The prize this week is a HMC5883L Triple Axis Compass Magnetometer Sensor so you can add some directionality to your next project. This contest will run for one week (May 30 – June 5, 2015). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to
 Vassilis Papanikolaou built this Motorcycle Gear Indicator Project that uses hall effect sensors to detect the movement of the shift pedal. The end project was put into a nice looking case and mounted in a way that it looks stock. The sensor was encapsulated in epoxy to keep the weather out. Most new vehicles have this type of indicator built in but if not this is a nice
This Virtual Mouse project by r5rejeet shows us how OpenCV can be used to interface the camera image and process it into a HMI device. You can move the mouse pointer around the screen by moving your open hand around, you can click by simply closing your hand. This allow for a surprisingly good looking gesture interface.Â
Can’t wait till this style of delivery method is available. Tested had a first hand look at the Google Project Wing Delivery Drone Prototype. Not that it will have a direct replacement for things such as pizza delivery since the payload needs to currently be quite small but the flight and delivery method is great. Scaling these up to handle larger packages would make it great for package delivery
If you have one of these classic Nokia phones in your desk you might want to put it to use. Via: EEVBlog Forum “I am making an Arduino shield to interface with old Nokia phones. I’d like to keep the price around $20 for the shield, cables, and phone. If I can get some software help from the community, this will be great for interfacing projects with the internet.
This Meter Clock uses a DS1307 RTC and Trinket Microcontroller to show the current time in style. The meters are PWMed into position directly from a few pins of the Trinket. The meters are ammeters that have had their scale replaced by Hour and Minute scales. You can see the scale adjustment calculated below, another alternative would be to do it in code as I did with the Multimeter
 Zhiyuan Teo and Mohit Yogesh Modi made this iPhone Gesture Control for their ECE 5760 Final Project. Their system uses a camera to look for certain gestures to control the docked iPhone. The current version uses a green square as the item that is being tracked and there are 4 video regions that are being watched. With a bit more work a hand could be tracked instead of
