About this site:

A number of fun projects have been designed and built in the last few years. We have enjoyed working on them and believe they may be useful to a few who have similar interests. These home made project are shared and given away for free. All projects on this site can be freely copied and enjoyed by any hobbiest or maker. The Maker license is simply the Creative Commons which allows use to use whatever you get here as long as you credit Honey Software LLC. Enjoy!



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Just Say "Hello Google - Garage Door"
Control your garage door from the internet, inside your home, from your car. This project permits you to control see the status of your garage door and open or close it from:
  • A browser
  • An smart phone app
  • An Amazon Echo Device by voice
  • A smart phone by voice
  • From you auto by voice

The schematics, pc board layout, firmware, case, instructions are given in the description.

Wireless telescope control using Bluetooth or Wifi? Cords tangle up every time you use your Meade "go to" Astronomical Telescope and the controller that came with it?
Does the cable that connects the Autostar or Audiostar to the computer gets in the way as the telescope winds around to point to another astronical object?

Here is a project that allow your laptop to connect to the Autostar wirelessly. Yes without wires. This project is a bit complicated to build and may require a small expertise in serial communication but with a little help, anyone can build it. I've provided the schematic and the code. The cost is only about $15, and includes all the components necessary. Why not take a look.

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Wirelessly Control Your Meade Telescope Autostar using Bluetooth or WiFi

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Home Built CNC Router Project

Here is another fun project. I got it into my head that I wanted a cnc router to help with wooden signs and figures.
With a CNC router you can take designs drawn in a CAD program and realize it in wood. The router cuts out the figure drawn in wood and metal, depending on the bit.
In order to accomplish this, I had to design and build the router hardware, design and build the stepper motor electronics, and then write the CNC controller software.
This page describes how this was (actually is being) done.

Learn about an how we built a ham and weather satellite antenna for about $300.

This project was built from the ground up. The frame was welded from soft steel. The motors are controlled with a circuit originally borrowed but modified from the web.
The control board is a standard microcontroller board. and the PC software was written to interface with Satcom available free on the web.

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A look at a Home Built Ham Satellite Antenna


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CAN Bus Project

As a fun project we have interfaced a laptop computer to a Mercedes 2007 CLK350. The interface connects to the CAN bus which controls all the audio video controls,
as well as the door locks and many other functions.
The project uses a commercial CAN bus interface module (a CAN232), the bluetooth firefly and a laptop computer.
Take a look at what was accomplished.
A friend of mine wanted to take a picture of a bluebird flying into his backyard. Unfortunately for him, everytime he went outside with his camera, the bluebird flew away.
He asked me if it was possible to have a motion detector trigger his camera, which is a Canon 5D.
I built this for him. It is a simple project that anyone can make.
If you need one it can be had for just a small effort. Check it out.

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SLR Camera Motion Detector


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Do you have a Ham License and an ICOM radio? Try Icom_OKA®



Computer controlled interface for your CT-17 enabled transceiver or receiver. Works great with the ICOM 706MkII and other ICOM transceivers.