Cut your fence post a few inches longer than your screen width. Deburr the edges, inside being just as important. Make 2 hardwood, Lexan, or acrylic blocks to plug the ends and accept your threaded rod. Being centered and true is important, or your whole...
Get help. Clean yourself. Clean the floor. Wash your hands often. Look for the weld line on the post, or otherwise establish a line along it's length. Line up your fabric with this line, and tape across the joint, applying slight tension the the fabric....
For the outlet power detectors:Cut the connectors off of your two wall warts and solder the grounds together (and to the ground on their Arduino)Solder the +5v wire of one wall wart to the +5v plug on the Spark core, and the other to digital input 3...
For the Androids involved:This one requires a bit more customization (unless you want a floorplan of my apartment in your system for some reason). You will need to download Unity and adjust the app to your needs. I am not planning on providing complete...
The location of the drill holes turns out to be more critical than I thought. I tried to match the existing holes in the shovel, but apparently I must have slightly flexed either the shovel or ruler while measuring. This caused the end result to be slightly...
Step 10 - You will likely want to mount some kind of USB extension connector through the back of the frame. Again, the type and style will depend on your control adapter, and if you've made it this far, you should be able to figure that out on...
Assemble itFor the head :Put the RGB LED.Then, fix the camera:And the two servomotors:Then, the high part of the body:The fix the down part and the base (One motor is missing because I don't receive it):Put the sticker:Get some wires:Build the first...
Get Some "Blueprints"Find some schematics for your favorite fictional starship or whatever. I used this drawing of the RSI Aurora from Star Citizen. For something more from the appropriate era, you might go for the Nautilus. You could also obviously...
Clean Up the ImageOpen up the image in your editor of choice. We're going to have to make some changes.1. Turn the saturation all the way down to get a black and white image.2. Adjust the levels for maximum contrast.3. Invert the colors. What you want...
Print Your Image on Transparency PaperGet yourself some transparency paper from Amazon. You remember, its the stuff they used on overhead projectors in elementary school. Don't even bother going to Staples or Office Depot. The guy gave me a weird look...
Expose the ImageLay the transparency on top of the photo paper and set it outside under a sheet of glass or acrylic. Professionals would use a UV light box (some of you may already have one for making PCBs), but 20 minutes in the California sun works...
What you should consider when choosing an amplifier: First you should consider the number of inputs and outputs you want;Then after you should consider the output power;Power supply get quickly expensive when you want more than 100W output and you might...
After installing Arch Linux using N.O.O.B.S, you can start and login with the account root and the password root.The first thing you should do is set up the network and update your system. You could plug it on a wired connection or launch wifi-menu if...