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Make Beautiful Solder Joints: 4 Steps (with Pictures) Now, the trimmed joint may be flat, but it's not pretty until you briefly reheat it and introduce just a touch of solder.

Make Beautiful Solder Joints: 4 Steps (with Pictures)

Poke your iron back into the joint just long enough to see the solder liquify, then add just the smallest amount of new solder back into it and pull your iron away. This will take some practice to not go overboard with the solder or leave your iron in too long. Ideally, what your left with is a smooth, shiny dome of solder that reminds me of a mini upholstery tack. My guess is that it has something to do with the surface tension created by adding new solder and the lack of any central element for it to gather around.

When you do this across every solder point on a board, the cumulative effect looks really sharp. That said, pulling off this trick essentially means soldering every connection twice. How to Remove a Screw, Bolt Without Any Tools - Tool Hacks - All. Welcome to fixitsamo channel!

How to Remove a Screw, Bolt Without Any Tools - Tool Hacks - All

Mix of original & cool videos: Life-Hacks, Cooking, Science experiments, DIY, Crafting, Mechanics & much more! Always happy to hear from you! Your comments, shares and all other interactions are very welcome.Thanks for watching! More Videos Here : How to Make a Mini Dremel Tool - All. Add metal threads to your 3D prints - make them functional! Portable Workshop. A Portable Workshop for those of you that don't have much space or a compact cabinet you can carry all your stuff to work in other locations.

Portable Workshop

I wanted it to keep it as small as possible for those of you that don't have much space or your car and tools share the same place. It has wheels so it can be moved by only one person and you can even carry it in your car with a little help to get it in, of course. As you can see it has 3 functions. Saw table, Router and Scroll Saw. 3D Environment Laser Scanner from scratch. Hello and welcome to my first instructable!

3D Environment Laser Scanner from scratch

Here we will go together through the affordable journey of how to make your very own 3D Laser Scanner. If you like this project, then I'd be super grateful for your vote in the Full Spectrum Laser contest!! There are a few (very good) 3D scanner tutorials on here already, but this one is a bit different for two reasons: No pre-made 3D scanning software was used. Everything in this is done using Arduino and Processing. Diy Arduino Laser Engraver. 3D printed Brother. Super Light Quadcopter. The aim of this project is to maximize the flight time/ battery life of the very famous Hubsan X4 quad-copter.

Super Light Quadcopter

This will show how you build your own for very low cost, simple to build and fun to play with. The 3D print is 100% designed by me for use with spare parts from the Hubsan H107L model. It consists of a chassis that fit a receiver, four 7x20mm motors, four 3mm LED´s and a clip to hold the battery. The weight of this chassis is only 4.18g plus battery clip 0.49g.

The whole quadcopter including chassis, clip, LED's, motors, propellers and receiver is only 21g. With battery: 31.35g compared to commercial 38.15g. Thermoelectric Fan Powered by a Candle - All. A Thermoelectric generator powered by a tealight.

Thermoelectric Fan Powered by a Candle - All

It started as an experiment of how much power I could get from one candle. But I liked the idea and it worked really well so I built this electric-mechanical ornament. I did not use a high temperature TEG-module, but instead a cheap TEC-module. That can still handle 200 degrees Celsius which is good enough. Make an LED Light Box. We start by cutting the wood to the desired size you want the box to be.

Make an LED Light Box

This box has 60 x 40 x 8 cm (aprox 15" by 23" by 3" tall) and you can make it any size you want but I recommend not making it too shallow so you can get a better light refraction inside the box. For the material I am using 10mm plywood that is going to be joined with 45º miters with internal splines for reinforcement but you can use solid wood or 1/2" or 3/4" plywood that you might have laying around. To make the 45º angle cuts, I used a table saw sled made specially for this type of cuts and you can see how I made it right here. After cutting all the 4 sides to their final size, you will want to create two rabbets all around. One is for the backer board to seat properly later and the other one is for the white opaline acrylic sheet (translucent) slide in and out if someday you need to replace it. One of the sides is a bit narrower than the other three. How to remove a dent from wood. TheRandomLab: DIY PCBs on the cheap: toner transfer with Box Packing Tape and a Hair Straightener / Iron.

That means also making about 100 tiny PCBs!

TheRandomLab: DIY PCBs on the cheap: toner transfer with Box Packing Tape and a Hair Straightener / Iron

Want the short story? Watch the video:Long storyUsing the classic iron and magazine paper may be ok for one board, but I didn't want to repeat the process until getting the right and uniform heat and pressure needed. So I went the laminator way. Bought an old professional laminator (people say home laminators' plastic parts tend to melt at the needed temperature), modified the heat controlling circuit, and made the board with that. By chance one of the prints landed on the adhesive tape, and... it looked good! With the laminator, the tape seemed to behave different than the magazine paper, so it didn't work. So I went to the next thrift store and bought a $8 used wide shape hair iron, with temperature control. Arduino & NunChuck create Real Time DIY Pan & Tilt Camera. Learn to create your own DIY pan and tilt camera which is controllable (in basically real time) by using a Wii nunchuck and the Arduino.

Arduino & NunChuck create Real Time DIY Pan & Tilt Camera

 By moving and rotating the nunchuck, two servo motors match your movements allowing you to control your camera and take pictures. If you’re unfamiliar with the arduino, see our tutorial and the top 40 Arduino projects of the web. How to Make your Own: Grab a nunchuck ($12.50 on eBay), an arduino and two servo motors.We’ve covered how to connect and use the wiimote as an accelerometer in a previous tutoiralAttach them roughly as shown in the image below (slightly different because you have two servos)Upload the arduino sketch.For full details, you can check out the tutorial write up. 100 IC Circuits. The 74c14 IC is one of the most useful chips on the market.

100 IC Circuits

When you realise its versatility, you will use it for lots of designs. In this section we describe its capability and provide circuits to show how it can be used. The 74C14 IC contains 6 Schmitt Trigger gates. Minimum supply voltage 5v Maximum supply voltage 15v Max current per output 10mA - 60mA total Maximum speed of operation 4MHz Current consumption approx 1uA with nothing connected to the inputs or outputs. The output of each gate will deliver about 10mA. Arduino Laser Engraver Wood Design! Hi everybody, my name is Michiel and I am going to show you how to make an awesome looking laser engraver! A couple of months ago, there was a CNC challenge here at instructables, while checking out the entries of that contest, I saw some pretty cool engraving machines and I thought: "Why shouldn't I make my own?

". And so I did, but I didn't want to make someone else's project, I wanted to make my own. And so my story began... :) This laser engraver uses a 1.8W 445nm laser module, of course, this is nothing compared to the industrial laser cutters who use lasers of (a lot) more than 50W. Getting started with Arduino - Two Player Arduino Pong. Aromatizador de Ambientes - Faça você mesmo! - Homens da Casa. Você já parou pra pensar em qual é o cheiro da sua casa? Vou admitir que a minha, antes da diarista, tinha cheiro de jaula. Mas tudo mudou… Bed in a Box. I should preface any description of the design by mentioning that a picture really is worth a thousand words, especially in this case. If any of these explanations don't make sense, be sure to check out the photos to clarify (more so during the other steps than this one; these pictures are just a compilation of my poorly organized design sketches). The design is simple enough; it consists of two main parts/systems: the "box" and the slat/rail system.

The "box" is a simple box, cut in half, which contains the extending sides. In order for the box to be able to close completely, the sides (and hinges) have to be offset by several inches. This will be covered in greater detail in the next step. The slat/rail system consists of a 1"x2" pine board running along both sides of the extended "box". I'll cover the assembly in greater detail in the following steps, but for now I'll wrap up this step with the list of materials needed: Electronic Components. Surface mount touchscreen for under £60!

Build a Touchless 3D Tracking Interface with Everyday Materials. Combine low-tech materials with some high-tech components and build a completely Touchless 3D Tracking Interface. Explore capacitive sensing by using several panels of cardboard lined with aluminum foil. These panels, when charged, create electric fields that correspond to X, Y, and Z axes to create a 3D cube. With the aid of an Arduino microcontroller and some supplied code, movements inside the cube are tracked as your hand moves around inside the field.

Laser engraver with arduino. You will need some material for your machine, in which I produced a list of required material. You will need tools. Bill of materials: 1x Arduino Uno 1x Motor Jaw Shaft Coupler 5x5mm 1x CNC Shield v3.1 1x Laser driver 12v 2x stepper motors Nema 17. DIY Arduino Motor Shield (L298N Chip 2-4 Amps. Today, I'm going to show you how to make an Arduino motor shield (driver) at a low cost. It works splendidly, its posses almost all the characteristics of the original Arduino motor shield. It's almost considered as a clone. The original Arduino motor shield has the same motor driver chip (L298), the only difference with it, is the package type, my project contains the vertical version of the chip L298 (with a "N").

Structure: It's controlled using 4 PWM pins. The connections are: 11&10 for the R-Motor and 6&5 for the L-Motor. What Is A Motor Shield? Supercapacitor Programmable Attiny LED flashlight. Long time ago, I saw that some drivers in flashlights are using Attiny microcontrollers to deal with different modes. Pancake Printer. How to Make DIY Heated Insoles. 3D Printed Self-Watering Planter. I looked around online at self-watering planters and came up with the design you see here. Basically, it consists of a basin that keeps standing water and a cup with a perforated bottom that stays submerged in the water.

Wood Block LED Clock. Reworking The Clock The main driver for me was that I already has the most important part... a barebones clock. Heatless (cold) Toner Transfer for PCB making. Destroy Any Device With EMP Jammer. Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi 2. Martin Wimpress and Rohith Madhavan have made an Ubuntu MATE image for the Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 which you can download or build yourself. The image is based on the regular Ubuntu armhf base, not the new Snappy Core, which means that the installation procedure for applications is the same as that for the regular desktop version, ie using apt-get. However, since Ubuntu MATE 16.04 snap packages can be installed alongside classic deb packages. How to capture remote control codes using an Arduino and an IRreceiver.

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