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
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
Rafael Mizrahi has put some serious work into this Guitar Hero Robot called Guitar Heronoid. If you are not very good at Guitar Hero this robot may be what you need to get some high scores. If this hack it a bit to hard, why not go wireless first. “The robot is divided into two basic parts, “brain” and “body”. The “brain” is in charge of detecting and analyzing the
Kipkay has made another one of his videos. 🙂 In this video he straps a small rocket motor to a toy car. When the motor is activated it goes off with a blast, Kipkay estimates that it is going 1800 scale miles per hour!
Jerome Demers from Quebec has put together a great article. If you are looking to get into robot building this Robot Building Instructable could be a step in the right direction. The parts could be scrounged up for free from things you have laying around or they can be purchased inexpensively.
Guess what, another nice Nixie clock! Nonentity posted his cool Nixie clock in the Hacked Gadgets Forum. Nonentity has documented the entire build in great detail on his site. Some of the macro pictures are spectacular!
This RFID bookshelf looks like it could be used to automate finding books on a large scale. This idea reminds me of the RFID enabled Wine Rack. “Willem and Walter demonstrate what an intelligent bookshelf is capable of. The intelligent bookshelf demo is made as part of Willem and Walter’s graduation assignment at Working Tomorrow (www.workingtomorrow.nl), the graduation program of LogicaCMG (www.logicacmg.nl) in Holland. ” Via: Make
