Thanks to Ponoko for sponsoring the contest this week. They are providing a $50 gift voucher to a lucky winner to allow you to spread your creative wings and have your own design built. Here are some details about how the process works. When you are done creating your master piece you can make some cash by selling it to the masses from your own Ponoko Showroom. Only catch with
This Temperature Control project interfaces a DS1621 temperature sensor to a ATtiny 2313 micrcontroller, with some AVR Bascom code a relay is controlled based on temperature. This is a very useful project since it has many applications, you could use it to turn on your car block heater when it gets cold, or turn on your attic fan when it gets real hot in the attic. Full code and schematics
BS2ILH from the Parallax forum posted an interesting project, it’s a Model Train Rotary Dumper. Say goodbye to having to push your train cars around using your hands, instead with a push of a button you can see automation take over and complete the task of unloading all the coal from your model railroad. You can see lots of build videos here, it is a very well laid out project!
This LED Candle project by macobt is nice and simple, plus the effect is enhanced because the LED is actually mounted in a real candle. We have seen other LED Candle projects here in the past but this one has a great finished look to it. If you have a spare PIC12F675 laying around you might want to give it a try, the code and schematic is provided here.
The Harford Hackerspace has been building a CNC machine. You can see all the build details here. This machine is a huge success! The Z axis can lift an amazing 65 lbs and it has no problem cutting metal throwing stars. What more testing do you need? I think we can call the build done at this point. “The CNC machine’s construction has advanced to the point where we can
So going to CES was not in the cards for me this year. Not a problem since I am not all that interested in the mainstream stuff anyway. I am more interested in the far out gadgets and some of the crazy products that may not find it in consumers hands. I have mainly been following the coverage from Zedomax, Hack a Day and Makezine. This phone watch that does
I purchased a small model rocket kit a about 10 years ago, it was lots of fun until it got permanently stuck in a tree. I can just imagine how much more fun it would have been if I could have experienced the flight from a perspective other than from a fixed ground based location. Well, I Build Rockets has done exactly that. They have strapped a cheap $11.50 camera
