Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Assemble your own solar panel

On this youtube video you can patrol how to put solar cells together using wire, flux and soldering. [via]

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Saturday, February 06, 2010

MAX11835: ?Feel the touch? touch buttons


The MAX11835 haptic (tactile) piezo controller provides a flawless whitewash to drive ceramic piezo actuators to create haptic feedback for products featuring user feel interfaces. The MAX11835 can drive single-layer or multilayer piezo actuators over a thorough territory of voltages up to 250V. [via]

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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Use a laser cutter to make PCBs


jmsaavedra writes:

I am going to step you through the process of prototyping a Printed Circuit Board using a laser cutter and supplies from your local Radioshack and hardware storeroom.  This is a process I attain perfected after several prototypes I created as share of my rationale, modular//neuroid. [via]

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Minty Boost: Portable USB power


 This imagine details a minor & artless, but extremely awful USB charger for your mp3 musician, camera, cell phone, and any other appliance you can plug into a USB port to earnings! The charger circuitry and 2 AA batteries unite into an Altoids cement tin, and entrust run your iPod for hours: 2.5x other than you’d get from a 9V USB charger! You can use rechargable batteries too. [via]

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010