August 2008

Write Letters and Draw Pictures using a Laser

  Setup your digital camera on a tripod, turn off the lights and get out your favorite laser pointer to make some brilliant pictures! It does take some practice to make a good image but when it works the results are great. Thanks to Laura from China for sharing. 🙂 "How to use a laser pointer to draw, to write and to record it? I think it is a very

Stonehenge Robotic Digital Clock

  Steve Norris from Norris Labs has created one of the most interesting clocks I have seen in a long time. This clock would make watching the time go by very enjoyable. "Stonehenge uses a CrustCrawler Smart Arm and a Parallax Propeller chip to display the current time. All the digits needed to display the time are located on cards positioned in a semi-circle around the left and right sides

DIY Flamethrower

  Kids don’t try this one at home! This DIY Flamethrower by Everett Bradford looks dangerous but it does a good job of imitating the fire throwing capability of Pyro from X-Men. "The Pyro System is my final project for a mechanisms class in the spring of 2008. It gives me the power that the X-Men character Pyro has"  

Chapstick Flashlight

  Using a few parts you can make a unique flashlight that very few people will have. "ChapStick Tube Tactile Switch A23 Battery (12V) 470-Ohm Resistor 10mm White LED (28,500mcd, 20mA, 3.5V) Solder Heat Shrink Tubing Wire "N" Battery Holder J-B Weld" Via: Inventor Spot

ArduGame - Arduino Based Handheld Game

  The ArduGame packs all of the power into a small handheld unit that allows you to make your own simple games. The OLE display is responsible for much of the power since it can store many of the graphical images be stored on a memory card that it can read directly. The current game is a proof of concept that shows this game platform could be fun and flexible

Audio Speaker Motor

  Before I saw this Audio Speaker Motor video I had never heard of a Kundel Motor. Looks like an interesting way to create a rotational motion with the small movement of a speaker.      

PongSat - Picaxe Microcontroller Based

  This Picaxe microcontroller project looks great, there is lots of technology packaged into that tiny ping pong ball. Have a look at the PongSat initiative for more information on the purpose of the device. "A PongSat is an experiment that fits inside of a ping pong ball. These ping pong ball ‘satellites’ are flown to the edge of space by balloon or launched in sounding rockets.The PongSats are then