This PIC microcontroller based wind gauge interfaces with USB. It is still a work in progress but looks to be almost complete. “There are various methods of measuring the speed of a wind. With this equipment, a hemispherical window cup is rotated and the method of measuring wind velocity at that number of rotations is used. The measured number of rotations is sent to a personal computer with a USB
Mount this camera to the bottom of a Frisbee and let the recording begin. I can just imagine the cool video this could capture when tossed into a good strong wind. “Ever thought of riding a Frisbee on flight? Well, I never did(maybe I was never too stoned!) but Adam Sutcliffe, a graduate from the Royal College of Art apparently did. As it was kind of insane, he came up
If you are into telescopes and DIY projects this project is for you. Check out the full plans for the Trackball Telescope! “Jerry Oltion calls it a trackball telescope, and he’s distributing plans for its design free of charge. Parts needed: a rubber ball, a bucket, some plastic pipe, a Bic pen shell and assorted hardware. The trackball is amazingly easy to set up. Just put the mount on a
Laptop technology has come a long way in the past few years. Is the indestructible laptop around the corner? Probably not, but this APC model is about as close as we can come today.
This is a simple way to add some functionality to Winamp. “Nowadays, winamp have full support to keyboard shortcuts. But some time, when winamp didn’t have this feature, I was thinking in some way to make a easy way to change music by simply pressing one button, it would make things faster and would help me to change music during games. So I decided to make a external control painel,
Just what I need in my house, a man made tornado. Based on these plans this work of art was created. ” I built a tornado machine using instructions from www.weather-photography.com and doing some of my own modifications. It works really well! I took a video of it at different angles, closeups, and even inside the storm just to show you how cool this thing is! it was hard work,
The Vacuum Elevator is an interesting way of lifting a small elevator cab. “When the piston gear depressurizes the area inside the cylinder above the vacuum elevator cab, the cab is then lifted by higher atmospheric pressure below the cab. The inside of the vacuum elevator cab always remains at the atmospheric pressure. As air pressure is lowered above the cab, the cab is lifted. A valve regulating inflow
