DK LABORATORIES

All Current & Legacy Projects

Projects (listed by date), both finished and nearing completion

Project Image	Project Title / Link	Date	Brief Description	Media / Instructable?
	Electric Snow Robot: The first generation	02.20.2018
	Mountainslider: Collapsible Electric Mountain-board	9.4.2017	DIY electric mountainboard that can be brought on a plane. Complies with FAA regulations and checked bag volume	Images
	Roche 454 Sequencer Teardown: Camera Awakening	5.14.2017	Teardown of the 454-lifesciences / roche-454 sequencer to extract the fancy chilled camera nestled in a vacuum chamber hidden inside the beast.	Images
	Quick Microscope Ring Light Adapter	5.10.17	Quick adapter for the Baush & Lomb Stereo zoom 7	Images
	Reviving An Ancient Robot for ART	4.w26.17	The MITERS entry into the RobotArt 2017 contest. Build details the repair and revival of a scara robot and early paint testing.	Images
	Aluminum Boat Upgrades	9.14.16	Sealing painting and repairing a 9' aluminum grummin rowboat	Images
	1KW Electric Outboard Conversion	6.30.16		Images
	Adventures of Strawberrybot	6.26.16		Images
	Reverse Engineering Armor x7 Battery	6.20.16		Images
	GH1 Camera Shutter Quick Fix	4.30.16		Images
	Chibi Atomic Thing Upgrades	8.22.15	Upgrades to chibiatomic contraption! In the weeks before the makerfaire Detroit, myself, Ciarán O Neill, Rob Reeve and Mike plotted upgrades to miters's first entry in PWRS (2014), chibiatomic jeep.	Images
	Combat Robot: Fission Product	5.27.15	The birth of Fission Product, combat robot for the 2015 motorama sportsman series. Fission Product was designed and fabricated during the boston bilzzard-weeks and brought to life with the help of miters comrades and a lot of on-the-fly machining.	Images
	Dell 3007 Repair	3.27.15	A quick 'upgrade' of a dell 3007 monitor to address power supply brownout due to thermal loading.	Images
	The Flying Nimbus Updates: Range and Hub Bearings	12.15.14	Enjoy Nimbus MK1? The following details upgrades to the Nimbus project, to increase its load handling capability, range and night-time visibility.	Images
	The Flying Nimbus: Balancing Skateboard	10.29.14	What does a recycled (heavily used) go kart tire, an action-packed three-phase servo drive and a gyro/accelerometer have in common? A Balancing Skateboard Contraption.	Images
	Chibi-Atomic-Jeep: Powerwheels Racing	8.6.14	At the last moment a group of mitersians decided to build an entry for the Detroit makerfaire powerwheels racing series using whatever parts that were lying around miters.	Images
	Testing The Submersible Thruster	5.22.14	How much force can a submersible thruster generate? How can you measure it without a full aquatic lab? This page documents experimental testing of the submersible thruster MK-01.	Images
	3 Phase Submersible Thruster	5.22.14	This project documents the design and developmental testing of a high-power, sealed, submersible thruster for an upcoming hydro-project.	Images
	TUNDRA UPGRADE: Electric Scooter on Ice	3.22.14	Upgraded front fork assembly and diy studded tire	Images
	Atomic Bumble Prime: 30lb Battlebot	2.16.14	Competing at motorama 2014!	Images
	Electric Scooter MK-01: OFF/ON Road Adventures	12.20.13	Documentation of construction of a rather large electric scooter for 'semi-offroad' use.	Images
	3D-PRINT-ARM: SCARA 3D Printer UPGRADE	10.4.13	Detailed walkthrough of SCARA Robot Arm upgrades	Images
	Motorola S305 Bluetooth headphone revival	9.28.13	A quick guide to repairing Motorola S304 Headphones	Images
	Quick Inverse Panorama Camera Jig	4.21.13	A simple printed track assembly for timelapse photography	Images
	Macbook Pro GPU Reflow	12.10.12	Repair a macbook with a non-happy GPU on the cheap, using low cost fairly easy to find tools.	Images
	Quick Guide to electroplating tin on copper busbar	9.28.12	How to plate copper bus-bars at a low cost	Images
	Quick guide to getting Panda USB Wifi card running in ubuntu 10.04	7.8.12	Quick guide to getting low-cost wifi module up and running in ubuntu 10.04	Images
	3D Print-ARM: SCARA Robot 3D ABS Printer	6.2.2012	Industrial Robot arm converted into 3D ABS printer, using open source hardware, powered by linux cnc (EMC2)	Firmware Video Images
	SHARK KITE: Low Cost Aerial Photography	8.20.11	Kite Aerial photography using a low cost camera + microcontroller	Images Firmware
	ECHO-6: Coms upgrade for ubercheap battery charger	6.20.11	Add rs232 communications and a visual interface for Hobbyking Eco-6 Charger	Images Config Files
	Killercycle: Super Simple Exercise bike game controller	7.10.10	Super Simple DIY exercise bike game controller with usage logging	Images Video
	Speed Dyeing Printed Circuit Boards	3.20.10	Dyeing Printed circuit boards with cheap clothes dye.	Images
	Self Restarting Access Point	2.12.10	Access Point running ddwrt, that is hardware reset daily, by microcontroller.	Images Video
	UV Exposure PCB Box	2.10.10	Box for developing UV PCB's	Images
	Robotic Arm Upgrades	1.2.10	Stepper Motor And Drive controls for SCARA 7575	Images Video
	Taplight Timer Mod	10.5.09	Adding a timer to a taplight with 1 fet	Images Video
	MacBook Upgrade	9.3.09	Quick Powerjack for sketchy macbook	images
	Upgrades to a Power Supply	8.3.09	Adding digital display to legacy analog supply	Images
	Dobsonian Telescope	7.25.09	Making a telescope using plexiglass mirror material	Images
	Imaging Balloon of Science		Taking pictures from 30,000 ft	Images
	LCD Repair for a Dell 1800FP	7.25.09	Fixing an lcd monitor found @ MIT	Images
	ATOMO: The Electric Bike		Electric Bike made from Cruft	Images Video
	Mentoring A HS Engineering Team	5.28.09		Images Video
	Old Camera Film Mod	12.20.08		Images Video
	Tape Casette Adapter		Make a casette tape adapter for connecting your mp3 player to a stereo with tape deck	Images Instructable
	Mechanical legacy MPG Meter		interfacing with an old mechanical speedometer to derrive mpg
	Chem-E-Car 2nd Place @ regionals			Images
	Adding Pwm Audio to an AVR	1.30.08	Exploring the reproduction of audio using a digital pwm output of a microcontroller and some basic rc filters.	Vid linked to: (hackaday) (make) (bricogeek)
	Mack Truck bulldog Eye modification	12.27.07	Adding led eyes to a mack truck hood emblem	Images
	Super simple composite -> uhf converter	11.08.07	A basic composite (television) signal upconverter from VCR components
	Eclub Metal Casting	10.20.07	Creating and testing a blast furnace made with readily available equiptment (with video)	vid
	Intro to avr's	10.20.07	This is a brief intro to bascom avr and how simple it is to quickly interface to an lcd and take an analog measurement.	vid
	E-club Homegrown Projector	9.27.07	A simple lcd projector from an overhead pj, and an old lcd monitor	Images
	First Trip to the MIT Swapfest	9.16.07		Images
	Super Simple Slide Projector	9.03.07	A slide projector made from an old lens assembly and a power box.	Images
	External Jeep Audio Input	8.13.07	Ripping apart my vehicle radio to add an external input	Images
	Unknown LCD Interfacing	8.03.07	Determining the wiring pattern for a powertip pc1602v	img
	Tinkering with B/W video	7.29.07	using a microcontroller to generate b/w TV	img
	Tweaking a power inverter	7.28.07	An instructable for swapping power mosfets on a power inverter	instructable
	Fixing broken USB connector	7.28.07	Repairing a USB mini connector	img
	Homegrown Ammo Box Projector	7.20.07	Building a cheap projector in an Ammo tin	img
	Laptop CD rom -> ide converter	7.14.07	an ide ->laptop ide cd rom adapter	img
	Toothpaste for dinner LCD modification	7.13.07		img
	Bend plexi-glass with nothing more than your iron	7.01.07		img
	Simple, FM transmitter based on the MAX 2607	6.12.07		img
	IED Cannon / projectile motion Project	5.10.07		[vid]
	Chem-E-Car Gen-1
	Rotating Disk Bio Reactor
	Dorm Room Power monitoring system	5.02.07	This project is designed to measure real power consumed, and update the data to a display.
	Wireless (Inductive) cell phone charger	4.04.07	This was my individual project for IED (intro engineering design) 2007.
	Persistance of vision device, for younger brother	1.17.07	This project displays "THOMAS" over the course of an 8 foot circle when spun.
	Electrical Bicycle	1.06.07
	Simple hovercraft (younger bro. science proj.)
	Dorm Email notifier	11.02.06
	The Decomposition Machine	06.12.06	A super ridiculous mulch spinning machine. why limit your mulch to 1 rpm when it yearns for 40?
	All electronics lcd backlight modification	6.10.06	Allelectronics.com sells an awesome graphical lcd, but alas it has no backlight. here's how to add one.
Before the college years (below)
	The DBLOCK		Very rudimentary mp3 player modifications, one of my first complex ee projects.
	The Flying Dutchman Scooter			Image
	Mini scooter		This project was initially created for a biodiesel project (9th grade)