March 2012

Spooky Animatronic Hand Carved Wooden Head Desk Lamp

    Check out this Spooky Animatronic Hand Carved Wooden Head that rosemarybeetle made. I am not sure I could have this  on my side table because I would always be staring at the spooky face. The face carving is very well done, it looks like it should be a museum piece! “I did not work up detailed design drawings, having decided to let the final look of the head

Name the Thing Contest – 199

  The prize this week is a non contact AC test pen. This pen can be used to test if AC voltage is present in a wire without needing to touch the bare conductor. This contest will run for one week (March 24 – 30, 2012). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please do not

DIY Digital Volt Meter Project

  Voltage measurement is something that is very handy. There will come a time when you need more than one meter to monitor the project that you are putting together. This DIY Digital Volt Meter Project will let you build your second Digital Volt Meter so you can monitor a voltage source while your hand held DMM is in use monitoring a different part of your circuit.  

DIY Atomic Clock Synced LED Clock

  If you want the most accurate DIY clock possible have a look at this DIY Atomic Clock Synced LED Clock build. This clock is built to use the DCF77 which stands for D=Deutschland (Germany), C=long wave signal, F=Frankfurt, 77=frequency: 77.5 kHz. Via: LED Projects “The 77.5 kHz carrier signal is generated from local atomic clocks that are linked with the German master clocks in Braunschweig. With a relatively high power of 50

Pirate Bay Servers might soon be GPS Controlled Drones

    As you probably know The Pirate Bay is always hiding the location of their servers since governments can often cause a huge speed bump in their activity when they want to. The Pirate Bay Servers might soon be GPS Controlled Drones to allow the server farm to not only not be tied to a building on earth but it could be commanded to fly to a new location

Electronic Upgrade for Antique Music Box

  Music boxes are so nice because they play such nice music from a very simple mechanism. In this case the music is still nice but the Digital Enhancement player uses a much more complex method to get the music out. Via: Make and Laughing Squid  “Digital Enhancement” is an interactive sound installation consisting of an electrified Symphonion Brevet No. 28, a synthesizer, an amplifier and four headphones. The Symphonion

Horto domi - an Open Garden project that can be controlled from the web

  Do you like gardening and electronics? If so the Horto domi might be just the thing for you to tie these two loves together. The kickstarter is almost 1/3 funded and there is 50 days left, looks like it has a good shot at getting funded!  “Horto domi is an open hardware raised-bed garden unit with environmental control and monitoring via web-interface thanks to Arduino Ethernet. DIY sensors, such