Projects

Ideas

Ripples in water running down a slope

Art materials & fun parts

• 180 square LED push buttons
• Giant push buttons
• Grove stuff
• Seeed Studio 24GHz human presence detectors
• Seeed Studio Can Bus interfaces
• Mouse encoders
• Hard drive parts - disks magnets motors voice coils
• Ultrasonics
• IR motion sensors
• NFC/RFID tags and Arduino reader RFID-RC522
• Solar cells
• Solar panels
• One-wire temperature sensors - got a USB one wire adapter to test the sensors
• Scanner and printer parts

Audio

Amplifiers

Speakers and crossovers

Automotive

• Toyota Yaris - see that page for full details
• especially the OBD II

Plastics

http://www.danperezstudios.com/works...ng_casting.htm

http://www.resincasting.co.uk/

http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~museum/...old_notes.html

Here is one video, the people who posted this one (http://www.freemansupply.com/ ) have a great series of clips and if you live in the USA, an online store. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQkzWvHRdZ0

(From a friend:) The stuff I use is mostly Alumilite brand, I get the white solid plastic (they have rubbery and foam plastics) as well as the black dye, it only takes like 2 drops of the dye to make parts black. Decent hobby shops should have this as well as silicon. You will also want demolding spray (its essentially a Vaseline aerosol), for me that was the hardest thing to find.

Bicycles

• Repair the Raleigh Alyeska rear dropout
• 8 speed wheelset

1. shifter
2. powder coat

• Lighting

Communications, RF, and Radio

• LoRa at 900 and LoRa at 70cm
• APRS and APRS on LoRa
• Digirig and Winlink
• All the TARRA projects
• SVXlink for Echolink
• Ubiquiti network
• RS422 for Magnavox
• RS232 for TrippLite UPS
• Black phone and white phone on Asterisk
• Learn more about handhelds Kenwood TH-F6A and Kenwood TH-D74A
• Byonics TinyTrak4
• Byonics MT8000

Computer

Linux

• DBus

Database

• MPG / maintenance / trip log
• Bike training - date/distance/notes/which bike/gpx track/map/photos/maintenance log

Electronics, general

Get a degree in Electrical Engineering

Stuff I learned about but have not investigated

• LTC1157 level shifters
• Infineon and Power Integrations power management
• Infineon LED controllers (buck power supplies) See Digikey product info
• Silicon Labs Bluetooth Smart modules, around $12 from Digikey

Misc projects and stuff around the lab

• high brightness LED's
• white LED's
• USB LCD display
• Ultrasonics
• Hall effect
• Electret mikes
• Dad's CMOS clock
• IR Sensors ( WRT54G interface? )
• WRT54G JTAG
• Test RS485 adapter
• LED desk light
• PIC programmer
• Doppler radar motion sensors

GIS

• ArcGIS - writing addins for ArcGIS Pro
• OpenCV well finding
• Dispatch
• terrestrial LiDAR, including garden mapping
• Multiband imagery
• Viewsheds
• GAIA viewer from http://TheCarbonProject.com

House and IoT

• WiFi Halow
• Matter and Thread
• Home Automation thingies
  1. Feit dimmers (3) convert to ESPHOME (or MQTT anyway)
  2. Martin Jerry dimmers (many) convert to ESPHOME
  3. Motion sensors, esp radar based
  4. Ultrasonic parking sensor

• Watching TV incl remote controls

Navigation

• Scan Magnavox manual
• AgTrak
• Leica GPS
• Magnavox GPS reference station, set up
• Trimble Placer GPS