Puget Systems built a few versions of a Computer cooled using a Mineral Oil filled Fish Tank. They have run it in various forms for about a year and a half so far! I would have thought that this system would have lasted long enough to marvel at the feat but die a short time later. This project proves my prediction wrong. I don’t think I would recommend it
If you want to check to see what the power is really like that is feeding you high end audio system have a look at this Harmonic Distortion Meter project. It will allow you to have a closer look at the quality of your power. Read more here. "The 3rd harmonic distortion meter has been designed for measuring the quality of AC supply. The meter is built with a
Some of the music that this creation can produce is wonderful! I love the clack clack of the solenoids working in rhythm. Have a look at the build details here. "The Waldflöte project is a MIDI retrofit to a 1890s Gray and Davison pipe organ located in the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh. It converts MIDI input into solenoid drive to directly press the keys on one of the manuals
The Prop Master has created some spooky See Saw Halloween Skeletons that can be setup to greet your guests as they arrive on Halloween. 🙂 It uses a windshield wiper motor to create motion and a simple adjustable wall wart power supply is used to adjust the prop speed. "The wiper motor is attached to a 2×4 with hot glue and tie wraps. The 2×4 is attached to the
Here is another cool iPhone projects that controls a RC car. Is the iPhone the new Swiss Army knife of portable electronics? "Controlling is very easy with the iPhone 3G. It has five buttons, four of them you can use for traditional „driving“ and when you press the last one, it unlocks the accelerometer control in the same way as in many driving games available on AppStore. Realization of
The guys from NerdKits have come up with a neat way to drive a small RC car using their iPhone. The video below goes through some of the details, if you have some similar ideas you can use their code as a starting point since they have made it available! "Layering different simple systems together to perform one complex task is really at the heart of what engineering is
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