We have all seen the ATM scams where a card skimmer is placed in front of the ATM card slot so that some crooks can capture your card magnetic stripe data. Once they have the electronic data they are now able to duplicate your card. The only other thing that they need is your PIN, this is easy to get from someone looking over your shoulder or a covert
We have seen lots of self balancing robots ever since the Segway was released but this is the first robot that builds on the self balancing principle. This robot is still a work in progress but what they have so far is amazing. Check out the iLean development page for more info about this cool robot from the team over at UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab. "iLean pops up and
If you are building a system that needs to dynamically make decisions about items around it have a look at this Vision Object Detection and Ranging project. I think making this would be an excellent start to building your own Sentry gun! "This particular setup consists of 2 X 3Com Homeconnect Webcams I bought off of Ebay about 4 years ago. They are fairly good cameras for the price
Thanks to FixTunes for providing the prize this week. FixTunes is an easy and powerful program that will fix any missing or misspelled song details, add album artwork, remove duplicates songs and organize your music. This contest will run for one week (Feb 14 – 19, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can
David Merrill demos some very interesting Interactive Computerized Blocks called Siftables. The above video is from the latest TED conference. "Imagine overturning a container of nuts and bolts, then looking through the resulting pile for a particular item. Or spreading photographs out on a tabletop and then beginning to sort them into piles. During these activities we interact with large numbers of small objects at the same time, and they
When you see an amp of this size your mind is automatically filled with the thoughts of huge power. This is not necessarily true though, in this case the amp is a modest 30 watt per channel system. None of the standard consumer amps operate class A since they are not very efficient. The attention to detail and final look is quite amazing. Schematics are provided so that you
If you are still looking for the perfect valentines gift for your special someone look no further. This project is one of the Popular Mechanics 10 DIY Gifts for your Sweetheart this Valentine’s Day. It uses a PIC microcontroller and some RF receiver and transmitters from Spark Fun to detect when the portable unit is close to the base unit. "This project uses an RF receiver module to trigger
