Blondihacks

Rescuing a good product from bad customer service.   I’ve been setting up my house for wireless music throughout. The technology I chose is Apple’s

Making another product into what it should have been.   Here’s yet another case of a consumer product that is almost really nice, but falls

A better morning for old feet.   We’re back! Thanks for everyone’s patience with BlondiHacks’ long absence. Moving to the new space has been more

Hey everyone! You may have noticed it has been a little quiet here lately. That’s because Blondihacks Labs has been in the long process of

A timelapse camera in a Tic Tac box.   Among my more questionable life choices is my regular participation (as part of The B-Team) in

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