Homemade desk of scaffolding wood

I made a L-shape desk of scaffolding wood and galvanised pipes.

Darth Vader voice changer 2.0 part 4: almost finished

This is the fourth of a series of five where I design and build a Darth Vader chest box with the HT8950A chip. The series involves all the instructions for the electronics, laser cutting and a bit of 3d printing.

Designing parts for the Darth Vader chest box with OpenSCAD

I started using OpenSCAD for my Darth Vader chest box. OpenSCAD is a lightweight 3DCAD program that’s free and open source. It’s uses a scripting language to define the desired 3D model.

Darth Vader voice changer 2.0 part 3: amplifying and case revisited

This is the third of a series of five where I design and build a Darth Vader chest box with the HT8950A chip. The series involves all the instructions for the electronics, laser cutting and a bit of 3d printing.

Darth Vader voice changer 2.0 part 2: designing the case

This is the second of a series of five where I design and build a Darth Vader chest box with the HT8950A chip. The series involves all the instructions for the electronics, laser cutting and a bit of 3d printing.

Darth Vader voice changer 2.0 part 1: the HT8950A chip

This is the first of a series of five where I design and build a Darth Vader chest box with the HT8950A chip. The series involves all the instructions for the electronics, laser cutting and a bit of 3d printing.

Ancient laptop with Puppy Linux

The burglar that “visited” our house a couple of weeks ago took our laptops and tablets. Luckily our desktops were left alone (probably to heavy). Also a very old IBM Thinkpad T40 was left behind. The burglar probably thought it didn’t have any value. That was a bit of luck for me because with a […]

Plywood housing for the homemade surveillance camera

In the last two weeks I have built a Raspberry Pi surveillance camera. For the time being I used a crude housing made out of MDF. This was ok for testing purposes but now I wanted something more permanent. Something that I could attach to my window frame and that is able to pan and […]

Raspberry Pi security camera, first experience

Introduction Last week I wrote about the Raspberry Pi, the camera module and Motion acting as a surveillance camera. I’ve been testing my Raspberry Pi surveillance camera for a week now and the results are satisfying although there are also some problems. I think much of the succes of the camera comes down to finding […]

Homemade security camera with a Raspberry Pi

In this blog post I’ll describe how to build a simple security camera with a Raspberry Pi, a camera module and some MDF wood.