June 13, 2006

Top 5 Spinning LED Displays

1. 32 RGB LED Magic Ball With a bunch of RGB (Red Green Blue) LEDs you can make a real cool display. This one was made using a Microchip 16F628 microcontroller and serial to parallel converter chips since the 16F628 doesn’t have 32 outputs. 2. SPIN Talk about life size. The SPIN display is massive and has a nice effect. “We’ve all seen a train or a car whizzing past

Temperature measurement under Windows/Linux with DS1820 sensor

If you need to do some temperature measurement, this project will allow you to interface an inexpensive yet accurate sensor to your computer. “This small circuit can measure and on the Bildschirm/in of a log file spend/store a temperature exact up to 0.5 C° with a DS1820 Temeratursensor. That e.g. is. practically in order over Internet/Lan temperatures in areas to supervise (server area) or around the outside temperature on an

31 ports USB HUB

I hate running out of USB ports. Some manufactures think they know best and stick a bunch of ports in the back of systems and none in the front. Well with this hack your USB problems will be over for good. Via: Make

Gigantic 5 MB Hard Drive

This is the first hard drive made. It is a whopping 5MB in size, funny thing is that even though drive sizes have increased tremendously the underlying technology is surprisingly similar… “Information is stored, magnetically, on fifty disks which rotate at 1200 rpm. These disks are mounted so as to rotate about a vertical axis, with a spacing of three tenths of an inch between disks. This spacing permits two