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 (May 15 – 20, 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”
Rolling your own PCBs is something that is great to speed up the development time when designing a new circuit. Even now that there are quick and fairly cheap board houses that can make production quality boards it still takes days instead of the hours it would take if you made your own in your home lab. Keith Neufeld has perfected the isolation method of PCB creation on his MakerBot.
If you need a stable time base for something such as a clock project have a look at this DIY 1Hz Time Base project from The Hackers Bench. I see that the board that was used is one from our friends at Gadget Gangster. “In principal this circuit is extreemly simple. You build a crystal oscillator, and then you divide it’s output down to 1Hz. The crystal we’re going to
Jeremy Mayer built this crazy Head out of Typewriter Parts. What a great use of old parts that would normally be tossed in the trash. Jeremy sure has a good eye for what would look great as different body parts. Make sure you have a look at the large group of pictures of the machine. Via: Laughing Squid Progress on Bust V from Jeremy Mayer on Vimeo.
I hope building a Geiger Counter Project is just fun and not a necessity but if you are feeling curious here is a cool DIY Geiger Counter project kit. Via: Dangerous Prototypes “The Geiger Kit is a board that provides the electronics needed to run, and detect events from the GM tube, along with a microprocessor (ATmega328) that makes it easy to customize a solution for processing and outputting the events. Both the Geiger
I have seen mice evolve from things that looked like a bar or soap to crazy mice that are supposedly so ergonomic that they hurt my hands to use for half an hour. I am not sure this Felt Mouse would feel good after a few hours but it looks nice and soft. Via: Zedomax “I was inspired by the mouse’s intimate contact with the human skin, which is unique
The spring 2011 batch of Cornell University ECE 4760 Designing with Microcontrollers Final Projects are out. Be prepared to spend a few hours browsing through the details of these cool projects. There is everything from a human tracking fan system to a DJ Touchscreen Device. If you are into playing rock paper scissors have a look at the ECE 4760 project below. David Dunn and Chris Fairfax designed and built
