Most of us have a bunch of these old mice laying around collecting dust. If you didn’t make some cool art with your mice last week here is another idea to recycle it into a cool project. This article will show you how to turn an ordinary mouse into a flashlight, perfect for looking into computer cases that always seem to be in the darkest corner of the room. You
Check out the cool coil gun projects at Another Coilgun Site. Near the end of the video you will see the coil hand gun! This thing is computer controlled using a microcontroller for enhanced operation. “At last!! A functioning example of the combined wants in a coilgun pistol. You always see posts for this and that, read how if it could do such and such and the inevitable plans on
We have all see Nixie Tube clocks and at first this might seem like it is simply another. Well that is where you would be wrong. This clock is made using only tubes! “Also cold-cathode tubes, which found use in former times gladly in ring counters (organs, etc.), were not intended. The counting stages should be developed only with completely classical flip-flop stages. The 1-second pulse should be won most
Here is a nice simple LED light chaser from the Hacked Gadgets Forum. There is a full schematic provided, I am not sure if the author will be providing the chip code however. “4 functions triggered by the length of time control button is pressed. 1. Tap once to change patterns. 2. Press and hold for 0.5 seconds until 2 Leds start flashing then release. Unit will power off. 3.
Here is a cool mod to add a USB port to your alarm clock. “To add our USB power port, we’ll steal some DC voltage from the clock. We are going to run power through a LM 7805 voltage regulator to take it down to 5 volts. Adding a 220uF capacitor between the output and the ground can help smooth out the voltage if that’s a concern. We referenced the
