Genius Do-It-Yourself Projects Made By Engineers

An Engineer has everything he or she needs to pull off successful DIY projects, the expertise to build things and the creativity to find solutions to daily problems.

So let’s see how they modified home appliances and give them new uses.

This Engineer Made A Smart Screen To Put Newspaper On The Wall

This man works as a Machine Learning and Robotics engineer for Google X and what he made is a digital newspaper display that can be mounted on the wall. The invention is called Paper and it is simple yet appealing to the eyes.

Max Braun, the man behind Paper shared the whole process of making the display as well as his choice of material on onezero.medium.com. He said that his invention did exactly one thing, show the front paper of a newspaper on an e-display.

Paper collects the latest front-page and converts it into a suitable image format so that Braun can get ready for work all while reading the latest updates of the day.

This Engineer Made Her Own Cell Phone With No Distraction

Justine Haupt took an old rotary dial phone and turn it into a distraction-free cell phone. She also shared how you can make your own and what materials you should use on her website.

The dial was taken from an old Western Electric Trimline phone, add in some needed electronics, and a modern cellular chipset and you are ready to go.

Since there is no ready-made body that can house her invention, Haupt had to 3D- printed one.

This Man Made An Explosive Alarm Clock

This trip-wire alarm is very easy to make as it requires only a clothes peg, a tripwire, an AA battery, and some other components.

When the string is pulled loose, a circuit will be completed and the alarm will sound. After that, a flammable substance is ignited by the tripwire to send whoever trip on the wire a message.

This Engineer Made A Skateboard That Runs On Electricity

Enjoy riding a skateboard without powering it yourself cannot be easier when you can motorize with a few simple components. All you need is an old skateboard, a power drill, a brass wire wheel brush, and a handful of other parts.

This Invention Can Help You Charge Your Phone With A Fan

If your phone constantly runs out of power while you are commuting by a bike, you will love this invention, which makes use of an old computer fan.

When the bike picks up speed, the fan will turn and generate electricity for your cell phone.

Building the system is simple as it takes only one hour to complete.

Recycle An Old Plastic Bottle To Make A Vacuum Cleaner

A vacuum cleaner is not very cheap so why don’t build your own? The whole project is simple to make, requires only the components most people have around the house, and you do not need to be a qualified engineer to build one. The trickiest part is to get a motor.

It cannot replace a vacuum cleaner entirely but you will definitely have fun making it.

How About This Fire And Ice-Powered Emergency Light?

What do you think of an emergency light powered by ice and fire? Intriguing right?

This light has a thermoelectric module or you may know it as a Peltier element that can generate power with a temperature gradient. The underlying principle for it to work is the Seebeck effect.

Besides the thermoelectric module, the emergency light project requires some other electrical components and food tins.

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