Who said you need to upgrade your motherboard to get USB? Just buy this $100 adapter and magically upgrade your parallel port to USB. I wonder if it has drivers for the Windows 95 you have on the computer though. I guess another option would be to just purchase a used computer that has USB and 10 times the computing power for about half the price of the adapter.
I enjoy fishing and try to get out at least 2 or 3 times a year. Sometimes the fish are biting like crazy but other times they are just not very active. I think with a Underwater Exploration Vehicle like the Nøkken 3 ROV the fishing experience would be totally changed. I can imagine scouting the bottom of the river looking for the best spot and it would be
Ian gives us an inside look at Bunnie Huang’s Workshop. I couldn’t quite figure out the voice at the beginning and the end until Chris Gammell ran the credits (I am very sure it’s him). Bunnie sure has some cool tools, he has just picked up some equipment to allow him to reball BGAs, that can’t be easy…Â I was surprised to hear that he doesn’t haggle very much,
  IronJungle was inspired by my Multimeter Clock when he built his Voltmeter Clock that also displays Temperature. He used a PicAxe as the microcontroller and has interfaced to a DS1307 Real Time Clock and a DS18B20 Temperature Sensor. Three trim pots were used to adjust the meters to full scale in setup mode.
You probably remember those fun Light Bright boxes that were so much fun to play with. This one looks a lot different than the plain white wedge that I had when I was young, but the concept is the same. Over at Mean PC you can see how a simple Lite Brite was turned into a Lite Brite LED Clock. You can see the numerous build videos that take
Hallstudio has been flying RC planes since 1989, lots of things have changed since then. Check out this great Cheap Tricopter Build that he put together. It comprises of a bunch of inexpensive parts that total around $100 but give you the a great tricopter base that you can fly and modify. There are lots of interesting tricks that he demonstrates in the video such as the use of
Rambo build a great way to automatically control his window blinds using a MSP430 Launchpad. It doesn’t do much more than just spin the rod in one direction or the other fully when the buttons are pressed but that is just the beginning. It would now be trivial to add things like light sensors that allow the blinds to close when the light level is too high or open
