moderately sturdy vise base
Category: making
ongoing Quad electrostatic speaker repair
A good friend of mine Don kindly donated me these old beauties. Quad ESL-63 electrostatic speakers. Ive heard his and they sound incredible. Getting them serviced is a bit of an ordeal though. each speaker contains 4 electrostatic panels, each …
concept tabletop global data visualisation
The idea was to create an executive desktop tool/ toy for passively visualising geotagged metrics ie: GDP per capita. Presented as a translucent modern embossed globe with an array of rgb leds illuminating each region. It would contain its own …
Half the tale of a near space sojourn
And that was that… We received 3 updates via the spot tracking site. oddly the wind must have rotated 90 degrees from our calculations, which leading up to the launch consistently had the balloon traveling east. ours went south …
3d printing : mendelMax
A couple of years ago i decided it was time to get on board the whole 3d printing bandwagon. It appeared to have matured beyond the nasty little threaded rod prusa / mendel designs and hopefully the software had matured …
“Flashlight” for the blind
My grandfather was almost completely blind, so i rigged up this little device for him. The goal was to detect obstacles out to about 3 meters, and warn him as he approached them. I simply put a phone vibrator (he was …
5V voltage regulation
Just a sketchy little circuit for powering various electronic devices, its probably cheaper / lighter / simpler ( read: more intelligent ) to just buy surface mounted dc | dc power regulators online. but its fun to build the components …
Weather center
simple little breadboard project combining a bunch of sensors with a raspberry pi and graphing the results. The the sensors pictured are the bmp085 barometric pressure sensor and the HIH-6130 humidity sensor, both from sparkfun. Ive since figured out …
Elaborate Pulley System
We needed to clear some space in our apartment. So it was time to start rigging our less regularly used stuff from the ceiling: A little light rope whipping and splicing and we were good to go. …