The 555 Contest that we told you about back in January is now over. Chris and Jeri will be on the air later today announcing the winners live. “Jeri and I have decided to announce the winners on-air, on Wednesday, April 20th. We will be uStreaming the entire show and will have a chat room running the entire time. This link will get you to the IRC chat and the
I thought I had seen the coolest way to kill the data on a CD which was linked on this article. But watch the video above to see the new coolest way to kill a CD. A high voltage is generated on either side of a spinning CD and it jumps the gap by using the path of least resistance which in this case is the spinning CD. Of course
This 3d iPad Demo is future of portable media! Laurence Nigay, a professor from France was inspired by the 3D work done by Johnny Lee who we interviewed a few years ago (blogs here and now works for the Google). “We track the head of the user with the front facing camera in order to create a glasses-free monocular 3D display. Such spatially-aware mobile display enables to improve the possibilities
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 (April 16 – 22, 2011). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with “Name the Thing Contest”
Take a look at this cool POV clock project that PyroElectro.com did. Please lots of other POV projects below, all of these projects are cool but the Pyro Electro POV Propeller Clock is probably the best documented one I have seen! It uses a PIC 18F252 Microcontroller to run the show and fan to spin the controller. IR light is used to keep track of where the spinning circuit board
The recently unemployed Dave Jones from the EEVblog has done a very extensive investigation of an issue he noticed which is the Noise an Oscilloscope Probe generates when Physically Shocked. I would have guessed it was just the switch that was not keeping a good contact when experiencing the jolt but watch the video to see what the culprit was. I remember having a similar (but totally different) thing happen
Just by adding a few wires you can use the BlinkM as a small Arduino. So next time you need a simple microcontroller that can be stuffed anywhere you might want to use a BlinkM. “The BlinkM board doesn’t have nearly the I/O pins and other features of a real Arduino board. But it is very tiny. Here are its capabilities: – 0.4″ square (MinM), or 0.6″ square (BlinkM) –
