Down in New Zealand, Jim of Jim’s Page has crafted one of the most ‘home made’ – DIY looking flight sims I’ve ever seen. Interfacing with an Arduino for a variety of IO, and he’s got his own software that communicates it all. Check out his Arduino link, he shows how to use the Arduino MEGA in a… Read More »
When you get a broken ‘not worth fixing’ All-in-One Scanner / Printer / Fax, there is an amazing opportunity within. On the outside, it is a broken office garbage. On the inside, a wealth of supplies for the DIY tinkerer, and you can dispose of the rest in an environmentally friendly way. Came across a broken Canon MP580… Read More »
In 1834, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier discovered that the passage of a current through a junction formed by two dissimilar materials caused a temperature change, Dubbed the “peltier effect”, it was later clarified by Emil Lenz who observed that by passing a current through a bismuth-antimony junction, water could be frozen and that ice could be melted if… Read More »