Thanks to Geva for sending in this great project. A brain monitor is connected to an Arduino so it can detect when the user is concentrating. When this happens a mild electric current is applied to the water in which there are hundreds of microbes swimming about. As soon as the current is applied they immediately start swimming towards the top of the screen where the negative pole is.
This Hand Controlled Tetris Like Game uses an Altera FPGA to captures a video signal and looks for a players hand skin color. The system tracks their hand movements and looks for the user moving their hands forward and back by determining how tall the skin colored object is over time. The goal here is to prevent the falling tetris like blocks from falling by rapidly pushing and pulling
 The prize this week is a breadboard power supply. This contest will run for one week (May 26 – 31, 2013). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please note the image above is a side view of the thing. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest
This documentary video gives us a behind the scenes look at the Japanese Bullet Train Shinkansen. “The TÅkaidÅ Shinkansen is the world’s busiest high-speed rail line. Carrying 151 million passengers per year (March 2008), it has transported more passengers (over 5Â billion, entire network over 10 billion) than any other high speed line in the world. Between Tokyo and Osaka, the two largest metropolises in Japan, up to thirteen trains
 Thanks to Vigo for sending in his latest project. It’s a Animatronic Singing Robot! The mechanism is quite simple but the results are fantastic. I can just imagine using this for a phone call that is video recorded at one end, you could have the puppet move it’s mouth to the speech of the other person and have a full conversation with the puppet. “What is Animatronic Beaker-bot? Well,
Oyvind from Build Electronic Circuits sent in his latest project. It’s a 1937 Philips AM Radio Hacked into an iPhone Dock, the project is basically using the nice old housing since all of the internals were discarded. He is using a module that the iPhone plugs into to grab the audio line out from the phone which is fed into the a small amp. A newer speaker was installed since
  If you are tied to your cell phone to monitor weather, calendar events and stocks, the Alert Tube could be the next gadget you need. Michael Watson built is around a Raspberry Pi, it monitors the net for events that you choose and alerts you by light patterns, text to speech or sounds. You can see the entire project build details here. “The Alert Tube is an open
