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Circuitry Hacks |
 | Build your own mini RC Helicopter
Everyone loves watching and flying RC copters with their speed, agility and acrobatic feats. Using a few mini high speed servos, standard dc motors and a bit of engineering, you can create your very own micro DIY RC helicopter. This outstanding... |
 | Render your Eagle Cad Circuits in 3D
Eagle Cad is a fantastic schematic design program. If you're not familiar with it, be sure to learn how to use Eagle Cad. Once you create your schematic and go through a few simple downloads, you can render your circuits in 3D. Thousands of the... |
 | Arduino Tutorial: An Introductory Guide
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Previously we introduced you to the Arduino and it’s awe-inspiring incredibleness. Now we’ll take you on an in depth plunge with... |
 | Eagle Cad Tutorial: Design your own Circuit Boards
Ahhh...The joy of holding your first beautiful green printed circuit board. A feeling every electronics guru understands. Eagle Cad is a fantastic free PCB design program. The learning curve is a tad steep, but you'll learn quickly with these... |
 | Tutorial: How to Make LED Cubes
The warm ambient glow of the LED Cube's fantastic display of illuminated animation and hours of programming. They're actually easier to create than you may think. We'll show you how in plain English using simple designs and... |
 | Controlling Electronics using your Parallel Port
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Ah,the parallel port...25 pins of circuitry goodness. You can manipulate this port to control peripheral... |
 | DIY Magnetic Strip Card Decoder
Using a magnetic strip reader incorporated with, of course, an Arduino, you can scan what those strips and see the data stored on it. A bit more hacking and you could also write data back onto the card and create duplicates as well. If... |
 | Dirt Simple POV LED Display
In case you don't know, POV (persistence of vision) is the blur you see when you wave an object quickly. In this case, by flashing LEDs at certain times while an object is waved, a message appears in the air. Easily build your own... |
 | Incredible Pro Theremin Players
A theremin is a musical instrument you do not touch. Tones generated by the device are based upon the proximity of your hands in relation to sensors. They're easy to build, but much more difficult to play. Take a look at these fantastic... |
 | Spy Hacks - Make your own Phone Tap
As you begin your career as a secret agent or spy, you'll need to know how to create your own wire tap. It's a pretty simple circuit and it records your conversations to your computer through the free audio editing program, Audacity. Note,... |
