Julie Wang developed the Bruce in a Box Augmented Reality Project for her ECE 5760 final project. This looks like a fun project, to see where the name comes from watch the video at 3:00. “My system makes use of a variety of digital signal processing and computer vision techniques, resulting in a robust and reliable system. The hardware I utilized was the DE2-115 board by Altera, a Video
If you like playing chess this Wall Mounted Computer Chess Board Project might be something that would be a good project to add to the list. It has a vintage chess game hacked into this hand made wall hung chess board. Thanks to Artless Dodger for sending this in. “Parts Needed Working Fidelity Chess challenger 8 or 9 Power adapter 8v Coin cell battry 3v MDF 6mm board
I spotted this photoswitch on eBay and had to take a look at the guts (search photoswitch if the link doesn’t work since eBay links go stale after a short time). I now see that the same unit is sold in multiple variations which are 24V and 220V. Not sure I would feel safe with 220 on this thing though. I am curious if the 10 ohm resistor is
The Phenox is an intelligent quadcopter that was designed by Ryo Konomura and Kensho Miyoshi from Japan. The power and flexibility of the platform looks very impressive. They have a kickstarter that has just been started also. Thanks for the tip Jason. Â “What is Phenox? Phenox is a palm-sized on-board processing programmable quad-copter robot based on linux operating system. Phenox implements Zynq (XC7Z010) 256MB DDR3. bluetooth device sensors. Their
These days people who design circuits usually do so on a computer, the days of pencil and paper are almost all but gone. The issue is that your computer is probably working harder on useless background tasks than it is running your design software. We will go through some of the things to take back control of your computer so you can get some productive work done rather and
The prize this week is an Arduino Pro Mini. This contest will run for one week (May 10 – 16, 2014). 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 @
David Watts has made a DIY Boombox which is made with mostly off the shelf pieces that have been hacked together. Some of the features the boombox has is line in, bluetooth input, radio, spectrum analizer and a partially working pong game. An Arduino is built into the box to do some of the control. The box is powered from a 6 AA cell battery pack, a step down
