I made a pair of light up Kanye West glasses for New Years!
Monthly Archives: December 2011
The Ch00f-o-scope
So my father is a cardiologist who is also a geek, so I thought I’d make him something special this year for Christmas.
An iPhone stethoscope!
Something awesome this way comes
In Which I Spent my Weekend Reverse Engineering a Children’s Toy.
Today I decided to take on this bad boy:
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Why you don’t make right-angle traces and why lightning rods are pointy
After I posted the menorah yesterday where I said in passing that you’re not supposed to have circuit traces bend at right angles, I got a few questions from readers asking exactly why this is. The explanation is kind of complicated and involves some of Maxwell’s equations as well as multivariable calculus, but I’ll do my best to explain it in a way that doesn’t require any special knowledge of either of these topics. This is going to be a doozy, so read on if you dare.
A Digital Menorah
You know, the Jews got 1 day’s worth of oil to last 8 days. That’s what I call engineering!
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How to Etch a Two Layer PCB with UV-sensitive Copper Clad
The moment you’ve all been waiting for! My super awesome guide on how to make these