It’s hard to believe that we have had 100 Name the Thing Contests already! The prize this week will be a cool tiny Sansa Clip 1GB MP3 player. This contest will run for one week (Sept 12 – 18, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. ***Hint, the image
Evan Grant gives a brief talk covering the basics of cymatics. "Creative and technologist Evan Grant is founder of collective seeper. He started the company during his first year of study at Bournemouth University and has been working for the past 10 years as a director, developer and producer with a self-applied remit for innovation-led wonderment."
This PIC microcontroller project is from a St. Cloud State University course. Jacob Scherer did a good job at making a multifunction system using a PIC chip, it can function as a digital oscilloscope, spectral analyzer, pulse generator and pulse width measurement, temperature sensor, and capacitor sensor! This project reminds me of the ones that are created in the Cornell ECE 5760 course. "It is a microcontroller based system
Remember the C-64? Mine is long gone but I still have the memories… I still remember typing pages of HEX codes from the pages of various C-64 magazines to play the simple game of the month. You can now bring back the past in the palm of your hand thanks to the power of the iPhone. Manomio has put lots of work in the emulator and it is a
This Hard Drive Clock is fantastic, especially the great looking painted front of the clock. It really looks like a piece of art. As you probably know we love hard drive clocks around here and almost any projects that can be made with used hard drives! Thanks for the tip Maciek.
I think small electric powered devices such as this one will become very popular in the next 10 years. Who needs to drive a 2 ton car if you are only transporting yourself a few blocks away to catch a movie or go for lunch? I am not sure the price of this model will make it attractive though… Via: Gizmodo "This weird thing is a 1.2kW electric motor
Who says that everything needs to be done using microcontrollers? Well these days I feel muck more comfortable taking on projects using a microcontroller when in the past a handful of TTL chips would have done the trick. I like the fact that you can change so much in code and your hardware doesn’t need to be touched. Travis7s demonstrates with his Ready, Set, Go! Light that 555 timers
