2011

Remote Control Solar Lawn Mower

    Robert Smith built this Remote Control Solar Lawn Mower to let him cut his grass without breaking a sweat. Check out a few of the many videos below that he created going over the entire build process. He used Google Sketchup to make a 3D model of the system before it was built, this would allow you to make your own lawnmower if you choose. Just like with

DIY Auto turn-OFF featured cheap Digital Multimeter

  Youritronics member Florin brings you a wonderful design that enables you to add an Auto-OFF feature for 15 mins in your old and cheap digital multimeter(DMM). With this you can save your battery consumption even if you forgot to turn-OFF your DMM. To add the Turn-OFF feature, you will be requiring a very few components like – microcontroller (tiny25 in the present case), a voltage regulator, a npn transistor and the associated capacitors

Jailbreaking Apple TV 2 iOS 4.2.2 untethered using Sn0wbreeze 2.7.3 (Windows)

Chiphazard presents a detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to jailbreak Apple TV 2 iOS 4.2.2 untethered using Sn0wbreeze 2.7.3 for Windows. The tutorial begins with the downloads from: iOS 4.22 for Apple TV 2G  and Snowbreeze 2.7.3 (Windows). Following the next few steps as mentioned in the tutorial you’ll be able to  jailbreak Apple TV 2 iOS 4.2.2 as untethered. In the next step you simply need to connect your Apple TV 2G to your TV set and

Bridgestone: Air-Free Tire Concept

  Laughingsquid member EDW Lynch reported the new design concept of Air-Free Tire by Bridgestone. This Air-Free Tire is basically an airless tire design concept that relies on thermoplastic resin spokes to give the tire its shape and flexibility. This newly designed tire is 100% recyclable. Currently the holders of lightweight carts and personal mobility devices can be benefited with this new launch and very soon this design concept will brought up for the larger vehicle

DIY Home Automation - using Voice activated commands

  Check out this wonderful project that you can use to automate your home using voice commands without spending big bucks. To build this, you will only require few popularly used components like: a VRbot voice recognition module an AVR ATtiny2313 a 433MHz RF send module low-cost wireless light swiches (or relays)  VRBot speech recognition module is basically the core of this project. It recognizes 32 custom voice commands.  Once a command is recognized,

Pulse Sensor monitors Heart Beats and easily interfaces to an Arduino

  Check out this Pulse Sensor which monitors Heart Beats and easily interfaces to an Arduino. This could be used for lots of creative applications. Think of cool clothing that blinks to your heart beat. It would be neat for fitness instructors to be able to look at the ear lobe of their students to determine their approximate heart rate and if the exercise plan should be altered to optimize