Vern Graner wrote an interesting article in the latest Nuts and Volts magazine that goes over some pneumatic basics. Best of all he interfaces the pneumatics to some electronics so that us electronic people can understand it. It’s so true that when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. I can think of lots of times that I would think the obvious solution was a
Weiss from Volunteer Lab Rats posted a cool picture of an old Electric Cannon in the forum. As you know we love coil guns around here! I didn’t realize that this idea had been around for this long though. I would love to see how the coil sequencing circuit was designed back then, I am thinking it would be completely mechanical. It could be as simple as the projectile
Thanks to BudgetGadgets.com for providing the cool prize this week. The USB Mini Fridge Refrigerator Drink Cans Cooler/Warmer will be a welcome addition to the desk of any true geek. 🙂 In addition to the prize Budget Gadgets is also providing a 5% discount coupon to all Hacked Gadget readers, simply use the coupon code AM5OFF4 when checking out. This contest will run for one week (Feb 7- 12, 2009)
