Retro boombox becomes bluetooth speaker
For just a few dollars you can buy a small board that acts as a bluetooth audio device. This board allows you to build your own bluetooth speaker. But why build a new speaker when you still have an old…
This category contains all posts regarding other projects not directly related to radio but still useful and/or fun to build.
For just a few dollars you can buy a small board that acts as a bluetooth audio device. This board allows you to build your own bluetooth speaker. But why build a new speaker when you still have an old…
I always have been fascinated by growing things in an automated way. For instance, I absolutely adore the FarmBot project and would really like to build such a machine once I’ve got time and money for it. Until then, I…
Geocaching is a popular hobby here in The Netherlands. Since my wife and I search for these caches from time to time, the idea came to me to build a cache myself, one that challenges geocachers to listen and decode…
Almost every nerd is a fan of automation. So whenever we find a repetitive job, we think of a solution to automate it. Since I’m both into automation and amateur radio, I was thinking on automating one of my straight…
Time… For some reason we tend to stick to an ancient system which has no logic at all. Let’s be honest: if we would invent a new time system nowadays, it would probably not have 7 days in a week,…
During the summer season bats fly around almost every day in the twilight. I spot them in the evening, when they fly along our house and hunt for small flying insects, mostly mosquitoes and flies. Their soundless air show is…
My TV camera generates stereo audio, like most cameras do. However, my local ATV repeater only supports mono audio. So to transmit a nice audio signal with my TV pictures, I needed a way to convert the stereo signal to…