It’s the though that counts right, well if you get your special someone this gift for the holidays I am not sure you will be around to celebrate next years holiday season. 🙂 “Each bug is a real bug, with it’s carbon guts removed, and metal/silicon guts put in their place by artist Mike Libby. He “spent his youth developing a keen understanding of the material world looking under rocks,
The bridge is a neat device. None of the technology is not revolutionary but the tiny package is impressive. “When it is scanning the text in books or other presswork, it translates the text into braille, which is then displayed on its special screen for the blind to touch. At the same time, “Bridge” saves the text into the internal hard disk to be read later. In addition, the product
Great use of a sponge and some guitar electronics! Reminds me of this project. “I made a “home made Drum” out of a guitar pickup and a string installed within a piece of sponge. I use Reaktor to translate the signal with its amplitube to snare drums. Each punch, with sound a snare drum (not the same snare all the time, it changes after every puch) and it has
I might have to have a look to see what power tools of mine can be converted into a racer. “It’s a rocket. Stuck through the back of a skull, sitting on an aging belt sander rigged to a pair of sawed-off skis. And it can haul butt down a track. Scott David and his 10-year-old son, Cal, built El Diablo del Muerte (“the Devil of Death”) for last
This bike POV uses a PIC microcontroller to control 32 LEDs. The hand wiring and soldering on the back of the board is amazing, those are all surface mount components on a standard perf board! It uses a 16f628 chip and the source code has been provided. Update: Video added “The whole thing is based on a pic16f628A, with some SMD mosfets to power the led’s. Those are very
You can spend $50 on a store bought golf training aid, but Zedomax shows you how to make your own for about $5. There is also a video of the thing in action on his site. “It’s getting near Christmas time and I needed to prepare some Christmas gifts for my parents. Since my Dad does not get much time on the golf course these days, I figured I
Play the video to check out the cool effects of the VGA Expropriator. There are lots more videos and pictures in the creators site. “Video synthesis tends to be dominated by digital technology these days however analogue video synthesis techniques can still offer a great many advantages in terms of aesthetics, performance, simplicity, and adaptability. Not to mention the non-linear surprises which can come from working in the analogue
