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Hacking an industrial sewing machine by adjusting the clutch motor
A few years ago, after my plastic portable machine broke, I bought a Singer 20u73, light industrial sewing machine. I was pretty tired of slow, weak machines with low torque. Going through 4 layers of...
View ArticleHOW TO – Make a cheap “pager scanner”
In this video (m4v) we show you how to take a $10 pager and make “pager scanner” – it can see all the pages and pager data on the pager networks – surprisingly it’s still used for a lot of interesting...
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EARTH DAY – iFixit: The free repair manual #earthday
iFixit: The free repair manual kicks off Earth day with opening up their repair guides to the public & going for the e-cause… Today iFixit is changing repair forever. Today — Earth Day, 2010 — we...
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Desoldering an SMD using a candle
From Rolo’s electronics projects pages: Never do this. I mean it. It is dangerous, it is wrong, you may get hurt, your tools, your stuff or your house may be damaged. I did this because I didn’t have...
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Antique Electronics Autopsy: Knock-Em Out Boxing
EE Times got their hands on a very cool looking old table-top video game and opened it up to see what’s inside. In 1979, the absolute state of the art in virtual boxing was unleashed on the world....
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Brandon Edgar Allen’s Disassembled Game Controller Prints #ArtTuesday
Toronto based photographer Brandon Edgar Allen has made these awesome prints of a bunch of different gaming controllers for a series called Deconstructed. We love the N64 one especially- it really...
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Fischer Price talking chatter smartphone made with Raspberry Pi #piday...
Grant Gibson decided to hack his son’s Chatter Telephone and make it into a smartphone! Awesome project. Check out more details on his site. The Chatter Telephone is a classic Fisher Price toy that...
View ArticleThe Ben Heck Show Builds A Raspberry Pi Camera
Check out this week’s episode of The Ben Heck Show to see Ben break down a Raspberry Pi and build a slim point and shoot camera: Felix built a point and shoot camera using spare parts laying around...
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Inside the new Amazon Dash Button
Amazon’s new Dash Buttons are now available for order by Prime Members. In case you missed it, these new battery-powered, Wifi-enabled “buttons” allow fast, convenient re-ordering of common...
View ArticleCollin’s Lab: Desoldering
Learning to remove a sturdy connection is almost as important as knowing how to make it in the first place. Electronics repairs, modifications, hacking, and salvage all necessitate one important skill...
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Adafruit’s Top 10 Blog Posts of December 2015 #StateOfTheFruit #AdafruitTopTen
Here’s our top viewed posts of December 2015! 1. Smart Apparel is the Future #WearableWednesday 2. Women In Tech Predict Major Change In 2016 #WomenInTech @forbes @leoking11 3. New Official Raspbian...
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Repairing a 42-year-old Calculator
This is a great story of one maker’s quest to repair his Aunt’s 42-year-old Casio FR-2650A, a device she not only used every day for work but which was a family heirloom as well. After 42 years...
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Inside a Counterfeit MagSafe Charger #teardown
I especially love the metal ground pin … umm, “connection” (and other external fake features) along with the ‘just put this here’ heatsink approach. Wow! From the outside, this charger is almost a...
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Get your clicks with Pseudorandom 07: Mice – tonight @ 9:30 ET
Join Collin & Ladyada as they look back at the history of the mouse and tear apart some shiny new mousing hardware. Watch @ 9:30pm ET on YouTube, Twitch, & Facebook.
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Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet & EC-155-0W Mouse Teardown and Reverse Engineer
In this incredibly thorough teardown and reverse engineer video, Micah Elizabeth Scott dissects some Wacom tech, notably this EC-155-x ‘Bamboo Fun’ mouse. Somewhat bewilderingly, the guts of the mouse...
View ArticleExamining, Disassembling, Cleaning, and Oiling a Grandfather Clock
I’m anxious to see part 4 of this series when ToddFun reassembles and sets up the clock again for movement, but in the meantime here are the first 3 parts – shown across 4 lengthy videos – of his...
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Simple or Sophisticated? Teardown of a Cell Phone SIM Card is Revealing!
Great teardown video below by electronupdate of a good ol’ SIM card – you and I likely have one if not more of these in our pockets right this very second! Electronupdate does a great review doing a...
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How to Turn an Old Washer into Useful Hydro Energy #CitizenScience #Energy #DIY
I’m on a quest to learn more about DIY alternative energy, and while last week I investigated wind turbines, this week I decided to look for a decent water turbine. Although not everyone has a stream...
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$5 Scientific Calculator Teardown with IC Die Shot (and Interesting...
Fun teardown video below by electronupdate including a great walkthrough of the calculator’s IC design, and some super-zoom microscopic shots including the one above! Everything that I had questions...
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Adafruit’s Top 10 Blog Posts of December 2016 #StateOfTheFruit #AdafruitTopTen
Here’s our top 10 most popular posts from December 2016! 1. NEW REFERENCE CARD: Soldering 101 2. This Wire Electrical Discharge Machining Animated GIF (and Video) is Mesmerizing! 3. New Project!...
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