Shapelock is a plastic that is made moldable with only hot water and is perfect for all kinds of do-it-yourself projects.
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Category Archives: Electronics
Home-built Futurama pinball machine
Pinball is great. Futurama is great. Home-built projects are great. Combine all three and you get a really cool result!
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Homebrew microcontroller based hard drive LED bar graph
This is a PIC microcontroller project I did some time ago which turns my computer’s hard drive LED into a more interesting 10 LED bargraph display.
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Old school relay computer
Harry Porter built a functional computer out of relays — including memory, ALU, registers, and all.
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Gumstix – pre-built microcontrollers with many options
These microcontroller boards have options for wireless ethernet, wired ethernet, USB, and other goodies for semi-reasonable prices (as far as embedding in projects).
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