If you have ever thought about taking some arial photographs this site describes two versions that is sure to give you some ideas for your own. "The outputs from Air Pressure, Temperature, Wind Speed, and Battery Voltage Sensors are feed in to the inputs of a PicAxe 18X. It Processes the raw sensor inputs, and then triggers the Camera (using a Servo) and Transmits the Raw Data. A Receiver
The prize will help you out on your next camping trip, you can never have enough flashlights (speaking from experience). 🙂 This contest will run for one week (July 27 – Aug1, 2008) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer in the comments.
I haven’t seen anything like this Mossalibra, Interactive Dance Game before. It is an interesting concept that could catch on if some venues think out of the box and try it out. "Mossalibra is an interactive game installation, operated solely by intuitive human gestures. While dancing to surrounding music, the user (represented in pixelated form as a pure gesture) can mimic a given set of gestures in order to
If you like laser projects this one looks quite well done. "This is one of my experimental Dance/Trance songs from 2000. I build laser systems for fun so I have put together pictures and clips from assembly to a full working system to go with the song. I know the song gets really annoying after awhile sorry. Iv’e been getting a lot of email asking how the projector works
We have seen lots of Projector Screen hacks over the last few years, this one demos the power of the system quite well. It doesn’t take much hardware to provide some fantastic results! The video game gun use is a natural extension of the technology. "The basic idea is really simple: a program running on the PC will process the images viewed from the webcam, find the position of
Baccus61 has documented some of his cool DIY Laser Etching Projects. He makes etching an image on a round bottle simple! After the jump are a few of my favorite videos he has created. "My new rotary attachment is finally ready after a couple of weeks in the making (I didn’t spend too much time building it though) It’s a Vexta 5 phase stepper motor coupled to a 50:1
This Basic Stamp Microcontroller Based Garage Parking Assistant may be overkill for the application but that is what makes it fun. 🙂 What fun would it be to hang a tennis ball from the ceiling when you can use technology to give you a traffic light that represents your optimal parking distance. "The Garage Parking Assistant makes it easy to pull in the garage by signaling you with a
