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Antique Radio to MP3 Player
I found this beautiful antique wood radio at an antique store for $12. The electronics were pretty far gone, so I thought it would be a great choice for a…
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Traffic Signal
I found this awesome vintage Eagle Traffic Signal at an antique shop; It’s solid aluminum with glass lenses. I wired it to a controller that allows me to program the…
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1800’s Bipolar Electric Motor
I found this very early Bipolar Electric Motor (circa 1800s) at an estate sale last week. It was in poor condition and non-working, but still an amazing find. Since I…
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Amateur Radio – Ham Shack
I passed my Amateur Radio Technician license a couple of months ago (N4NEC), and I’ve just completed making a proper ham shack for myself. I installed a vertical dual-band 2m/70cm…
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Making a Voice Assistant – part 3
I decided to house my voice assistant in this cool antique bakelite radio that I found at an estate sale. (The radio was in pieces and non-working, so it was…
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Making a Voice Assistant – part 2
I have made some progress with my Python voice assistant. I have it running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with an Adafruit Voice Bonnet. The code doesn’t run as…
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Making a Voice Assistant – part 1
I use my Alexa Echo devices daily for various purposes. While I find it incredibly useful, Alexa does have limitations, and it would be great if it were more customizable.…
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Commodore 64
I consider myself something of a videogame historian: I like to collect and restore vintage computers, and then run original games on the original hardware. One of my recent adventures…
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BEAM Headbot
This is a simple BEAM robot (BEAM is an acronym for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics, and it describes a style of robotics developed by Mark Tilden in the late…
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R.O.B. Robot Hack
This was a fun electronics project that I did a few years ago. I hacked an old Nintendo NES R.O.B Robot to be controllable from a PC via a webpage…