Tobias Hocke has built a cool binary clock that is based around the ATmega8515 microcontroller. Slap in a 9 volt battery and push a few buttons to set the time and you have a clock that very few people can read. Check out his site for a full schematic so you can build your own.
Fire Wire is a way to put on a simple but cool fire display. All you need to do is tie some steel wool to the end of some wire using a slip knot. Then using a lighter light the steel wool. Spinning the burning steel wool produces an impressive (and possibly dangerous) shower of burning metal particles.
Congratulation to the last contest winner. Up again is a compact flashlight for all of your hacking needs. 🙂 This contest will run for this weekend only (November 17- 18, 2007) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an
Sean over at LED MOD has some cool LED car mod products. I would be interested to know how the RPM changing kits sense the RPM. Is there a line that goes to the spark plug or is there some sort of data connection to the car computer? However it works the results are great!
The VGA Test Box project allows a normal microcontroller to output directly to a CRT monitor for testing. “The goal of this project is to create a device that is capable of outputting VGA signals to a CRT monitor in order to display figures, text and characters. Timing is a core essential in this project. If the signal is off by even 1 microsecond, the signal synchronization with the CRT
Johnny Lee a Ph.D. student from Carnegie Mellon Univerisity is working on some interesting projects. Looks like these prototype Foldable Displays are quite advanced. I can think of so many applications for these displays. The second video demonstrates an prototype automatic projector calibration system that is fast and accurate. “Using infrared tracking and projection, we can simulate displays on flexible and foldable surfaces. This allows us to fit a
Doktor Andy is back to his crazy designs! When you can’t easily hack out a signal from a controller why not make a circuit that “looks” at it for you. That is exactly what the Ghetto BPM Detection does. 🙂 “This one is inspired by my experiences with the band and the DJ-Set and…well…you know why =-). Anyway, for already quite a long time I am looking for a way
