If you want to see what you are worth per hour this Minimum Wage Machine would be a great exercise. If you were making minimum wage in New York you would crank the handle and get a penny about every 5 seconds. Via: Zedomax “The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY
I made a PWM Fan Controller to cool my external hard drive that got quite warm when it was running for an extended period of time. There are 4 videos documenting the build below. Have a look at the project page for the schematic, code and additional information. The heart of the PWM Fan Controller is a PIC 12F675 microcontroller. This microcontroller is reading the analog output of a LM35
Strobes are an effective way of creating atmosphere. Wizz Engineering designed a huge Strobe Array which used 24 small strobe lights that were controlled using custom DMX stage lighting equipment. “The Strobe Array is a matrix of 8 x 3 small 10W stroboscopes. Each strobe has a relay soldered into it which forces it to flash, and the relays are controlled independently by a MPLI DMX512 interface. Patterns where selected
Our friend Frank from theworkshop.ca has just completed the Dune Buggy Electric Conversion Part 4. We have been following this project right to the stage it is now, as in part 3 of the Dune Bug E build there was lots of fabrication. The machine is really taking shape now! The re-use of existing mechanical parts is great, it demonstrates that there is no need to always run out and
I have been getting such kick out of some of the creative items that are available in the Makers Market that I opened my own store! The store is not so creatively called the Hacked Gadgets Market. There are only two items in the store, one is a set of Electronic Component Coasters which are sure a conversation starter. The other item is a Computer Motherboard Clock which was fun
If you need to explore a tight space or pull something from one point to another this Squeeze Exploratory Robot looks like it would be up to the task. The older Holio Robot was taller and had wheels instead of treads. Via: HG Comments ” He crawls around between rafters and floor boards. His main role is to pull network cables and alarm across roof spaces too small for people.Â
Take one Apple iPad processor, some gentle abrasive action and look what you can see. The folks over at iFixit partnered with Chipworks to get a closer look inside the iPad to see what makes it tick. Turns out the iPad is basically a huge version of the iPhone 2G. The Apple A4 processor is in a POP package, this stands for package-on-package. The first package is for the microprocessor and
