Hack your vehicle CAN-BUS with Arduino and Seeed CAN-BUS Shield
Modern Vehicles all come equipped with a CAN-BUS Controller Area Network, Instead of having a million wires running back and forth from various devices in your car to the battery, its making use of a...
View ArticleCar to Arduino Communication: CAN Bus Sniffing and Broadcasting with Arduino
From Wikipedia, the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus is a "vehicle bus standard designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other within a vehicle without a host computer."...
View ArticleARUPi - A Low-Cost Automated Recording Unit for Soundscape Ecologists
This instructable was written by Anthony Turner. The project was developed with lots of help from the Shed in the School of Computing, University of Kent (Mr Daniel Knox was a great help!).It will show...
View ArticleA Dodecahedron Speaker for Desktop Printers
At normal listening distances, an array of twelve speakers arranged on the faces of a dodecahedron is a very good approximation of a point sound source, and the sound waves it produces are very close...
View ArticleLithophanes: 3D Printing your photos!
Every time there's a birthday or an event of any kind where I need to buy a gift, I'm always faced with the same problem.. "What should I get him/her?" and I can rarely find an idea that's worth...
View ArticleAuto-Generated Custom Greenhouse
Hey all! This project culminates the work I did for Autodesk in my final semester of college. For the past few months I’ve been lucky enough to work part-time for Autodesk through their Campus Expert...
View ArticleThermoextensible 3D Printed Structures: Capabilities and Applications
Thermoextensible structures are a class of 2D or 3D structure that can be fabricated in a "collapsed" state from a thermoplastic and then heated past the glass transition point of the constituent...
View ArticleMake 3d Printed Topo Maps of Anywhere
When I was a kid I was dragged through more National Park visitor centers than I can remember. For me the highlight was the always the miniature model of whatever park it was. By exploring that model...
View Article3D Print Chemical Structures
Remember making those ball and stick models in chemistry class? Well I do and it brings back bad memories of long study hours, mind numbing equations, and stressful exams. But as an aging nerd, I've...
View ArticleHow to make accurate 3D molecular models
Ever wanted an accurate 3D model of your favorite molecule? Here's how. All the software used is free, and there are lots of ways to fabricate your model. I used a 3D printer to make small molecules...
View ArticleHow to 3D print an animation inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
Most 3D printers work by taking a 3D file (like an STL), and slicing it into a stack of 2D files. The 2D files are then printed one on top of the other to create the final 3D form. Here we'll start...
View ArticleCheap OBD2 communications on K-line (ISO 9141-2 and ISO 14230-4)
This is just another OBD2 solution for monitoring the sensors in a verhicle. It supports the K-line OBD2 serial communication between a verhicle and a microcontroller. This K-line communication is also...
View Article3D Print an Earthquake
It's easy to find data for the shake intensity of nearly every earthquake around the world, and this data is generated almost immediately after an earthquake hits. This walks through the steps to turn...
View Article3D Printed Photograph
The 3d printer in our office (an Objet Connex500) prints with a rigid, semitransparent white material that can be used to create these unique black and white photographic prints. These prints may be...
View ArticleBlooms: Phi-Based Strobe Animated Sculptures
This instructable demonstrates and explains blooms, a unique type of sculpture I invented that animates when spun while lit by a strobe light (or captured by a video camera with a very fast shutter...
View Article3D Printed In-Dash GPS Navigation - Raspberry Pi 3.
Waaaay back in 2009, when I was first tinkering with my Silver Jimny¹, one of the first modifications to the interior was the removal of the passenger airbag so I could fit in a laptop. The Laptop...
View ArticlePringle Can MIDI Drums
Ever wanted to unleash your inner rock god, but couldn't find the space to put a drum kit? Frustrated at trying to play GarageBand with fat fingers? Or just someone who can't stop eating crisps?...
View ArticleIndestructible Drones For Dummies The key to Real stable flights
Today I will just give some Quadcopter/Multirotor Build or.. setup guide I got my first quadcopter "WALKERA LADYBIRD" 6 months ago When I first played Call of duty. In preparation for flying a bigger...
View ArticleRope Puzzle
This is a fun and easy little project to make. I made the main pieces with scrap wood and an old piece of rope. I purchased the wood beads from a craft store but these could have been made from scrap...
View Article3D PRINTED SELF MEMORY STRUCTURE
Taking advantage of the TPE (specially formulated thermoplastic elastomer), I did a series of study with my Printrbot Simple Metal, testing out both the limit of the material and the printer. Such as...
View ArticleLSM303DLHC accelerometer and magnetometer exploration
The LSM303 combines readings from the earth’s electromagnetic field as a magnetometer with readings of earth’s gravitational force as a triple-axis accelerometer. This information makes it a compact...
View ArticleReal-time Web Based Household Power Usage Monitor
This Instructable details a real-time web based household power usage monitor. The end result is a live chart in a web page that updates every 10 seconds with the instantaneous power usage for my...
View Article3D Printer - Working Area 40x40x40cm
Hello everyone, in this project I want to show you how to make a 3D Printer.I always wanted to have a diy 3d printer. The easiest way to make it is print frame parts and coonnect it with aluminium...
View ArticleMicro 105 FPV Quadcopter - 3D Printed
I've been flying 250 sized FPV (first person view) quadcopters for just over a year now. For those who aren't familiar with FPV, you outfit a camera to the front of your quadcopter and transmit the...
View ArticleSimple DIY Volume Control Knob!
Got a desktop with a sound system far from where you sit?--I do. After a bit of digging, I found that it was pretty easy to make my own soft volume control knob on the cheap.In this tutorial I will...
View ArticleSoundwave Vase
One thing that always strikes us as untouchable is sound : it's all over our world, fills our memories, our day-to-day lives, and allows us to express ourselves, but as soon as those waves have...
View ArticleHow to 3D Print a Photo: Lithophanes 101
If you are looking for your next 3D Printing Project, you need not look any further. 3D printed photos, also known as 3D Printed Lithophanes, are an extremely unique and creative application that is...
View ArticleHigh Tech Edelweiss (LED KIT) With Custom PCB
3D printed Electronic Edelweiss KIT created in Tyrol - an #OpenSource project as part of the Swarovski_IIR program. This High-Tech Edelweiss functions as an DIY kit for promotion of electronics +...
View ArticleMarble Clock
EDIT:This Instructable was featured on, Motherboard - VICEHackadayArduino's official blogHackster blogDigital TrendsNote:I have a twitter account where I share the progress of my projects before I...
View ArticlePiNAS - the Raspberry Pi NAS
Intro:This instructable describes the build of a very compact Raspberry Pi powered two bay network attached storage (NAS).Features: Super small Easy to build Simple setup Cheap Perfect for learning...
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