Well, it's been a long time since I've had a chance to play with electronics. This was the last thing I built:

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I somehow managed to lose my Wii sensor bar. I was surprised to find that none of the shops around here sell replacements, since they are composed of nothing more than some plastic and infrared LEDs. Huge markup potential ( Read more... )

I built a variable-voltage power supply using this instructable and I'm already finding it very useful. Here's what mine looks like.

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Hey, everybody! Programming stuff on the computer is great, but pushing pixels around isn't nearly as cool as pushing *real live stuff* around. I've been wanting to get into physical computing for a long time and I finally ordered (and received) an Arduino Duemilanove. Why arduino? Well, they're the same price as an Atmel AVR microcontroller ( Read more... )