I enjoy kicking back and watching a movie on my home theater, of course in my case I just have some extra equipment stuffed into my living room. I guess when you are rich and famous a dual purpose room isn’t good enough. That is why companies like Goldmund are in business designing and creating million dollar home theater rooms pumping more watts than my air conditioner sucks. “Today, we
After watching the Water Touch Screen video I was expecting to read that there was tons of sensors monitoring disturbances in the water, or changes in pressure due to the introduction of the users fingers. Was I ever wrong, turns out that a Web Cam and some carefully crafted software is all the magic that was needed here! Via: Neatorama “The webcam takes a picture of the surface of the
GPS technology is cheap enough that we are starting to see GPS being used in some cool new ways. You may remember this GPS game that we featured before. Markus has made a project he calls the Little Reverse GeoCache, it is based on a similar project that was made by Mikal Hart. The box can only be opened when it is in the correct location, the trick is that
I had great fun working on a cool Multimeter Clock project which got picked up by Design News for their Gadget Freak series. I thought it would be cool to have a clock that looks like an old Simpson 260 multimeter. The clock consists of three multimeters, the first meter displays hours, the second displays minutes and the last displays seconds. A 16F628A PIC microcontroller keeps track of time and
Looks like Texas Instruments is making a big push into the hobbyist microcontroller market with this new product called the Launch Pad. All microcontroller manufacturers have a development platform available so what makes this announcement by TI something special? The price! You can pick up one of these for only $4.30 with free worldwide shipping if you get it from the TI store. You might have to put your order
Richard Sudney (Youtube user 2sudsy) has been building Crystal Sets since he was 9 years old. He is a bit older than that now and his passion hasn’t drifted, it has just been honed over the years. Via: Make “A crystal radio receiver, also called a crystal set, is a very simple radio receiver, popular in the early days of radio. It needs no battery or power source and runs
With Pepper Mouth, the user will get sprayed in the mouth whenever they type a swear word on their computer keyboard. This is sure to be a hit with parents trying to keep their kids online use clean. Only issue is that the user can just unplug the USB device and toss it in the drawer. Via: Neatorama “Maybe when your “bad language” disturbs you with a bad smell, you
