Nintendo has added a new attachment for the Wiimote, it promises to add a new level of excitement to new Wii games. Link Via Via “we are able to create a 6 DOF IMU for under $40. Thanks Nintendo! Best of all, everything is I2C so only 2 analog inputs (A4 and A5 needed for the wire library) are needed to read 6 sensors and no ADC conversion happens on
Playing music using steppers is lots of fun, we have seen lots of stepper motor music in the past but this Super Mario tune sounds very nice. 🙂 Via: Adafruit "The sound you’re hearing is coming entirely from the motors. The motors are screwed into some pieces of aluminum from an old project to help them resonate. I’m taking requests for other songs to play. Currently, the information for
This Rolling Apple Power Mac G4 Cube hack will allow your computer to tell you how it feels. If you are over working it could turn and roll away. 🙂 That would be a great concept but the guts of the mod take up the entire inside of the box. 🙁 It still looks real cool to see a computer case driving around on a table! Via: The NXT
This Greenbox project is a beautiful way to save energy. Not only does it dress up the charging area but it also saves you money. When the phone is removed the wall wart charger is electrically disconnected. "As a design exercise, I have built a phone charging station that makes unplugging very easy and instinctive (with affordance playing a big role). So easy you don’t even notice it unplugs
This Arduino based Timelapse Photography Rig that Aonomus built is a great idea that will let you dig out your old digital camera and get a bit more use out of it. The Arduino microcontroller monitors a potentiometer and changes the time delay between pictures based on the dialed in value. There’s a LCD screen that shows the number of pictures taken and the delay between pictures. Finally to
With a few buttons, an LCD screen, an Arduino and a ioBridge, this project allows you to gather information locally and from the internet for instant display. In this example a local temperature sensor displays the local temperature while a internet based service used to get the temperature from another location. An online financial site is used to gather stock prices so that when you are in the kitchen
The Nevada Lightning Laboratory were recently trying many experiments, such as what would happen if you flew a small radio controlled helicopter between two Tesla coils, could a small vehicle big enough for one person be powered using a Tesla coil. Watch the videos below for the cool answers. "We’ve done a number of things using Tesla’s original schematic, and have been able to transmit and receive considerable amounts
