Monthly Archives: May 2011

DIY Guitar Pickup

This week I built small single coil guitar pickup to demonstrate the way they work by induction. This was a really fun project because I ended up also building a simple one string guitar! There’s a lot of info on … Continue reading

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The Whack A Mouse Project

Inspired by my friends at Toymaker Television, I decided to build an interactive Cat toy thingy. After some thought, I figured that a toy mouse poking it’s head out of a hole might be fun. When the Cat whacked at … Continue reading

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The Two Way Camera Dolly

I’ve always admired the film maker Ken Burns. His use of still photos is a trademark called “The Ken Burs Effect”. They’re brought to life through the use closeup shots and slow pans. I thought this technique would be a … Continue reading

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Dell Mini USB repair

This week I decided to share a repair I did on a Dell Mini 10v. I got it on ebay for a very reasonable price because it had a broken USB port, It appears it got dropped with a device … Continue reading

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