Mario Mauerer and Lukas Schrittwieser sent in the project that has been created in the student lab over the past 1.5 years. It is a huge interactive LED disco floor which consists of 640 RGB LEDs. “The cool thing is that each tile can detect if somebody is standing on it or not! This information is process10 square meter ed by a Java program that allows us to write various
If you have a show car you need to see these cool turn signals. They use RGB LEDs to produce multiple effects, lots of the color effects could only be used when the car is in a show environment but this is sure to spice up any ride. Via: Electronics Lab “Why you may ask? Â First off why not! Â Second I take my car to cay shows and just like
PaweÅ‚ from Poland made a great portable AVR programmer. This thing is totally custom, you can see the prototype above and then see the tiny completed version in the pictures below. This is such a nice looking design that you might just need to have your very own. Nice thing is that Pawel has provided everything you need to make your own! “Function description: Write – writes data from file
When placing parts into a laser machine the first step is normally to set the height of the work so that the laser dot can focus on the exact spot that the cutting laser will hit. The dot lasers are mounted off to the side at an angle, it would be ideal if the aiming laser could be mounted directly above the work but of course this is where the
Most of us work with connectors quite often. Slap a junction box on the wall, run some wires into it and make some wire nut connections. What if you need it to be water resistant? No problem, put it in a plastic box and use water tight connectors right? Well that might work just fine if this electrical connection is to be mounted to the back of your house but
Hacked Gadgets was at the recent All Energy Conference in Aberdeen Scotland. There was lots of wind generation companies demonstrating their systems and components but I thought that Windspot is going after an interesting market. Their wind generators have automatic pitch compensation which makes them very quiet so they can be used in residential applications and they are also DIY friendly since as you can see everything you need is
Nicholas Skinner shares how he developed his DIY Central Heating and Hot Water Control System with us. “Features: Two channel (heating and hot water) support. Temporary Override (ignore schedule for 30 min – 1 day), both overriding on, but also off. Permanent Override (ignore schedule). Web based interface for changing schedule / override settings. Schedule support for any combination of weekdays. Schedule support for one off custom schedules on specific
