Where is the best place to house a Datacenter? An old Soviet Nuclear Bunker is the obvious place for the Datacenter! Turns out that this is quite a common situation. Just a warning, the link shown at the edges of the picture takes you to a Russian site that seems to have more details of the data center but also contains some nudity. The bunkers were built to keep tremendous
When Johnathan Hottell from filear.com was developing some programming for his PLC testing how things work was often not very easy. The PLC IO Simulator allows Johnathan to simply adjust value on the simulator to see what happens on the PLC logic. Turning a potentiometer is a bit simpler than draining a 100 gallon tank to see what happens in the PLC. The wiring is actually quite nice based on
I love plants but they tend to die when in my care because I forget to water them. I know that the plant needs a shot of water every now and then but I still forget, there has been some helpful electronic plant monitoring systems made, even systems that let your plants tweet to you. But this DIY Electronic Watering System from Deddies Lab is more up my alley since
The prize this week is a loupe magnifier, this will let you get a close look at whatever you are working on. This contest will run for one week (February 5 – 11, 2011). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send
DIY electronics is all about revisions. Make something work the first time and make it look nice the second time around. We featured this Analog LED Clock last year, cosmetically it looked fine and worked great. Wellyb00t has been hard at work making a new version which you can see on his Youtube channel. Instructions and details on the clock can be found here. Via: HG Comments
We have seen DIY bullet speed measuring systems before, this DIY Paintball Gun Chronograph by Instructables user KLASH69 has been well documented and includes schematics, PCB layouts and code so you can get a jump on building your own. “The operation of this chronograph is rather simple, there are two IR transmitters and two IR Detectors, each transmitter/detector pair is placed exactly four inches apart. When an object breaks the
I had a great time meeting the team responsible for creating the Anybot Telepresence Robot. The founder of Anybots is Trevor Blackwell who was featured on Hacked Gadgets about 5 years ago for his cool electric unicycle. There was an Anybot mingling with the people in the Las Vegas Anybots suite, it was being controlled by Ian Danforth who was back at the Anybots head office in Mountain View California.
