Electrical fixes are seriously no joke. Being able to open up a device and look at wires and circuit boards and determine what it needs to be fixed is a skill very few people in this world have. But there is another group of people who do it just for fun. These people build and create their own electronic creations for their own benefit, and it’s truly amazing. Whether it’s creating a box that tells you when someone’s home, or an automatic fan to filter your workshop, these skills are worth appreciating. Here are 20 DIY electronics that you need to see.
1. This guy was tired of unplugging his speakers for headphones on zoom meetings, so he designed this audio switch.
2. The coding for this E-paper weather display must be intense.
3. He was tired of buying compressed air.
4. He left his charger at work so he had to improvise.
5. When your drill motor dies, it becomes a portable PSU.
6. What can you do with these old headphones with an AUX jack, make a portable charger.
7. Don’t buy a new E-bike battery, just wire a bunch of mini batteries together.
8. Could you build a ChatGPT voice-activated smartwatch?
9. Yeah, we’ll just leave it to the pros and buy a CPU.
10. Building your own amp gives some serious perspective to how intense building electronics is.
11. A DIY MP3 player, because why not?
12. It isn’t a magnificent soldering station, but it’s a soldering station.
13. This is a ping pong LED clock.
14. Imagine being able to make your own RC car.
15. We’ve seen a lot of amazing things, but a DIY 3D printer takes the cake.
16. You know what to do with spare electronics, make an action figure.
17. He built an automated irrigation system.
18. This device automatically turns on his wood shop air filter when it hears a saw.
19. This box shows who’s home based on the distance their phone is from it.
20. His girlfriend got a hold of his soldering sponge.