What does it take to make an 8 foot tall R2D2? Well if you are Darth Len it takes a bunch of cardboard boxes from refrigerators, air conditioners and dryers. Then you need lots of tape to hold everything together. It was about a 50 hour build and looks to be hard to move around since it wouldn’t be easy to squish into your 4 door sedan. Via TechEBlog, Gizmodo
After I upgraded my Android phone I was pleased to see the new Google Voice Search options. It actually works quite well. The guys over at Breakfast had some great fun making The Verbalizer which allows physical world control over the Google Voice Search. Via: Make “Out of the box, the Verbalizer connects wirelessly to your computer via Bluetooth and when triggered, opens google.com in a new tab and activates
Electro Bob decided to upgrade his Ikea halogen spot lights into using LEDs so that he could run them all night. Bob removed the guts of the spotlight housing and installed his new high power LEDs which were mounted to two L brackets for heat sinking. I would have never thought of using orange LED like Bob did but he says that they are easier on the eyes at night.
Last week we showed you a Bluetooth Cell Phone Garage Door Opener. This Smartphone WiFi Garage Door Opener by Tuxgraphics accomplishes the same thing but does it in a totally different way. This project uses a smart phone to interact to an ethernet board which is running a web server, using the soft buttons from the page displayed you are then able to control outputs on the board. When
The prize this week is a solar flashlight, if you want to use this as a flashlight you better charge it during the day and not hidden in a drawer. 🙂 I am thinking that the housing could make for a very small surface mount project. Not sure if the solar cell would have enough power to energize a very low current circuit but I would think it should. This
If you haven’t seen a TIX clock before you can see (or purchase) one from Think Geek. They are very cool looking, and in my opinion. I first saw them being used by Chris Pirillo. What is better than buying a TIX clock would be to make your own, that is exactly what Guido Seevens from Gweeds.net did. He documented the DIY TIX Clock build here and provided all of
Chris from Pyro Electro sent in his latest creation, it’s a IR prox sensing musical device. As usual he has provided enough information to make your own. ” IR sensors used to detect the distance between the sensor and an object are a perfect fit for a DIY Theremin because they are low cost and they are reliable enough to get the project working. The idea here is that instead
