Who says The Clapper is old technology? Pete Mills blows off the dust from the vintage tech and breaths new life into the idea. The new Clever Clapper uses Claps and Laser Beams to control the Lights!  “In my version of the clapper if you clap twice within one second, the circuit toggles the lamp output. On becomes off and vice versa. If you clap three times within one
Check out this Sound Responsive Dress which listens to the singers voice and adjusts accordingly. In the picture below you can see the electronics that run the dress mounted to the wall. Thanks to Mitch for sending this in. “It’s a sound-responsive dress that uses Processing (heavily using the Minim code library) and Arduino to map the singer’s voice onto an array of spinning strings. The strings, in turn,
Breadboards make building circuits quite simple, how could it get any simpler that a breadboard? The answer is Snap Circuits. With the different component pieces all you need to do is snap them together to build your circuit, this might be a great way to learn circuits for the first time since the schematic is a picture of the actual build layout. Krash made a robot from them to
 James Burton from XRobots.co.uk has sent in the latest progress on his Bipedal Dynamic Stability Testing. Looks to be moving along very well. “It’s about half the height of an average person and I built all the parts from scratch with hand tools. It’s basically intended as a development platform so I have some more to build and some more experiments to do, but I’m at the stage
If you ever wanted a way to control your night light from across the room you are in luck. Dan reverse engineered his Ikea night light and stuffed in a bunch of electronics so that it can now be controlled by an Android Phone. Of course remote control is just the beginning, a smart Android app could now easily use it to display the status of many things. “It’s
Reclaimed wood was used to replace the stair treads in this stairwell but the knot holes were coming out. Broken glass and epoxy was used to fill the knot holes, a bunch of LED were added to let the knot holes light up. A motion sensor is used to light the stairs for 9 seconds which is just enough time to enjoy the look of the cool knot holes
Viktor has built a great looking project which is a PIC Microntroller based Dual Thermometer using two DS1820 1-Wire Sensors. This allows Viktor to monitor the exact temperature in his fridge and freezer at the same time. Since the sensors are 1-wire this means that they are really easy to wire to the board. “The temperature sensing part I used for this project is a high-precision 1-Wire digital thermometer
