Jessica Bethune, Aiswary Kolisetty, Jessica Noglows and Rob Sobecki built this Master Lock Cracking project. I could have used this in junior high when I forgot my combination and needed to get my lock cut off. There is a mechanical spinner and a puller, the rest is all PIC microcontroller code. “The PIC was required to interface several hardware components to crack open a MasterLock with our LockCracker. The PIC
The prize this week is a coax cable stripper, this will help you make a easy job of stripping coax cable. This contest will run for one week (March 12 – 18, 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. This week we will need a make and mode of
Our friend Pete Mills has built an interesting visual project, it is a DIY Spinning Mirror Laser Light Show which was built into a cigar box. If you are wanting to make your own Pete has made the code available, this could be made without a controller but in this design a ATMega328 allows this project to be very powerful and flexible. “When a mirror is mounted on a motor
