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In another post I showed how to use a tortilla press to compress melted HDPE plastic in flat disks to use for making things. I made a bit m...

I wrote about this a couple years back and I have significantly refined this process so I figured I would provide an update. I still find m...

Our christmas tree lights plug into the wall behind the tree and are always hard to reach without sprinkling needles on the floor when we wa...

I found this old answering machine and originally thought it was a good find for just harvesting the 7-segment display. But as it sat around...

I made a series of drawings with the LogoTurtle a while back and I am revisiting the same idea of "exploded shapes" using Turtle ...

Blink one LED Blink 2 LEDs Turn on an LED with a button Use a potentiometer to dim an LED . Control a servo motor

I've seen several videos showing how to melt down HDPE plastic containers and mold them into usable forms for projects. But I've bee...

Good news! I just found a discarded VCR with an LED display. That means it's time to salvage the display and make a project out of it....

You can buy many kinds of standard 7-segment displays, but I prefer hacking salvaged ones you can find in broken e-waste. True, it's e...

I'm recording in pictures the steps I'm taking to power and control this Yamaha Futaba vfd I removed from an old entertainment syste...