The guys from Sparkfun went on their second trip to China. They checked out some of their suppliers and lots of the markets. Via: Dangerous Prototypes “While there were shops and floors for all sorts of electronic goods, Bunnie had heard of a special market that dealt exclusively with bulk cell phones. That’s right, you could buy a pile of cell phones. Heck yes we needed to see this! This
The IR Jammer has been selling very well and is also available in the Maker Shed. PCB Heaven was kind enough to kick the tires and do a full review on the IR Jammer. “Alan’s IR R-C jammer does exactly this. It has 4 powerful IR LEDs that are driven with pulses of specific frequency. One excellent feature of this Kit, is that it does not transmit one single frequency.
The ALS EEG Project is being held in Ort Hermalin Collage in Natanya Israel by Alon Bukai and Ofir Benyamin under the guidance of Amnon Demri. Another video is here. Thanks Amnon. “Our system works by use of a helmet which reads EEG signals sent through the brain. These signals are then interpreted by the headset and sent to the laptop attached to the ALS Patients’ wheelchair. From here the
Check out the latest Analogue to Digital Conversion Interrupts on an ATmega168A tutorial over at Protostack. You might not need the information today but it will probably come in handy some day! “In this tutorial we add a second analogue input and use the ADC Conversion Complete interrupt. The circuit we are using is similar to what we used last time but has an extra trimpot and uses an ATmega168A
Have a look at the Propeller Microcontroller based Floor Lamp that Jason Dorie has put together. His CNC machine was instrumental in the build since the board that you see was routed on the CNC machine with the trace isolation method, this is where a copper clad board has the material around the traces and pads routed away. It uses about 24 watts at full brightness and Jason says that
This is a cool looking Bubble Display Project. Who doesn’t want to play an instrument that is connected to bubble making system! I think there would be a lot more piano players out there if this was hooked up to pianos in schools. 🙂 “The board was built to support up to 64 outputs. Each output had an LED. It was a simple design of several I/O expanders on an
I have been spending all sorts of time recently getting ready for the release of the Reactive Lighting – LED Stair Lighting System. The powerful stair lighting controller and wide variety of stair lights has gotten a lot of attention from some of the partners that we have been working with pre-launch. We will be launching the company tomorrow (March 31, 2011) at the Home Expressions show here in Winnipeg
