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How did I Join the Uprising
Updated: 01/12/2015. New version of this project you can see here .In March 2013 letter from Make magazine there was summary: why people are concerned with DIY. Among reasons economy was mentioned:...
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Competition in Uselessness
It is believed that the idea of the Useless Machine was first formulated by Marvin Minsky and implemented by Claude Shannon more than half a century ago. Nowadays this concept is quite a popular one...
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Atmel Microcontroller Plays the Tic-Tac-Toe Game
A couple of years ago I made an electronic Tic-Tac-Toe game with Pololu baby Orangutan controller as the central component. Pololu is an excellent device but for Tic-Tac-Toe game it was an overkill....
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Wall Clock with Atmel Microcontroller
Time measuring devices always look special to me. I admire the royal nobility of a tower clock,the steady pace of a pendulum mechanism, the instant obedience of a stop watch. Eventually I decided to...
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From the Garage to the Kitchen
People use pegboards as garage tool organizers. This is well-known fact. Sometimes pegboards are used inside kitchen to arrange cooking spoons, knifes etc. This is not so well-known but still an old...
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Useless Machines, Atmel Controllers & Protothreads
This is the project I made in 2010 as a response to the publication about useless machines in Make Magazine1. In overall excellent article there was one statement which looked controversial to me....
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Business Card Holder with $805 Price Tag
No, I did not pay that many for this cardholder. I am not even sure I ever will pay $5 for any cardholder. I got mine completely free. It was taken out of computer, which was prepared to be utilized...
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Computer Desk Hutch with Sit or Stand Option
This project is a remake of the DIY project "Sit-n-Stand monitor station" described in the my old post: How did I join the Uprising. Recently my family moved into the new house and a lot of old stuff...
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Not for Insulation Only
Hobbyist and DYI makers very often extend usage of elements and components beyond its usual assignments. I would like to share with you one such a case. Whenever you drill through the wooden or...
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There are two kinds of Windows programs: Windows GUI or Console Application. There could be third case: process, which does not have any visual representation at all and needs to be running in the...
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In the Moonlight
This is the moon simulator with bat silhouette which I made as a decor for this Halloween.The core part of the project is twelve backlight white LED modules ( I bought them from the adafruit). LEDs...
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Rumination of Uselessness
Let us return to the Useless Machine topic one more time.Classical useless machine usually made out of four electrical components, namely:Electrical battery.Gear motor.DPDT switch (usually toggle,...
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Ten Months Apart
This is photo of our front yard how it looks now (picture made on November 8 of 2017).And this is the photo made on January 15 of 2017. As you can see it is quite a transformation. This is the result...
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Keep it Cool!
Last year my 2006 Ford Taurus (~157 000 miles) started to loose some coolant. Mechanic, while performing regular maintenance service, told me it is due to replace water pump. Should I invest ~ 600$ in...
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Corrosion
Here is again my 2006 Ford Taurus (~161000 miles) with new problem. Cabin fan stopped to work at any speed apart of maximal. For me it looked like very strange malfunctioning. While it is not that...
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Through the Soratama Glass
There will be not much text in this post (mostly pictures). I recently acquired new toy: Soratama glass lens attachment. While it is relatively inexpensive (~$50), it provides a way to take...
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Steel and Plywood
I found this HDD rack in an e-waste bin. It supposed to be sent away and eventually destroyed. What was its destination? To be melted in the furnace? Or to end its days in the garbage collector?I feel...
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Lock & Unlock
This post again about Ford Taurus 2006 (as of today ~171000 miles). While officially it is still mine, my son mostly drives it nowadays. On one of his trips (either Berkeley or maybe Oakland), there...
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Power-Up
I paid $3 for this drill at the local garage sale. The battery was dead (as you can expect from several years old NiCd battery) but the motor was OK. I decided to fix it with an external power supply....
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Less than Six Miles Apart
South San Francisco and Daly City are two neighboring cities in the San Francisco Peninsula. They are really close. Driving form one to another should take less than fifteen minutes. But that not how...
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