser diode pretty cheap these days—as cheap as £1 in fact. [Beamer] had purchased one himself, but quickly grew bored with just pointing it at …read more Continue reading Trying to Build A Communications Device With a 1-Pound Laser And a 7805
The Etch-a-Sketch was a great toy if you were somehow born with the talent to use it. For the rest of us, it was a frustrating red brick filled with …read more Continue reading Etch-A-Sketch Camera is Open Source