Great idea but I wonder how much practical use most of these will get. Well I guess lots of people want to see the wall behind my monitor. 🙂 If you are looking for other cool webcam things check out Phillip Torrone playing with the Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP. “Webcams finally got an upgrade with the SOIOS 55-Cam 360. It has a 0.35-megapixel sensor and FireWire support. With 360-degree, 270-degree,
This robot looks like an interesting project. If you can wait for a bit they will have some control boards available for sale soon. “Looks as if some enterprising hacker has built himself a robot that runs off a Nintendo DS handheld. The proposed specs are here: # 20 Digital Input/Output for multipurpose use. # Customizable with you own Motors and Sensors # Wireless programming and controling. # You can
Nice small gadget but I can see problems in the future when trying to deploy more horsepower to the desktop. It is a nice way to reclaim some space in a cramped cubical though. “The Jack PC may not turn out to be a jack-of-all-trades but still it stands apart with its breakthrough power consumption and miniature size. Jade Integration will roll out its skinny Jack next month that fits
Want to rule the world? Sprinkle some AI into some computers and give it a try. “My idea to expose this naive, simple-minded “brain” to the Internet and collect in this way an average internet personality was probably a little cruel, thousands and thousands of people were talking to the “kid” without any moderation, but the result that I got at the end was amazing. After being on-line for three
Ryan from Googlemarks brought us the NERF Rifle a short time ago. Well he is back at it, this time he has built a microcontroller based capacitive sensor. “Capacitive sensors have historically been regarded with fear and hostility among hobbyists. They’re notoriously flaky, unreliable, and difficult to design. Further, they traditionally fall in the “analog domain” which is something the casual microcontroller hobbyist can sometimes wince at. They usually require
If you are looking to play around with X10 technology, this project may be what you are looking for. “I was looking for a cheap way to interface my PIC microcontroller projects with my X10 home automation system. Plug-in serial X10 interfaces have to be … plugged into the wall, so I thought a good alternative would be to hack a wireless X10 remote. It worked… here are the details.”
This product reminds me of a show I saw many years ago about strange washrooms. One public washroon was in a busy street and all four walls were LC. When the door is unlocked the glass is perfectly see through but as soon as the door is locked all four LC walls turn white. If someone finds a link please post it… “Yesterday Micro Reactor System was kind enough to
