another week has gone by and we hope you’ve been happily hacking away in your underground lairs. If not, here’s some motivation that didn’t rather make it to the front page this week:

[Razr] utilized a CFL ballast to replace the mechanical one in his fluorescent tube light fixture.

To make the drawers of his workbench a lot more remarkable [Rhys] utilized the faceplates from some servers.

This week saw some modifications in the pastime PCB market. appears like BatchPCB is being offered to OSH Park starting may 1st. [Thanks Brad]

[Rich Olson] shouldn’t have any difficulty getting out of bed now that his alarm clock actually shreds cash if he doesn’t shut it off.

We dealt with the exact same issue as [Kremmel] when we very first got a Raspberry Pi, no USB keyboard. We gotten one but he just hacked his laptop to work. [Thanks Roth]

You may keep in mind that publish about a self-propelled snowboard. Here’s a similar job that utilizes a screw-drive system.

And finally, if you requirement assist reading a quadrature encoder from a microcontroller this prolonged technical publish is the location to look.