Having a memorable business card is a big plus and we have seen some of these cards before, the Gear Business Card comes to mind. Aaron Alai has designed and created an Electronic Business Card that I guarantee no one who is lucky enough to receive will ever toss in the garbage. The only drawback is that each card takes Aaron 1 hour to make, hopefully he lands his dream
Thanks to ioBridge for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a serial LED to the contest winner, this product can be found on their online store. Nice thing about this serial LCD is that it can be connected to any of your microcontroller projects in addition to their popular IO-204 Monitor & Control Modules. “This 16×2 serial LCD display plugs directly into an I/O channel and can
Our friend Daniel Eindhoven from Megavolts has been hard at work improving on the coil gun that we featured here before. The new circuit modifications allows the gun to fire every second now. The new halogen charge resistors look much cooler also. “At the moment the only limiting factor for fire rate is the charge time, this is the time the capacitor bank takes to get fully charged. This time
We have seen some some strange batteries before, the potato battery comes to mind. When I think of beer, electrolyte isn’t the first thing I think of but the picture above is a beer battery. Watch the video below to see the battery lighting an LED. Now it just needs to be scaled up a bit to charge an iPod. Via HG Forum “The core of this device is the
Our friends over at Gadget Gangster have recently released the El Jugador – Open-Source Game Console. If you had an old game console growing up it will probably bring back come memories. You can also see some additional information in the Instructable. Via: HG Forum “Features: Make your own games with just a little coding experience SD Card bootloader so you don’t need any special programming hardware PAL or NTSC
If you like steampunk you are going to love this. This Steampunk Wheelchair Project is a work of art, other than the obvious donor electric wheel chair platform at the bottom the unit looks like it is something crazy from the past. The sound effects really top it off. Via Adafruit and Make “What you get when you mix an 1875 Eastlake Victorian platform rocking chair with a Permobil C300
If you are looking for a nice DIY Binary Clock design have a look at this one by Kenneth Finnegan. It uses a sweet DS3232 RTC, but at a cost of $7.63 it better also do the dishes… “The time is kept by a DS3232, which is a very cool chip in that it has a built in temperature sensor, which it uses to compensate the crystal to try and
