July 18, 2007

Disposable Camera Mods

Our friends over at DIY Live have come up with a top 10 list of Disposable Camera Mods, my favorite is the mini rail gun mod. ” This is a fun and non-dangeros project for those people who like to throw projectiles magnetically. It simply works by placing a ferromagnetic projectile at one end of a coil and pulsing some power in it. The trick is to switch off power

Speech Recognition Using FPGA Technology

Carlos, David and Kanwen from McGill University developed a cool voice recognition system using a FPGA development system. Video after the jump. “My team (David and Kanwen) and I implemented a speech recognition system on an FPGA development board (Altera DE2 Board) for the Design Project course at McGill (ECSE 949). We did this in two step: first we wrote a prototype for the algorithm in MATLAB (I’ll may be

iPod LED Lighting Hack

Tired of your stock iPod? This iPod LED Lighting Hack adds some LED to an iPod to jazz it up when playing some tunes. While you are at it, have a look at another Acid mod hack. Video after the jump. “Latest is my iPod modification. Clear casing and some leds on a volt amp for some lighting efects.” Thanks F00 f00