This is a great project that has pieces of an old scanner at its heart. I love the fact that this project is very functional, keeps the dog amused and was built on a recycled parts budget. I think it just needs some kind of water sprayer in the front that squirts just before it launches to prevent the inevitable ball to the nose that dog will endure. Have
This LinkInk Digital Accelerometer Pen could be the future of pen input. It is another entry in the PIC32 Design Challenge. Looks like there is stiff competition between the top design projects. I am very curious to see how well an accelerometer will be able to represent pen based writing. If it has sufficient resolution to complete this task I wonder if it could be used to generate 3D
Entry 16 These are entries 16 through 25 of the Hacked Gadgets Workbench Contest. There is only 3 days left to get something in! Seeing all of the different workbench configurations is fantastic, next time I need to reconfigure I will know exactly what I need to do. 🙂 It is very interesting to see that space doesn’t seem to be a limiting factor when setting up a work
If skateboard speed matters then a board by Altered Electric Skateboards may be the board for you. All you need is the wireless speed controller in hand and a passion for the open road (or at least a big parking lot). How long will it be before we see a DIY model that is faster than this one? "How does it work? and how does it Start & Stop?
Microchip (the makers of the popular PIC Microcontroller) are in the middle of a great contest called the PIC32 Design Challenge. There are many phases to this contest, currently the hardware phase is being conducted. After this phase the current 128 participants will be down to only 32. This contest is bringing out some great projects from some creative minds! This Bathroom Utilities Management System by Brent Morse is
This creative hack allows you to modify a teddy bear to read all of your tweets coming from Twitter. "Guru Alison and I performed some, uh, innovative 2.0 surgery on an old childhood friend. The result: a real-time Twittering, talking, live-streaming social media phenomenon. I worked with my team at the Drexel Music and Entertainment Technology Lab to develop Teddy’s text-to-speech software. MATERIALS: * Animatronic Teddy Bear * USB
This Simulated LED Flame Flicker project is just the thing that is needed for all of those pumpkins that will be put out this year. It can run sufficiently long on a battery and will not burn anyone. The code is not up yet but should be posted soon. "The code accepts an arbitrary number of LED outputs, with a minimum brightness for the general glow. A peak brightness
