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Frank Milburn

Retired mechanical engineer who likes to tinker.

Seattle, Washington

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This user joined on 12/30/2015.

My Projects

The Blinking Coin Cell Christmas Tree runs entirely off the power of a coin cell with a bit of a gravity assist.

Gravity Assisted Blinking Coin Cell Christmas Tree

frank-milburn Frank Milburn

Projects I Like & Follow

The 2018 Hackaday Prize

A smaller and cheaper open source brushless motor

PCB Motor

carl-bugeja Carl Bugeja

Takes 3D surface scans at close range. It is simple to construct as it uses off the shelf hardware and software.

3D scanner

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

Next Gen LiFePO4 battery / UPS / power manager for Raspberry Pi, ideal for headless and IoT use

LiFePO4wered/Pi+

patrick-van-oosterwijck Patrick Van Oosterwijck

The 2018 Hackaday Prize

This project started when my digger obsessed son said 'Daddy can you make me an Excavator?' So I thought sure how hard can it be....

Plywood Excavator

alex-lovegrove Alex Lovegrove

A beginners guide to adding a VFD display to your project or "How to make use of all those Cold War Era Russian tubes you bought on eBay"

Driving Vacuum Fluorescent Display Tubes

I2C OLED connected to an Attiny85 and a Charlie-plexed button matrix

Skeleton Attiny85 Handheld

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

Minimal, yet powerful combination of control and measurement tools integrated with an SBC running Python based UIs for science & Engg. Expts

SEELablet : Instrument Cluster For Laboratories

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

A novelmulti-layer film that lets you quickly and easily make flexible copper PCBs all using normal, unmodified home printers

Printem - Instant Printed Circuit Boards

The 2017 Hackaday Prize

Interactive LED Kit

Trixel LED

Keeping an eye on the seafloor (especially shellfish)

LoBSTAS: Underwater Camera + Sensor

ellie-t Ellie T

Add voice control to your robot with the Google Assistant, Adafruit IO, and IFTTT!

Wi-Fi Voice Controlled Robot with Google Assistant

The 2018 Hackaday Prize

A minimalist 1.5V coin cell led tree with all components and power source confined within a mini breadboard.

Joule Thief Mini Christmas Tree

chris-chung Chris Chung

Making a dumb coffee grinder slightly less dumb.

grinder_timer

Blinking RGB LEDs with 555s and a handful of 74-series logic

NeoPixel Punk Console

adrian-studer Adrian Studer

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

A DIY set-up to listen to, record, and manipulate the electrical tones produced by weakly electric fish!

The Electric Fish Piano

Created a finger joint cutter for a tablesaw using stepper motor and some air cylinders. The user interface is the browser on my cell phone

Internet of Tablesaw

Using a CR2477 coin cell and two 350 farad capacitors, I manage to get a loaded Lionel train to make one circuit around the Christmas tree.

Coin Cell Train

mike-rigsby Mike Rigsby

COW = (California, Oregon, Washington).

TriState-COW, HackerBox

jeremy-g Jeremy g.

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