Make it happen!

Make it happen!

Make it happen! is dedicated to DIY to its broadest sense. I enjoy the sense of accomplishment when I create something myself, so you can expect to see videos of me building from wood, metal, plastic, acrylic, adding electronics to my builds but also using various software tools, or maybe even cooking...

Some of the projects are practical, some of them are decorative, some are meant to prove a concept, and some are made to impress. I get inspired by the world around me and get enthused to make the ideas reality.

This channel is meant for me to share my projects but also to encourage the viewers to try to make something yourselves!

DIY Neon Sign, but It's Not!

DIY Neon Sign, but It's Not!

DIY Hot Winter Bath

DIY Hot Winter Bath

Dancing Christmas Tree

Dancing Christmas Tree

Making an LED Backlit Sign

Making an LED Backlit Sign

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  • @kingofrivia1248
    @kingofrivia124811 сағат бұрын

    In the summer when my laptop actually shuts down i always óput ice cubes in a ziplock bag on me and than the laptop on that. Cools us both.

  • @SeanPatrickGo
    @SeanPatrickGo2 күн бұрын

    This video was so helpful! I've been trying to learn how to play audio with ardunio by watching many videos, but none were as successful as this one! Thanks! By the way, do you have any tips on increasing audio volume? (mine is fine, but not ideal for my requirements lol). I have a sound amplifier module but I am not sure if this is the best option.

  • @APRICEPRODUCTION
    @APRICEPRODUCTION5 күн бұрын

    Great build, I use to have a novelty pouring drink back when I was a kid. Though the can floated a good 12 inches from the glass giving a longer pour.

  • @NeoWorldScience
    @NeoWorldScience16 күн бұрын

    Great demonstration ✌

  • @kennthbrowne7051
    @kennthbrowne7051Ай бұрын

    you should of make cooling pad with fan with i did my laptop is so much cooler now my cooling not working good ok but make my own my cooling fan i make for my laptop so good

  • @Serge001ful
    @Serge001ful2 ай бұрын

    This video is actually very informative and show how useless the cooler pads can be most of times

  • @vidyesh
    @vidyeshАй бұрын

    Buy Industrial cooling pad of at least 270 CFM or if they are not available, tape Desktop Cooling Fan.

  • @colesyaj_tech
    @colesyaj_tech2 ай бұрын

    If this would be safer it would be way more awesome, but the exposed battery on the back is a bit concerning

  • @jyfyjf
    @jyfyjf3 ай бұрын

    how can I boost the sound, I used 4 ohms, 3 watts

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY3 ай бұрын

    @jmsalvania4355 as I say, the speaker will not give more sound with this setup but some accoustic element will. Make a speaker box or some cone shaped thing to use as a type of megaphone

  • @pipikaganovskyy
    @pipikaganovskyy3 ай бұрын

    For all the people with sharp edges... Obviously it's safe, dude came up with an awesome idea so you can save some money. Just take the Idea and shut up. Leave stupid comments for yourself, if you like it build it if you don't like or are worried about sharp edges (which there's none) go buy a slide for 500 bucks. He's trying to help, be kind.

  • @biggkoz
    @biggkoz3 ай бұрын

    I just bought a used clothes iron at Goodwill for $5 and use that

  • @em0jr
    @em0jr3 ай бұрын

    I got to give it to you. You tried to do something about this and you did. My laptop shuts down when it gets too hot.

  • @ayushimajumder
    @ayushimajumder4 ай бұрын

    Thanks

  • @Funstrix-xl3it
    @Funstrix-xl3it4 ай бұрын

    Thanks For Making This video

  • @farhad6365
    @farhad63655 ай бұрын

    please make a video where i2c eeprom is used to store the audio....

  • @AverageDude1234
    @AverageDude12346 ай бұрын

    Nice vid bro when's a new one coming

  • @serentynym3569
    @serentynym35697 ай бұрын

    when i put my oscilloscope on the pin 9 output, im not getting PWM, it just has supper small spikes in the wave up to 5v but only for a fraction of a microsecond. ive tried everything but i cant seem to get it to work

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY7 ай бұрын

    @serentynym3569 what arduino are you using? Google its pinout and make sure that pin 9 is PWM compatible. Next, write a simple code which continuously produce PWM signal to make sure the problem is not with the switch. The signal will be full scale (5 or 3.3V). Make sure you have ground of the oscilloscope connected, that you use the right channel, etc.

  • @serentynym3569
    @serentynym35697 ай бұрын

    @@MakeithappenDIY i have a Nano, and i just checked and got a PWM signal and it works on Pin 9, working through both the oscilloscope and the speaker

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY7 ай бұрын

    @@serentynym3569 glad to hear that! 👍

  • @serentynym3569
    @serentynym35697 ай бұрын

    @@MakeithappenDIY it worked with a sample of PWM not the proper circuit (testing the pwm to make sure that wasnt at fault)

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY7 ай бұрын

    @@serentynym3569 ok, I see. So might be that your button is wired wrong.

  • @devdarshchandk5922
    @devdarshchandk59227 ай бұрын

    superb well done

  • @HerrHafiz
    @HerrHafiz9 ай бұрын

    do you need the 10 micro farad capacitor if you just using power source from the 9V plug or USB cable? because in my project i dont need extra power source

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY9 ай бұрын

    @HerrHafiz the cap is not essential. I talk about why it is useful in the video but you can live without it

  • @ramim.5856
    @ramim.58569 ай бұрын

    Just close premiere and open it again then select the mast it will show again!

  • @edworld2099
    @edworld20999 ай бұрын

    Try dry ice

  • @trtrtri-18
    @trtrtri-189 ай бұрын

    my macbook air M2 offen become so hot, its hasn't fans ; i don't know if i using ice and place it at bottom of my laptop(not touching) ,will the coolair become water and condense in machine ?

  • @1y0kai
    @1y0kai9 ай бұрын

    Not sure if anyone else has had my issue, the mask outline was outside the preview area....had to drag it back into the preview. The bug was very frustrating

  • @Anonymous-hd7en
    @Anonymous-hd7en10 ай бұрын

    You summed up all things i need to know in one video , thank you very much .

  • @Anonymous-hd7en
    @Anonymous-hd7en10 ай бұрын

    I have one question : if i want to make it stereo not mono should i make audio parameters “ stereo “ and add another speaker with the same setup?

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY10 ай бұрын

    @@Anonymous-hd7en unfortunately it is not that easy. The software library cannot handle stereo, so if you encode is as "stereo" it will either not play anything or play some noise. And even if it did, the quality of this method is so poor that you could not tell the difference. The target aplication is simple buzzers or a couple word phrases. If you want to have good quality stereo, google "arduino audio stereo" and see what comes up. There are bound to be at least a few different methods!

  • @Itsmy2cent
    @Itsmy2cent11 ай бұрын

    Don’t you think if the box had a fan to blow the cold air up to the laptop. It’s not drawing enough air up I’d think.

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY11 ай бұрын

    @Itsmy2cent I don't know... my laptop has two fans sucking air from the bottom. My suspision was that the air just does not get cooled fast enough as it is sucked from the room, through the box and into the laptop. It would be interesting to have some coloured smoke to help visualize the air flow. What do you think?

  • @Itsmy2cent
    @Itsmy2cent11 ай бұрын

    @@MakeithappenDIY yea I’m not at all an engineer etc I just have thoughts lol. Would be cool to have a liquid cooled pad though. And great job on the idea. I’m too lazy

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY11 ай бұрын

    @Itsmy2cent i appreciate your input. Thoughts and ideas is where it all starts! A lot of the times i feel that is the hardest part

  • @yenterary3228
    @yenterary322811 ай бұрын

    Hello, does anyone know if an 1W 8ohm speaker will work with this? Some people said this will fry my arduino

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY11 ай бұрын

    @yenterary3228 an argument can be made that if you put the speaker between an arduino pin and ground (it is the same as shorting arduino to ground through an 8ohm resistor), you will damage the arduino. 5V/8ohm is 625mA which is higher than max rated current of 40mA. But I hope noone is connecting the speaker like this! The video instructs using a transistor amplifier. The NPN resistor has a current gain of anything above 50 which means that the current into the transistor will be in the worst case 625mA/50 = 13mA. Also the current is pulsed so arduino can handle more than 40mA. So, I think you are safe :)

  • @yenterary3228
    @yenterary322811 ай бұрын

    @@MakeithappenDIYIm halfway through your tutorial and im using an npn 2n2222A and that apparently has a current gain of 75v, even better

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY11 ай бұрын

    @yenterary3228 this number (75) is highly unreliable. You can buy 10 identical transistors and they all have a differen current gain. What is more, this number changes like crazy with temperature. just by touching the transistor with a finger you raise the temperature enough for the gain to change by ~10. In good circuits the current is set by resistors and kept constant with negative feedback so the current gain does not matter at all. But here I just show a simple circuit that anyone can build :)

  • @yenterary3228
    @yenterary322811 ай бұрын

    @@MakeithappenDIY I see, thank you for your time! :D

  • @tribleproductoin9432
    @tribleproductoin943211 ай бұрын

    солнце просто

  • @treefarm3288
    @treefarm328811 ай бұрын

    The gaps in the boards section seem small, but you added the rope and things, and your children are small. Do they prefer one section, now they've tried them all out?

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY11 ай бұрын

    @treefarm3288 when they were just getting started they liked the rope net and the middle section which they just used as a ladder. As they grew, they wanted a challenge and opted for the climbing stones and the rope.

  • @tanishmaurya
    @tanishmaurya Жыл бұрын

    thankyou thats actually works

  • @homer2384
    @homer2384 Жыл бұрын

    thanks!!

  • @WillyLo
    @WillyLo Жыл бұрын

    Awesome! This has worked more consistently than an other solution I've come across, thank you!!

  • @beerajsaikia
    @beerajsaikia Жыл бұрын

    Well actually you can add 2 cpu cooling fans at the back and add ice water so the cooling fans will suck air from behind and the laptop will suck air from the ice cooled water ... Actually i should do this hope this works our 😂

  • @sunlightpictures8367
    @sunlightpictures8367 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant!

  • @Nikkins
    @Nikkins Жыл бұрын

    didn't work :c

  • @deathknight99938
    @deathknight99938 Жыл бұрын

    Hello! I ve been trying to do this and im kinda stuck. What should i do if by doing the led test on pin 9, the led blinks only once? Also, instead of using a speaker , im trying to use in my project a 3.5 mm jack instead. Any idea how i might be able to do that? I found a trrs jack module that might help Edit: succeded in making the led blink however i still dont get any sound. Perhaps its from the speaker? I have an 8 ohm 1 W

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY Жыл бұрын

    @deathknight99938 Hey, I am glad you can see data coming out of your Arduino now! It is hard for me to advise anything other to what the video already suggests. Make sure that your amplifier is wired correctly; the speaker you are using should be OK. As for the 3.5mm jack, it is essentially just a wire so it will work. Again, just make sure you wire everything correctly: connect the L and R channels to the amplifier supply and connect the ground of the 3.5mm jack to the collector of your NPN and this should be OK. Good luck!

  • @fatimahadi2526
    @fatimahadi2526 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! Really Amazing.

  • @sydneykim5860
    @sydneykim5860 Жыл бұрын

    If none of these worked for you, try moving the playhead around on your timeline. That worked for me!

  • @muzan33
    @muzan33 Жыл бұрын

    Love you bro

  • @m3lateef
    @m3lateef Жыл бұрын

    should we use electrolytic capacitor or ceramic capacitor ?

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY Жыл бұрын

    It is hard to find electrolytic capacitors past 1uF so for power supply decoupling you normally see electrolytic capacitors. Having said that, it does not matter. For low frequency filtering both will perform the same. The diferences between different types show up in high frequency filtering were equivalent series resistance and inductance start to matter. Actually you might see sometimes in high quality audio circuits that power supply is filtered using 10uF electrolytic cap together with a much smaller ceramic cap in parallel. This is because electrolytic caps though great for low frequency filtering do poorer job filtering high frequency

  • @m3lateef
    @m3lateef Жыл бұрын

    @@MakeithappenDIY Ok thanks. I will use two 10uF electrolytic caps for miicrocontroller's power pairs

  • @khaliq-fg1bb
    @khaliq-fg1bb Жыл бұрын

    Can i use BC547B Transistor instead of NPN?

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY Жыл бұрын

    You should be able to use BC547B. Just make sure you get the pin names right. Note, NPN refers to the way the transistor is made (NPN or PNP) whereas BC547B is a name given by a manufacturer. I.e. there are multiple names for the different flavours of NPN and PNP transistors. BC547B happens to be NPN type so it will work.

  • @khaliq-fg1bb
    @khaliq-fg1bb Жыл бұрын

    @@MakeithappenDIY Hey thank you so much it's working for me !

  • @burtburtist
    @burtburtist Жыл бұрын

    i was just about to give up and reinstall, you saved me thanks bro

  • @katiethalman2514
    @katiethalman2514 Жыл бұрын

    Are there instructions for the wood frame?

  • @radiospank
    @radiospank Жыл бұрын

    thanks, almost bought another iron but this seems very reasonable for me.

  • @thedoubledropdown
    @thedoubledropdown Жыл бұрын

    Damn, lots of time waiting for the right adapters. I hate that electronics depreciate so quickly. Great build

  • @Camilamartinez-zx8uk
    @Camilamartinez-zx8uk Жыл бұрын

    loveee it haha ur funny too 😻😍

  • @matteodoveri5170
    @matteodoveri5170 Жыл бұрын

    Hi ! I'm struggling reproducing my file audio , I think because of the way you convert itself. I'm italian and the website you used is down so I'm very disappointed and I cannot find an audio converter that make me able to change bit resolution channel ecc. I think the problem is here but I don't know how to fix it. I wish you can help me and my project. Thanks

  • @MakeithappenDIY
    @MakeithappenDIY Жыл бұрын

    Hi! I have a link to my github page for this project in the description. It has a like.wav file under audio_samples. This is a converted .wav file I used for the video. Try using that. You will be able to confirm if the problem is with the conversion. Hope this helps! Good luck :)

  • @limes2912
    @limes2912 Жыл бұрын

    omigod it really worked thank you!!!

  • @rfsji
    @rfsji Жыл бұрын

    thank u

  • @ericm3309
    @ericm3309 Жыл бұрын

    Good video, thank you. I'm with you I can't bring myself to pay a ton of money when I can build it for a fraction of the cost.

  • @narendrachandradas2509
    @narendrachandradas2509 Жыл бұрын

    Good one

  • @alanibowen7327
    @alanibowen7327 Жыл бұрын

    This cost me $400 in repairs for my computer 😭