DIY Electronic Craft Ideas

If you want to start tinkering around with electronics you need to make sure you don't electrocute yourself. Even smaller electronics can give you a pretty good shock if you're not careful. Worse, if you do something even slightly wrong, your whole project might blow up in your face. Even if you want to just start tinkering around with something learning the basics of electricity is important. Electrocuting yourself isn't all that likely, but one wrong move and you might destroy your project. If you have some old electronics sitting around, now's a good time to take them apart and start poking at them to see how they work.

Once you know the basics of electricity and the components you're working with, it's time to actually start working on tutorials. One place to start is with a kit that includes everything you need. Collection of kits can start you on your way to working with everything project packs and kits provide you with everything you need to get started with whatever type of electronics project you want.

One of the key things to learn right off the bat is that expert experience isn't required for DIY projects. You just need an idea of what you want to make, and from there you can find tutorials guiding you through the process. Following other people's guides is where the fun really starts. Once you find something you want to make, you can make improvements to their designs to make it work better for you, or move on to a bigger project. Once you get a few under your belt, you won't have any trouble hacking together something completely on your own.

Here are Electronics For You's tested electronics engineering project ideas and embedded mini electronics projects. DIY designs for gadget charging and lighting. So of course we were drawn to this entry in the Instruct tables Green Design contest for creating a simple thermo electric emergency generator for an LED light (or possibly other gadgets) using just a handful of parts. It is not only a neat project for creating an emergency light but also an excellent project for kids learning about science. You have one hot side and one cold. The temperature difference in the module will start producing electricity. The physical concept when you use it as a generator it's called the Seebeck effect. Thermoelectic modules are mainly used for the opposite effect, the Pettier effect. Then you apply a electric load and it will force a heat transfer from one side to the other. Often used in smaller refrigerators and coolers." The list of materials is short some food tins, tea lights, and a few electronic components.

These projects are for beginners, hobbyists & electronics enthusiasts. The mini projects are designed to be very helpful for engineering and professionals building their own embedded system designs and circuits. The projects are also compiled from time to time to provide a single destination for project junkies. Let us know how you feel about the content and any thing you would like us to cover in the future. I recently got a great deal on two boxes of solar garden/path lamps 8 including shipping These lamps are great for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is they use rechargeable batteries, replenished daily by the sun, and require no expensive electricity. It was only a matter of time before one of these lamps got the makeover of my real passion

What you'll need:

Tools:

• Hole saw set

• Power drill

• Rotary tool

• Clamp

Materials:

• Block of wood

• Hollow dowel

• Cabinet handle

• Screws

• Grommet

• Black paint

• Clear varnish