Micro Monitor
Author: Jared Bouck Project Cost: $20.00 – $25.00 Est Construction Time: 1.5 – 2.5 Hr Required Skill Level: You’re going to need to be able to solder… Overview: This is a project I did a few years ago that I am dusting off for all you makers out there. This …
Algae Research Lab
Author: Jared Bouck Project Cost:200.00 – 400.00 Est Construction Time: 1.5 Hr Required Skill Level: Scissors and Screwdriver Overview: I’ve been playing with algae and Bio reactor design for the past few years and I’ve had a lot of fun doing it. Our sister site algaegeek.com we have several different …
Arduino Automated Nursery
Author: Jared Bouck Project Cost:150.00 Est Construction Time: 1.5 Hr Required Skill Level: Basic Soldering Skills Overview: This project is near and dear to the sprout board crew. Ultimately this concept was the genesis of a flexible platform with many applications. As our designs evolved we realized the tremendous opportunity …
Simple Solder Fume Extractor
Project Cost:20.00 Est Construction Time: .5 Hr Required Skill Level: Scissors and Screwdriver Overview: With all the inventing and tinker and I do I tend a burn through equipment faster than most people. So when my $100 solder fume extractor gave up the ghosts I wasn’t really willing to …
The Sprout Board
Overview: Recently we designed and produced a very interesting product called the “Sprout Board”. This kit based circuit board project is designed to help the arduino platform take a step towards more practical final product based projects. This circuit board acts as more of a motherboard than a shield and …
Open Source Server Room Environmental Monitor
Author: Jared Bouck Project Cost:150.00 Est Construction Time: 1.5 Hr Required Skill Level: Basic Soldering Skills Overview: This project is near and dear to the sprout board crew. Ultimately this concept was the genesis of a flexible platform with many applications. As our designs evolved we realized the tremendous opportunity …
Ultimte Geek Scooter
While working for a former employer I had the opportunity to use my 20th level geek skills to produce an extremely high density mobile computing platform in a scooter for a promotional campaign we created for a client we had at the time Plaza Cycles. The end result was a …
Laser Arduino Instrument
Overview: So this project has been lying around for a while and I finally found some time to write it up. I was inspired with several of the other popular microcontroller based laser instruments that have been floating around on the web over the last year. Ultimately I wanted to …
DIY 40 Inch Silver Reflector
Overview: So photography is not only a hobby of mine, but also more or less absolute necessity for what I do here on invent geek. That being said I have always been appalled at the high prices for photography equipment and accessories and I find myself thinking that I could …
Arduino Strobe Algae
Overview: For some time I have been experimenting with algae and it has become a bit of a passion of mine. Enough of a passion in fact that I have built a sister site to InventGeek.com called AlgaeGeek.com where I have more of a focus on reactor designs that I …
DIY 42 Inch Silver Photo Umbrella
Overview: This project is the next in a series of DIY Photography Studio Equipment projects we are doing to improve the quality of the imagery on our site as well as in preparation for the launch of our new sister site dedicated to photography equipment projects. The next major component …
Paintball Turret Plans
With the launch of the new inventgeek.com site at long last we are pleased to announce the availability of the paintball turret plans for download. We have meticulously put these plans together for the version 1 paintball turret as well as several videos of how to assayable the project. To …
Diamond Grease
Anybody who is a true computer hardware enthusiast these days knows that keeping your CPU from overheating while pushing it to its limits is one of the most important concerns. Thermal compounds like arctic silver are the front line of that defense, conducting the heat directly from the CPU to …
Paint Ball Turret
This project has been in the works for over two years, making it the longest project we have done to date. When I originally started this project it was more or less a typical brain dump style invent geek project. Through the last two years of research this paintball turret …
Ionic Wind Heat Sink
Just when I thought I didn’t have another ionic wind cooling project left in me I was more or less overwhelmed with emails from our last version that really let me know there is strong interest in this type of system cooling. So I decided to put one more idea …