This POV Fan Display Hack by Hacking with Gum required a bit of reverse engineering to determine how the device worked in the first place, then a way to re-program the operation of the device to display a new message. Thanks Craig. "It turns out that Cenzic made it very easy to access the fan’s EEPROM chip, and with a simple RS232-to-I2C interface you can re-write the EEPROM on
Wow if I run into someone this Halloween with effect makeup that looks as realistic as the video above it will certainly send shivers up my spine. It demonstrates that you can really step it up from the production rubber mask that most people pick up at the corner drugstore. Have a look at the tutorials listed for more Halloween scar techniques. How to make a fake wound Create
This is a cool scale mod. The Weight Logging Bathroom Scale saves the the time stamped weight for each use to an SD card. This allows the data to be plotted and analyzed. The method that the weight was taken from the existing digital scale platform is real interesting. The original LCD data lines were snooped on to determine what value is being displayed! Thanks Jorge. "First I thought
Dan Bricklin is one of the developers behind VisiCalc back in 1979. Dan hasn’t slowed down since VisiCalc, in Bricklin On Technology he shares his visionary thoughts with all of us. It is written in an interesting way, many sections are filled with blog posts and views on how technology will influence our lives. As a true Engineer he is always attempting to solve the needs of his fellow
Norris Labs has created an interesting Robot called the ChessBot. It doesn’t actually play the game but rather has the ability to move the chess pieces around the board. Just imagine playing a game of chess on this system via webcam instead of playing virtual chess on the net. "ChessBot takes a hybrid approach that produces a more visually interesting way to move a chess pieces. It uses a
The Halloween Hanging Mobile Project was lots of fun. Hand drawn images were cut out using a Fireball V90 CNC machine as pieces of the spooky mobile. You can see more details of the V90 CNC machine here. Here are the basic steps of what was done: Drawings were made on sheets of paper The drawings were scanned into the computer and touched up using MS Paint Artcam was
The goal of Gyrowheel might be to enable our children to learn how to ride a bike as well as MURATA BOY. The Gyrowheel will probably not spell the end to normal training wheels because of the increased complexity and therefore cost. But it certainly has many advantages over conventional training wheels so I would not be surprised to see it come as standard equipment on small bikes in
