Check out the latest Microsoft technology, it is Gesture Controlled Computer using a Webcam. “Using a $30 dollar camera and this piece of Podtech software that’s still in development, you can play with computers just like Tom Cruise did in Minority Report, by grabbing files by the nipples and dragging them around the screen. Using topological depth technology, it figures out what’s the static background, and differentiates it between
You may remember an RFID project that was featured here last year by The Digital Dawg Pound. Nick has come up with a new and improved RFID Door Entry System. Video after the jump. “I decided to try and improve the reliability and responsiveness of my previous RFID front door project (based around a client / server design), by re-implementing it using the Parallax BASIC Stamp 2e, and the 13.5MHz
There has been quite a few temperature devices featured here in the past. This temperature logger is nice since it uses one of my favorite temperature sensing chips, the DS18B20. This sensor is digital and does not need any calibration. When I make my next batch of home brew beer there will definitely be a DS18B20 floating in it. Or if I have some extra DS1822 devices from the fish
Thanks to everyone who left comments for the latest Hacked Gadgets contest, there were some very interesting discussions and thoughts expressed. This small contest was lots of fun, stay tuned for more contests in the near future. Also thanks to everyone for all of the emails and posted comments regarding future prize ideas and new contest ideas, keep the ideas coming. And the winner is… Drum roll please…… The
Mattias sent in his high end coffee brewing method!
Japala sent in his Dremel Foot Pedal Mod that allows you to control your Dremel power using your foot. Video after the jump. “For me personally having two hands free to operate when carving is a definite plus. One hand can be used to hold the object while other hand can handle the tool. So where would one need the third arm? Dremel’s, Ferm’s, Proxxon’s rotary tools have one thing
I could think of about a hundred ways to make a simpler clock, but this Ball Bearing Clock looks fantastic. Video after the jump. "I though about building a clock with a pendulum activated by the fall of bearing balls. The first thing to design was the engine which was to sustain the pendulum’s oscillation: how to get enough energy from a ball to make this possible? The balls
