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ESP Wiegand Breakout and RFID Readers
If you need to restrict access to a certain building or room, much of the time you turn to an RFID card system, but what if you wanted to integrate an ESP8266 into your setup? Since most RFID readers,...
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Infrared Cannon Produces a Focused Light Beam
While “Infrared Cannon” might evoke visions of airplanes being melted by some sort of futuristic anti-aircraft artillery, this device comes in peace. Unlike your traditional IR emitter, which scatters...
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Pendant Solder Kits Blink to Show Your Skills
If you’re often engrossed in making interesting projects for your own entertainment, it’s understandable if you forget holidays once in a while. So, to put the word out, Valentine’s day is coming up...
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Kinetic Art: Solar Spinner II
What do you call something that spins when exposed to sunlight or even indoor lighting? A solar spinner of course! While it looks nothing like the spinners that you see people playing with everywhere,...
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Maker Uno – Enhanced Arduino UNO Compatible Board
Arduino boards, and specifically the Arduino Uno, have helped engineers and hackers get started with electronic DIY projects for many years and remain extremely popular. This popularity is due in some...
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Robotic 3D-Printing Filament Dispenser
When 3D-printing an object with a fused deposition machine, your extruder pulls filament through it, melting and depositing it in place to produce a nicely formed part… if everything is set up...
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IV-9 Numitron Tube Clock
You’ve heard of Nixie tubes, and perhaps even have one hanging in your shop or office. While beautiful, they have one major disadvantage in that they require 170+ volts for operation. Numitron tubes,...
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Curved LiPo Battery for Wearables
Batteries: they’re both the thing that makes most modern electronics possible, and a constant challenge. For example: phones need to be plugged in every night, disposable batteries make their way into...
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Assembly Video: MSP430 Nixie Tube Clock Kit
So you want a Nixie tube clock, but they seem too expensive and/or complicated? The good news is that you can buy them fully assembled, or you can get one of these MSP430 kits for under $50. After...
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Seen in the Flea Market: January 2017
It’s been over 2 months since we last explored the the Tindie Flea Market. This is the home overstock and gently used hardware so dig through your inventory and put up a listing for interesting gear...
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Xetal Indoor Infrared Tracking System
You might assume tracking people’s location indoors would require a smart marker, be it a smartphone or something dedicated to the task, or alternatively a computer vision setup, but the Xetal...
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Spacehuhn Blinky Badge!
Spacehuhn is everyone’s favorite WiFi-hacking chicken. The mascot for the originator of the ESP8266 WiFi deauthentication suite has already been featured on its own stickers, which are pretty neat. On...
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OKAY 2 Monophonic Synth Kit
Take a look at Tindie’s thriving sound section and you’ll see there is no shortage of people making their own electronic music. These devices take many forms, and one interesting take on sound...
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Arduino Dot Matrix Printer PCB
Perhaps you’ve never considered making your own huge dot matrix printer, buy you have to admit it looks pretty fun after watching the video below. For a great head start on building your own, start...
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Tiniest Synth Kit Ever?
Have you ever thought, “I’d like to have a synth, but don’t have the room?” If so, then this MicroSynth SMD Kit from Pae Industries is just the thing. As shown in the image above, with its tiny piezo...
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μGame: A Tiny Console That Plays with MicroPython
So you’d like a tiny game console that requires a little assembly to get working? If so then the μGame 10 kit is definitely worth a look. As noted in its listing, the device has no case, has not been...
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4-Axis Arduino GRBL CNC Shield
When you decide to build your own CNC, choosing a controller is a big decision and there are a few different directions you can take. If you can find or modify a PC to output parallel port signals,...
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GPS-Controlled Binary Clock Kit
In theory, most of us know how binary works. The least significant digit is 1, the second is 2, 4, 8 and so on, however numbers like 1001 for 9 and 101 for 5 aren’t easily recognizable without a...
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Here’s Why MIDI is Magic
Since the early eighties, MIDI has dominated the music industry. This standardized control method is now running on over a billion musical devices, in studios and bedrooms throughout the world. The...
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Repairs You Can Print Contest Features Multiple Opportunities to Win $100 in...
Want $100 to spend on Tindie items? While you could take routes such as working overtime, speculating in cryptocurrency, or selling your own goods here, one excellent idea is to enter into Hackaday’s...
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