I've had the Solenoid project working for about a week and a half now, but the rain and lack of sunlight was getting in the way of making a video of everything in action. It worked out well because it gave me the chance to demonstrate the project to a ...

This Solenoid controller has been filled with a ton of small successes. Today I'm chalking up one more success to the list. I've got the XBee portion of the controller working. I had been working on this for a long time now, and the more I work on it the ...

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it. -- Albert Einstein The big issue I was having with the Solenoids was too much pressure. So while on a trip to Sudbury my Stepfather and I redesigned it. Well, I just told him what I was thinking of doing, and he ...

So the guys at the electronics stores are loving me lately. I'm pretty good at destroying things. While electronics is a reasonably affordable hobby, I've managed to turn it into something a little more extreme. So without further adieu, here's my "listo destructo": ATMega168 IC -- I was using a headless ...

If anyone had have told me this project would cost slightly in the range of $300 I would have probably not have started it at all. Individually the components don't cost that much, Arduino -- $60, transistors -- $10 for nine of them, copper connectors -- $2, and so on. ...

This past January I was biking home in the rain when this thought hit me. I was stopped at a red light looking at the pools of water on the ground wondering if it would be possible to calculate the density of rainfall. I thought, even when they're giving weather ...