I have seen a few articles about using these Fisher & Paykel Smart Drive washing machine motors as a starting point to make a wind generator. Once modified it looks to be a great inexpensive means to make electricity. Randy’s Workshop has some good documentation on how to modify these motors to be used as a generator. "This Fisher & Paykel Smart Drive Permanent Magnet motor is comprised of
The guys over at Flightography have a great rig for dropping water bombs! What makes it even better is their high quality camera that catches all the action. I can think of lots of fun and sneaky applications for this plane. 🙂
Chris Harrison has done some research on using scratching as an input device. In this video he demonstrates how simply scratching a wall or a desk could have some simple and inexpensive applications. Could you imagine controlling your room lights by scratching anywhere on the wall in the room you want to control? Or a coffee table that has a sensor so that you could use it to control
If you are an audiophile this Moving Magnet Phono Preamplifier Build may be of interest to you, the schematic is provided so that you can simply build your own if you desire. The circuit board looks like it has great separation to keep the audio quality high. "While looking through the local (Jaycar) electronics store catalogue I came across a Magnetic Cartridge Preamp Kit (Cat. No. KC5433). It uses
Talk about extending the playability of Guitar Hero and Rock Band! This hack allows you to use real instruments to play the popular games instead of using the cheap plastic instruments that come with the game. Many people say that necessity is the mother of invention and I think this is the case here since it doesn’t look like this hack would have been done if Egyokeo hadn’t hurt
Based on the White Screen Wiimote hack by Johnny Lee the ECC has developed a very cool way to mashup music at their shows. Thimbles with LEDs in them allow them to press virtual buttons on the huge sound control board. "It’s perfect for our Wheel Of Mashup shows, which depend on an overloaded setup of Ableton Live. Because it’s overloaded, it’s very difficult to mouse quickly and accurately
Rob Miles has put together some software and complimenting hardware that lets to control some Christmas lights using software that is monitoring the internet. In this case it will turn on when a new post appears on his Web site. He uses shift registers to give the project the ability of controlling a ton of LEDs using a small number of controller pins. "If you know C# and love
