We saw a project earlier this month that worked like an Ambilight system but this open source Light-Pack USB Ambient Lighting System seems to have much better effects. And since it’s open source you can get all of the info you need to make your own. I can’t wait till there is a system that doesn’t requite a computer to process the image. “The software analyses the image on your
Chris from Pyroelectro demonstrates some Animatronic Mouth concepts to bring your next robot to life. I would like to have this animatronic face tied to my computer and raise an eyebrow when I have an email and raise both when there are more than 10 unread emails. 🙂 ” In this tutorial I will show you two simple methods for building a believable robotic mouth. One articulated and moveable, the
We have seen Plasma Speakers here before. They won’t replace your everyday speakers but they are sure cool. What’s better than reading about an interesting project? Building it! Instead of scrounging all the parts for a project a kit makes things real easy to duplicate and that is exactly what this is about. Matthew Chapman and Marshall Meng of Student RND have put together a Plasma Speaker Kit Kickstarter which
Halloween is right around the corner. If you are looking for something that can be whipped together quickly and scare the pants off the kids that will be terrorizing the streets, look no further than these DIY Halloween LED Blinking Eyes by Pete Mills. The microcontroller code is available here. “I connected the LED pairs to an ATtiny2313 microcontroller via some comms wire and some 2n3904 transistors for each pair.
Christian Reed made this Instructable that shows us how to build a Grappling Hook Launch Cannon. Where was this Instructable when I couldn’t find my ladder last week. 🙂 “The final version begins with the CO2 coming from a paintball cylinder. Â It enters the gun through a check valve (to ensure it does not come out once it enters the tank) and then a Quick Exhaust Valve (QEV). Â The tank
The prize this week is a solar flashlight, if you want to use this as a flashlight you better charge it during the day and not hidden in a drawer. 🙂 I am thinking that the housing could make for a very small surface mount project. Not sure if the solar cell would have enough power to energize a very low current circuit but I would think it should. This
Instead of hiring a security guard why not make a Security Robot. There are tons of features in this Arduino based robot but the thing I find most interesting is that after it has driven around draining the battery it can charge by driving over the charging strips shown above. This solution seems much easier than the charging cradles that we have seen many other system doing. Via: Adafruit
