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How To Build Your First Robot - The BeetleBot v2
The BeetleBot is a small simple robot that is a great project for getting started in robotics. It uses no electronics component to avoid obsticals, instead it uses two SPDT switches to avoid objects by reversing the opposite motor to free itself.
The parts list is pretty simple which will allow you to build this without [...]
Build A Clock Using Analog Meters
I found an interesting blog post about how someone built a clock using three analog meters to show the time, one for hours, one for minutes, and one for seconds. He designs the circuit and uses a PIC microcontroller to control the clock. Although the code isn’t posted, it’s a great article and a really [...]
How To Make an RGB Combination Door Lock
Adding a custom built electronic lock somewhere in your living quarters can be viewed as a geek’s right of passage. The team over at Hack A Day decided to take this one step further and ditch the boring number keypad and replace it with a custom RGB backlit keypad.
Instead of typing numbers in to unlock [...]
25 Skills Every Man Should Know
Popular Mechanics has picked out the most important entries from the book of man-knowledge and compiled them into this great guide for us. Now this isn’t geek specific, but every now and then we might need to build a campfire or something manly like that, and armed with this information you will have no problem.
This [...]
Beginners Guide to Soldering
One of the most important skills for a Do It Yourselfer is the ability to solder, especially for geeks. Many of the guides posted on this site will assume that you have basic soldering skills, but for those of you who have never touched a soldering iron, here is a a great guide to help [...]
