Embedded video from CNN Video Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton have put a camera into near space and took a ton of pictures for a cost of only $150. The most interesting thing is that unlike most of these balloon projects there was no custom electronics involved. Instead they used a GPS enabled cell phone to send them the GPS location data. "We designed a low cost balloon-launch
This is a cool work of art by Tod Kurt called the Crystal Monster. It shows off the power of 18 BLINKM MAXM that are neatly placed in the custom laser cut box. You probably remember some of the cool Roomba Hacking that Tod also does. "It’s made from over 400 sheets of laser-cut acrylic, more that 240 feet of LED tape (>2200 RGB LEDs!), and around 500 steel
Carl sent in this Spinning RGB LED Ball Display project that he did when he was only 16! The visual effects are fantastic. There are a few images of the actual system at the end of the video and it looks very well done. Hopefully we can get some more pictures of the system.
Syncin’ n’ Sprinkin’ from Pete Lewis on Vimeo. Pete Lewis from Spark Fun have built a cool Smart Lawn Sprinkler project that is designed to save water by only putting it where it can be used. It does this by varying the water pressure to restrict the distance that the sprinkler can spray. It is a crude method but works very well! A potentiometer is used to measure the
