MORE LIGHTS FOR YOUR provides

Lights on the tree? Check. provides under the tree? Check. Lights in the presents? Why not! If your gifts don’t look joyful sufficient as well as you have a spare inductive charging system lying around the house—though, you might always develop your own from scratch—you can brighten things up by installing a few LEDs in the […]

WATER HEATER CONTROLLER AUTOMATES GARAGE DOORS

The black box mounted between two garage doors is actually a water heater controller. The entire assembly is a conglomeration of hacks which [Simon] added to his garage over the last four years. We’ll give you a quick rundown, but the entire story is told in his blog post. Back when the house was built [Simon] […]

A MIDI HARMONICA

MIDI, or Musical Instrument Digital Interface, has been the conventional for computer control of musical instruments since the 1980s. It is most typically associated with electronic instruments such as synthesisers, drum machines, or samplers, but there is nothing to stop it being applied to almost any instrument when combined with the appropriate hardware. [phearl3ss1] pushes this to the limit […]

FUBARINO CONTEST: HACKADAY IN YOUR SOLDERING IRON

Besides a coffee pot, the most crucial tool on the electronic tinkerer’s workbench is the soldering iron. Surprisingly, though, we haven’t seen lots of people build their own soldering stations. [Pjkim] did, and went so far as to include an easter egg for our Fubarino contest. A few years ago, [Pjkim] received a complimentary Soldering […]