Date
Name
Progress
Random
Wireless Headphones on the cheap
Progress: Completed (sorta)
Home made wireless headphones using an FM radio.
4 Aug 2008
Rollei 35 Meter Repair
Progress: Complete
An electrical fault wrapped in mechanics wrapped in a faux-leather finish.
9 Feb 2016
MIDI Slide Whistle
Progress: Complete
Mechatronic goodness
7 Feb 2021
Better Continuity Test
Progress: Complete
Marvellous multimeter modification
13 Jun 2015
The Most Useless USB Device Ever
Progress: Completed
The most useless machine ever created is now even less practical.
4 Aug 2010
Mini Pitchbend Joystick
Progress: Completed
A tiny joystick for bending pitch
11 Sep 2017
Luxury Timewaster
Progress: Complete
With brass knobs on!
28 Jun 2019
Pencil Ballista
Progress: Almost finished
The peak of office warfare.
14 Jul 2008
Taser Tie
Progress: Completed
Yes. A taser in a tie.
5 Jul 2008
Rubik's Cube Alarm Clock
Progress: Design Stages
Solve it to get it to shut up.
2 Jul 2008
Power over MIDI
Progress: Completed
Allowing an old keyboard to be powered over a MIDI USB cable.
25 Jun 2013
Stylophone Circuit Bending
Progress: Completed
It squeals.
25 Dec 2013
LT Earrings
Progress: Complete
Earrings, wot look like timewasters
16 Feb 2020
Flash Synth
Progress: Complete
It's another minuscule MIDI miracle!
18 Oct 2019
Oscillator Calibrator
Progress: Complete
ATtiny tool
6 Feb 2020
Security Cube
Progress: Concept
A combination lock inspired by the rubik's cube.
5 Jul 2008
Chainmail Hoody
Progress: Design Stages
Not a hauberk.
14 Jan 2010
Precision Clock Mk II
Progress: Complete
Aye, and accurate too.
28 Sep 2015
Letter Master
Progress: Complete
Master sword letter opener
26 Sep 2020
Transparent USB Mouse
Progress: Completed
I like to think it evokes the same retro feel as the original Gameboy.
1 Jan 2011
RC Transmitter USB Joypad Mk II
Progress: Complete
A slightly less crazy conversion.
29 Mar 2017
Rumbler
Progress: Complete
Rednoise Generator
23 Jun 2020
UV Protection Amulet
Progress: Complete
Protect against the harmful rays of the sun!
29 Oct 2021
Jiggy
Progress: Complete
Golden Jigsaw Piece
13 Sep 2021
Wireless Sustain Pedal
Progress: Completed
A keyboard sustain pedal - but without wires!
28 Mar 2015
An even smaller, even sillier synth
Progress: Complete
An intro to MIDI over USB
13 Apr 2016
Hardware Reverse Oscilloscope 2
Progress: Complete
A synthesizer with jacks and sliders!
22 Sep 2023
Ship in a Bottle
Progress: Suspended
The ultimate test of patience.
21 Mar 2010
Knurled Earrings
Progress: Complete
Inevitable, really.
29 Jun 2019
Hand soldering a WLCSP package
Progress: Complete
It's my idea of a relaxing evening.
23 Jun 2018
Cube Earrings
Progress: Completed
Dangly shiny geometric thingies
19 Dec 2019
Portable Jacob's Ladder
Progress: Complete
You know, for when you need a Jacob's Ladder on the go.
3 Jun 2017
Etch-a-Sketch USB Mouse
Progress: Complete
Cartesian computer-controlling creation
18 Mar 2016
Sewing Machine
Progress: Abandoned
To answer the oft-pondered question of, is it possible to build a sewing machine out of old printer parts?
23 Nov 2013
Brass Wobbler
Progress: Complete
It wobbles, and it's made of brass.
6 Aug 2019
9V LED Torches
Progress: Completed
My design of very handy little torches you can make in no time.
20 Jul 2010
Letter Buster
Progress: Complete
Buster sword letter opener
4 Sep 2020
Wooden Draining Board
Progress: Completed
Wax those woodworking skills
9 Feb 2014
Bluetooth Hip Flask
Progress: Completed
Takes 'talking to your drink' to a new level.
25 Jul 2010
Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion
Progress: Complete
Army of Robot Slide Whistles
1 Apr 2024
LiPoCheck
Progress: Complete
Simple battery level bar graph
10 Nov 2017
Morse Code USB Keyboard Mk II
Progress: Complete
USB-HID Morse code keyboard
2 Nov 2015
Etching PCBs with a Laser Cutter
Progress: Complete
Turns out it's pretty easy to do.
24 Apr 2016
Thermal Paper Polaroid
Progress: Complete
A linux adventure with lots and lots of drilling.
4 Apr 2018
A Silent PC
Progress: Completed
A watercooled PC with a twist.
27 May 2009
Midi Monotron
Progress: Complete
An itsy-bitsy midi-to-CV converter
16 Aug 2015
Micro Stirling Engine
Progress: Completeish
Spoiler: it doesn't run. Yet.
8 Sep 2014
The Impatient Electric Beam Engine
Progress: Completed
Increasing the entropy of the universe, inefficiently!
2 Dec 2013
Recreating the Yamaha BC3a
Progress: Complete
Building my own Midi Breath Controller
22 Feb 2015
Hand soldering an MSOP-10 package
Progress: Complete
0.5mm pitch? Breakout boards are for wimps!
8 Oct 2016
Touch Screen as a MIDI Ribbon Controller
Progress: Complete
It's actually cheaper! And much more durable than anything homemade.
28 Jun 2016
DDC OLED
Progress: Complete
The most useless second monitor possible
31 Mar 2022
The World's Smallest Go-karts
Progress: Design Stages
The challenge: create ridiculously small go-karts and race them around the school playground.
1 Jul 2008
Random Flash Drives
Progress: Completed
The possibilities are endless!
19 May 2009
Precision Clock Mk II½
Progress: Completed
Perfecting the pursuit of precision
3 May 2019
Light comms on the 003
Progress: Complete
Tiny terrahertz transmissions
31 Jul 2024
Wobbler
Progress: Completed
The simplest style of miniature steam engine, but a miniature steam engine nonetheless.
19 Aug 2014
Keytar
Progress: Suspended
An icon of an era in oak.
31 Dec 2014
MIDI Keyboard Repair
Progress: Complete
Fixing the bashed-in keys of a Yamaha KX5
26 Oct 2014
Musical Greetings Card
Progress: Complete
Midi on the ATtiny85 Part 2
6 Jul 2015
Another Two-headed Coin
Progress: Complete
It's ten times the value!
10 Sep 2016
Ikonta Focus Calibration
Progress: Complete
A technique for setting infinity focus
9 Feb 2016
Two-headed Coin
Progress: Completed
Is my luck improving?
21 Sep 2014
Electric Melodica, or: the Breath Controller Mk II
Progress: Complete
Analogue arrangement allows astounding articulation
14 Dec 2015
RC Transmitter as USB Joypad
Progress: Complete
For giving RC simulators that authentic feel.
14 Oct 2016
CharlieStar, the Lilliputian Glowy Thing
Progress: Complete
Mucking about with the smallest μC
11 Feb 2017
MIDI over Bluetooth
Progress: Work-in-progress
How hard can it be?
18 Jun 2016
Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe
Progress: Completed
Some pictures of my other DT project.
5 May 2007
Corporate Identity: Livetech
Progress: Completed
Some pictures of my old DT coursework.
5 Jul 2007
Flag Steam Engine
Progress: Completed
A tiny working steam engine with integrated boiler.
23 Sep 2014
NES Controller MP3 Player
Progress: Completed
An MP3 player inside an old NES controller.
6 Jul 2008
Steampunk DDC OLED
Progress: Complete
A silly hack deserves a silly enclosure
12 May 2022
MIDI on the ATtiny
Progress: Complete
The world's smallest synthesizer? Maybe the world's simplest...
27 May 2015
Hardware Reverse Oscilloscope
Progress: Complete
Standalone draw-a-waveform MIDI synthesizer
18 Jul 2015
Ballpoint Resurrection
Bring a Biro back to life.
30 Nov 2014
Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth
Progress: Complete
The smallest and silliest MIDI synth yet
15 Dec 2023
MIDI Music Box
Progress: Complete
MIDI Mangling Musicbox Mechanism
17 Mar 2018
Toolmaker's Clamp
Progress: Complete
Miniature milled metal marvel
20 Jun 2019
Motorised Camera Slider
Progress: Complete
Simple smooth motor mod
7 Jul 2024
Seven Segment Scroller
Progress: Complete
LED message machine.
20 Apr 2016
LED Matrix Earrings
Progress: Complete
Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
20 Feb 2024
Polyphonic Synth Cable
Progress: Complete
Tiny 8-note polyphonic square wave synthesizer.
17 Nov 2015
LED Industrial Piercing
Progress: Complete
Illuminated circuit inside a hypodermic
22 Dec 2023
Precision Clock
Progress: Complete
But I make no claims for its accuracy.
7 Jun 2015
Wireless Skype Phone
Progress: Completed
DIY Skype phone built using recycled parts.
13 Jul 2008
Bluetooth HID gamepad using HC-05 module
Progress: Complete
Reflash the HC-05 without using a parallel port. Insert into SNES pad.
31 Jul 2016
World's Smallest MIDI Synthesizer
Progress: Complete
Good luck trumping this one.
5 Aug 2015
Midi Interceptor
Progress: Complete
Reversibly adding more controls to a keyboard
22 Oct 2015
Phase-locked Inverter
Progress: Complete
Running a 60Hz synchronous clock from the 50Hz mains
12 Jun 2019
Calibrator Keyboard
Progress: Complete
I'm as confused as you are.
29 Apr 2023
Tiny Dovetail Cube
Progress: Complete
Impossible!
14 Sep 2019
Headphone Amps
Progress: Complete
Expensive op-amps. There is only one use for them.
27 Jun 2016
Lego MP3 player
Progress: Completed
A Lego brick MP3 player. Complete with such functionality as "play" and "next track" and even the exotic "previous track"
16 Jul 2008
Origami Wallet
Progress: Completed
Hardly origami, but is made from a single piece of paper with no cuts and no glue or tape.
13 Jul 2008
Nikon D3200 IR Conversion
Progress: Complete
Harder than it should be
11 Mar 2019
Multi Adapter
Progress: Completed
Cheap and simple.
1 Sep 2009
Controlling Old Tech Over a Serial Connection
Progress: Complete
Re-live the era of RS-232!
11 Feb 2015
Badge
Progress: Complete
A RISC-V LED matrix
8 Dec 2023
StyloCard
Progress: Complete
Stylophone Business Card
5 May 2018
Quick Release Handlebar Stem
Progress: Work-in-progress
Ingenious space-saver, or folding death machine? You decide!
31 Oct 2020
JV-1080 Encoder Repair
Progress: Complete
Emulating a rotary switch
21 Mar 2020
Creative Camera Mounts
Progress: Complete
Featuring MagPod, the magnetic tripod
8 Feb 2020
Automatic LED
Progress: Complete
Self-dimming display
5 Feb 2021
USB Red Button
Progress: Complete
Single-button USB keyboard
30 Dec 2015
POV Candle
Progress: Completed
Tiny volumetric display
1 Dec 2023
A Tiny Theremin
Progress: Work-in-progress
Attempt at an ATtiny theremin.
30 Jul 2015
Ghetto Barrel Jack
Progress: Complete
Header pins – is there anything they can't do?
8 Jun 2015
Brass Infinity Cube
Progress: Complete
Heavier is better!
7 Nov 2022
Games Console
Progress: Complete
An absurd adventure in assembly: a games console from scratch.
22 Dec 2018
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