2012

SIGLENT SDS1102CM Oscilloscope Review

  Our friend Csaba did a great Review of the SIGLENT SDS1102CM Oscilloscope. “SIGLENT SDS1102CM Specifications Based on the CSV file: Model Number:                     SDS1102CM Serial Number:                     SDS00002111512 Software Version:                3.01.01.22 Based on the turn on screen: Software Version:                3.01.01.223 Approx. 450USD on ebay.com”

Laser Beam Cuts Man in Half

    Martin Raynsford has been doing some playing with his laser, talking some time to have some fun is very important. In this case he used his Laser Beam Cuts Man in Half, just like in the movies!  

Clever Clapper uses Claps and Laser Beams to control the Lights

  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

Sound Responsive Dress

  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,

Learn Electronics with Snap Circuits

  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

Bipedal Dynamic Stability Testing

    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

Ikea Night Light controlled by an Android Phone

  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