Our friend Bob Davis is working on an experimental device he calls an Ionic Spinner. It’s working but still needs some fine tuning. The first video he describes the creation but the demo doesn’t work too well, in the second video you can see the modified design and the spinner spinning away. Bob is using a TV flyback transformer in this experiment so use extreme caution if you attempt to
Thanks to Stanley for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a Compact HID Spotlight to a lucky contest winner. This flashlight would have come in handy last year when we did some travels and visited a number of campgrounds. It usually ended up being dark when we were setting up camp and light was always an issue. We had a number of flashlights but you can never
We have seen tons of cool rubber band guns and lots of potato guns but I think this is the first Sausage Gun I have ever seen. The resulting gun after a 4 hour build looks like lots of fun. I guess it would be classified as a less lethal weapon since I think it would hurt but I don’t think it could kill.
Our friend Daniel Eindhoven from the Netherlands has got his hands on an interesting piece of ancient medical equipment. He will be refurbishing this Voodoo Magic High Frequency Healing Device from the 1930s. I wonder if Dr. Eindhoven does house calls. 🙂 It is truly quite shocking what people used to do to cure you. I guess some of its applications are not far fetched even these days though. “This
Here is an interesting Linear Clock that is driven by two Stepper Motors. It is using an Arduino Mega as the brain and an Adafruit motor shield to interface to two stepper motors. The stepper motors turn a lead screw that moves two nuts up an down to indicate the current time. Via: Adafruit
We have all seen the McDonalds Kids Meal Toys, they usually last about a day and a half before they find their way into the trash. David Cook from the Robot Room decided to take an Avatar McDonalds Toys apart to see what made it tick. Turns out there isn’t much for electronics since it uses an ASIC to get the work done. One neat feature is that the piezo
Are you tired of the standard mouse that came with your computer? Why not spice it up a bit like Filimon did with this Steampunk Computer Mouse creation. When you see the mouse alone it isn’t obvious what it is! This would be great in an office environment, you would have the cubicle that no one would slip into to look something up.
