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THIS GUY BUILT A DIY CABLECAM USING A CHEAP RADIO CONTROLLED CAR

Cablecams are a lot of fun, but they’re not inexpensive, even if you need just something small for your action camera. There are commercial solutions out there, like the Wiral Lite, but they’re pretty expensive for what they are. Perhaps even more so than the camera you’re mounting to it. When Kasper at MAKESOME was asked by his friend

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SparkFun A look inside some common power supplies

SparkFun: A look inside some common power supplies

Introduction Power supplies are everywhere these days. With the advent of switching power supplies, the cost of high-current supplies has radically dropped. Maybe you’ve noticed how the large, heavy, wall-wart style adapters are no longer lurking around your baseboards, falling out of their sockets? Or occupying several of your valuable power-strip positions? But not all

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OLED on the Cheap

OLED on the Cheap!

I like cheap electronics for playing. Cheap is good for budget conscious hobbyists and China is delivering lots of toys for playing – one being the inexpensive “mono” OLED displays.  The single-color displays often come in a dual-color implementation where the top row of pixels are one color and the remaining majority of the lower

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Make a proper PCB exposure unit out of a cheap UV nail curing lamp

Make a proper PCB exposure unit out of a cheap UV nail curing lamp

What do PCB production and fake fingernails have in common? They both use UV light sources of high intensity and, as luck would have it, those light sources have exactly the same wavelength. Only the ones for PCB production are usually quite costly and the ones for fake fingernails are a bit more competitively priced.

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