Our friends over at the Deadly Computer Blog have just finished an Interactive LED Table Build. The results are great! “ A few months ago I saw this Interactive LED Table on a bunch of blogs and instantly knew I must have my own. I contacted the people over at Evil Mad Scientist about their kits, and put in my order. That was in October, and I have been slowly
This Wii mod is one of the most extreme mods I have seen for the Nintendo Wii so far. The video goes over the mods that this machine went through. “After a long time of work I have completed my Wii Here is my Worklist: -lightbar led exchange to Ice blue -clear/black case install -internal gecko adapter -internal GC memorycard -black painted Wii drive -black painted metal back plate -leds
Bruce Land teaches a great course at Cornell University called Advanced Microcontroller Systems on a Programmable Chip (ECE576). This looks to be the big brother to this course. Bruce was kind enough to drop us a line to share the latest group of ECE576 Final Projects. They are all impressive but here are a few of my favorites. This is the Light Source Motion Tracking project. One thing to remember
I am very happy to be introducing another new writer today. Tony Nunn, an Electrical Engineering student from Cleveland Ohio will be adding some interesting articles for all of us to enjoy. He runs a small electronic repair business, and also works for the University newspaper. Like many of us Tony is interested in taking things apart to see how they work, his repair business allows him to do this
Wow what a hack! SMS your hacked cell phone and it will take a picture and send it back to you! Have a look at the details of this Remote Controlled Camera from a Cellphone that uses a Picaxe microcontroller. I would dare anyone to try to take this onto a plane. I am sure the conversation would include “Honestly it is just a remote camera that looks like a
The results are in. Here is the list of winners for the last comment contest. Lee, comment 6 wins the Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software package.. Huge 1GB IBM Hard Drive feki00, comment 3 wins the $25 ThinkGeek gift certificate. Robot Arm Clocks Elepski, comment 6 wins the $25 Make Store gift certificate Computer Controlled Water Spray System One $99 Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software package. Thanks to
Andres Bella has created a cool Mech Robot that is powered by a Parallax Microcontroller. “I used a Basic Stamp II microcontroller, is pretty easy to program, and it does everything I need for this project, I got a Power Started that is a very good power supply and gives me enough juice to power up all the electronics, the motors, and the compressor. The micro-controlled controls the solenoids valve
