Blondihacks

Breathing new life into (not-so-)old crap.   You know, I feel like I could write a whole other blog entitled Making Crap Last a Little

Revisiting my PCB Etching.   I’ve had a number of requests to revisit my old PCB etching technique and update it with things I’ve learned since

A failed(?) experiment in wifi on an ATTiny.   This is a quick sidebar away from Veronica for a moment. That project is very popular, and

A 16 bit hexadecimal display module.   This is part 3 of a three-part series. You can find part 1 here, and part 2 here.

A 16 bit hexadecimal display module.   This is part 2 of a 3-part series on the HexOut module. Check out Part 1 first! If

A 16-bit hexadecimal display module.   I’ve been wanting to take on more advanced digital design projects. I also like making multi-purpose tools and modules.

Adapting the old to the new   Sometimes the simplest hacks are the most useful. My beloved ten-year-old Pioneer 502MX plasma television died recently. It

A breadboard programming header for AVR microcontrollers   I’ve been working with AVRs quite a bit lately, and I wanted a quick way to program

An automatic stint timer for endurance racing My crazy friends and I regularly compete in something called The 24 Hours Of LeMons. It’s a somewhat

Building Adafruit’s AVR Programmer kit   I needed a quick and dirty ISP programmer for a project that was on a very tight deadline. Adafruit’s

Revision B of the Dish-O-Tron 6000   Making something work on the bench, and making it work in the real world are often very different

Getting magic smoke into your breadboard with style.   I have a basic low-end benchtop supply. It does the job just fine, but is a

A simple and easy way to make precise PCBs   UPDATE: There’s a new and much more detailed version of this article here. This is

Repair and improvement of a broken salad spinner. This is another classic case of an otherwise well made product ruined by a single fatal flaw.

A mint tin that gets angry when his mints are taken!   I was thinking about video game controllers, and what fun parts there are

A cheap source of AAAA batteries   The little-known AAAA battery can be very useful indeed. It’s very small, and thus can be crammed into

A device to detect when the dishes in the dishwasher are clean or dirty I’m absentminded in general, but especially so when it comes to

A heart-shaped pendant with a life of its own   While reading through Charles Platt’s excellent book Make: Electronics, I came across this nice little circuit for

A two-camera video recording system I built for my Lotus Elise   My goal for this system was to build something that would help me

A themed novelty horn for a 24 Hours of LeMons race car.   Let’s say your race car needs a horn. Now say that car

Replacing the “non-replaceable” battery in a Phillips SonicCare™ toothbrush   Don’t you hate it when a $140 gadget is rendered useless by the failure of