Gary Eneberg has made a great looking pair of speakers and documented the steps. For a total cost of $430 US it is a fantastic deal for such a nice piece of work. "The enclosures were made using 3/4" Baltic Birch plywood except for the front baffle which consists of two pieces of 1/2" plywood laminated together. The inner piece of the front baffle fits tightly into the cabinet
Just a reminder to catch the first episode of Prototype This. It should be good!
Tim Robinson wanted to know how much energy his household was spending on gas and electricity. How convenient was it that the gas meter that was installed has a rotating magnet! A switch that is commonly used for door alarm switches looks like the perfect match. Have a look at the project site for some details of his gas and electrical monitoring solution. "The goal was to find a
The WowWee Rovio robot looks like a great robot on its own but with some extra software from our friends at Robots Rule it can be controlled using a Wiimote! "To run Robodance in conjunction with the WowWee Rovio spy robot you will need A personal computer running Windows 2000 or better. If you want to control your Rovio over the Web with a Nintendo Wii Remote you will
These three creations are not exactly Zoetrope creations. But they take the idea to the next level. The first example uses a record player to turn the work at a known rate, then by viewing the piece at a particular frame rate the background of the image appears to be static and the objects seem to interact! The videos below are Burning Man creations by Peter Hudson that use
This experiment is one of those things that looks too simple but it has been proven by Mythbusters to be true. A large container is filled with sawdust, a road flare is stuck in the top and some compressed air is released in the bottom of the sawdust container. The results are amazing! I would have been one of the skeptics if I didn’t see the recreation by Mythbusters.
Nuxie1 has a new Frequency Counter project kit called FunCount, looks like it would be fun to put together. If you act now you can get it on sale for only $20! Kit Page "This kit includes everything needed to build a frequency counter capable of measuring frequencies from 1Hz to over 2MHz. Perfect for use with the FunGen also available. The kit uses the ATTiny2313 Atmel Microcontroller. The
