DIY Projects

Electronic enthusiasts, hobbyists and makers looking for a USB-C battery charger board for Lithium Ion and Lithium Polymer batteries, will be pleased to know that one is now available from the Adafruit online store. Battery charging boards are great for battery-powered projects and allow you to … [Read more...] about USB-C battery charger board for Lithium Ion and Lithium Polymer batteries

Using parts from Blu-ray players combined with a few 3D printed components Instructables member “ Noselace” has created a fantastic miniature microscope and 3D scanner which can be seen in action in the video below. The miniature microscope has been aptly named the LadyBug and has been built to take … [Read more...] about LadyBug miniature microscope and 3D scanner

Instructables member Patrick Panikulam has created a versatile wireless Arduino pen plotter and laser engraver, powered by an Arduino UNO microcontroller and offering a work area of 200 x 162 mm and using a 1000 mW laser module which is run using a 5v USB power source. Panikulam has kindly made … [Read more...] about Arduino pen plotter and laser engraver

Sailors interested in building their very own computer-controlled chart plotter using the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC may be interested in a project created earlier this year by James Conger, which has been featured this week on the official Raspberry Pi Foundation website. The Raspberry Pi chart … [Read more...] about Open source Raspberry Pi chart plotter project for sailors

Using a Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless mini PC Hackster.io member Jen Fox has created a wearable Raspberry Pi impact force monitor to help keep your "very important brain and body safe" says Fox. The project is classed as an intermediate build and will take approximately two hours to complete and … [Read more...] about Raspberry Pi impact force monitoring system

If you are interested in building your very own Raspberry Pi smart mirror complete with optional Amazon Alexa integration you may be interested in this smart mirror project published to the Hackster.io website a little time ago. The project is classed as an intermediate level build and should take … [Read more...] about Raspberry Pi Smart Mirror with Alexa support

 A prototype oxygen rebreather has been designed, created and published by AYLO providing an insight into how a rebreather functions and how you can create one of your very own to explore beneath the waves. “The type of rebreather I built is the oldest and simplest type- an oxygen rebreather. As … [Read more...] about Awesome oxygen rebreather allows you to explore under the waves

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking for a mini laptop project to keep them busy next weekend may be interested in this new pocket laptop created by the Creativity Buzz YouTube channel. This project provides insight into how you can create your very own Raspberry Pi laptop using a TP4056 Module and … [Read more...] about Raspberry Pi mini laptop project

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts or electronic hobbyists looking to build an affordable pen plotter may be interested in the BrachioGraph. An easy-to-build pen-plotter, driven by a library of simple Python applications. This project is perfect for those who enjoy DIY electronics and want to explore the … [Read more...] about BrachioGraph Raspberry Pi pen plotter

A new Raspberry Pi project has been published to the Hackster.io website this week, providing detailed instructions on how you can create your very own Raspberry Pi Zero W video streaming camera complete with a battery pack. Using the official Raspberry Pi camera module and the smaller Raspberry Pi … [Read more...] about Raspberry Pi Zero streaming video camera

Adafruit has announced the availability of its new Audio Adapter Board for Teensy 4.0 priced at $15.95, offering an easy way to add high quality 16 bit, 44.1 kHz sample rate (CD quality) audio to your projects with Teensy 4.0 (Rev D). The board measures just 38.0mm x 36.8mm x 6.7mm in size and … [Read more...] about Audio adapter board for Teensy 4.0 now available from Adafruit