Thanks to Mountain Dew Voltage for sponsoring the contest this week, they are having a contest themselves that you may want to check out. There will be two winners who will get a some Mountain Dew Voltage product and a Voltage T-shirt . This contest will run for one week (April 25 – 30, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured
I love these little remote controls, this is the same one that I used in the Atari 2600 TV Remote project. Sure with one of these devices you can take control of a TV but the problem is that you are standing there when you do it. With this Automatic Spy TV Remote you can hide the device and have it automatically drive people nuts. It will randomly turn
Metal working is a true art. TheWorkshop.ca has a good demonstration start to finish of a DIY Knife Making build. It shows that making a knife is much more than cutting out a shape and sharpening it. "The blade surface is hand sanded and polished with compound to remove the tinting that resulted from the "Tempering" step. I opted not to use any power tools for fear of building
Our mad scientist friend William Beaty demonstrates how you can make a very cold substance which acts like liquid nitrogen in your kitchen. With this creation you will be able to freeze and shatter flowers, grapes, leaves. Basically all of the demonstrations that we have seen done with liquid nitrogen in high school. The only item that you probably will have to leave the house for is some dry
We recently featured some of the new hard drive clocks along with some links to some other designs. Turns out we missed one. AP Digital Light created a Hard Drive Clock which is truly a work of art. It uses a PIC18F2320 Microcontroller and a real time clock module from Spark Fun to keep things in sync. The result of his toner transfer method of board etching is about
Matthias Wandel came up with a wonderful solution to making accurate cuts on his table saw. Best of all this system was built from scrap parts from a junk bin. Watch the video to see this cool machine in action. Make sure you check out the rest of his wood working tips, tricks and projects here. "Going through my junk bin, I found a circuit board with 11 power
You may remember the CNC Hexapod Robot that was featured last year. This Robotic Drawing Car doesn’t carve its work but it rather uses a pen to draw. The brain is based on the At mega 16 microcontroller. A schematic and code is available on the site. Engligh translated project.
