This guitar looks quite good with some blue LEDs installed. I think a great next mod for this guitar would be to make the LEDs flash in time with the music. "Stuff used: – Acrylic Guitar – Blue LEDs – A Rocker Switch salvaged from a broken laptop power supply – A bunch of Icicle sticks which were saved up (I knew they might come in handy) – Soldering
Jeremy Mayer has some interesting artistic capabilities. Most artists work in oils or water colors, Jeremy works in old typewriters! Via: Oddee
Andy from Trademark Laser let us know about this Piezo Drum Kit a while ago. Alex sent in some pictures of his finished product. It looks great but that’s how it goes when you have a laser cutting business. 🙂
Bob Davis has cranked up the power on his can crusher. By adding a defibrillator capacitor his Can Crusher is now supercharged! He has also provided the schematic of the design on his site. "I purchased a defibrillator capacitor on EBay and have upgraded the old 2.4 KV can crusher to a 5 KV can crusher. I added a voltage doubler on the output of the Microwave Oven Transformer
Ryan from Ohararp has put together a modular Wireless LED Scrolling Display that looks very flexible and uses that cool ioBridge that we are starting to see used more and more. "A uPic is used to talk to the led drivers (8xMax7219’s) through the serial port (in this case an XBEE)."
As homes get bigger it’s harder to balance the heating system. You can close and open vents all you want but all it takes is a few closed doors to throw off the entire system. Jason Clark from Cyborgworkshop has overcome this issue by designing an Arduino controller that monitors sensors in all areas of his house. Servo motors then control dampers which put air where it’s needed. Have
This Led Matrix Dice made by Itay Donenhirsch looks very cool. Give it a shake to roll a new number. "The cube is driven by three 1.5V small button cells (which are sold here as batteries for EasyPark computerized parking ticket). The brain of this gadget is a ATmega168. The ATmega168 is programmed using avr-gcc and avr-libc. The MCU is connected to the matrices using a ULN2008 as a
