Posts Tagged ‘cheap’

Interfacing an ISA Ethernet card to a PIC microcontroller

August 24th, 2010

This looks like a promising way to internet-enable your PIC microcontroller projects. ISA Ethernet cards are now obsolete and you can get piles of them from junk electronics stores for next to nothing.

The project implements a simple webserver based on a PIC18F452 microcontroller that plugs to the net through a 3COM 3C509B Ethernet ISA card. Possibilities are endless.

T-Shirt Folding Thingy

August 6th, 2010

It doesn’t get any simpler than this – the perfect t-shirt folding device nade from cardboard:

I’m making one of these today. Well, as soon as I find a cardboard box that’s the right size.

A Cool DIY Radiotelescope

July 22nd, 2010

This is something I’ve always wanted to try – to make my own radiotelescope.  It seems somebody did it already. Very interesting to read and gives a good idea what is doable and what is next to impossible to achieve.

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