If you can get your hands on a Rand McNally GPS this Rand McNally GPS Hack will show you how to get the serial data out of it. Since these GPS devices are quite old now they should be quite cheap. Does anyone know of a cheaper serial GPS solution? If so please share it with me. 🙂 “Buy a RandMcNally GPS for the Palm III from http://www.randmcnally.com The GPS
If you are wanting to add some bass to your home theater why build a Huge Rubik’s Cube Subwoofer! It isn’t as big as this gigantic subwoofer but it looks a lot more fun. "Sealed Enclosure: 3 Cu. Feet Driver Diameter: 15", Aluminum Cone Outer Enclosure: 3/4" MDF Shell with 3/4" MDF ’tiles’ overlaying it, forming the Rubik’s Squares Reinforcement: 1 Y/Z-Axis piece of 3/4" MDF, cut to
Matt Denton of MicroMagic Systems specializes in animatronics for the film industry. Check out the very interesting (creepy) face tracking robot called i.c Hexapod. “i.c. Hexapod interacts with people by following them around. If his gaze is held long enough, he takes a picture and uploads it to a website: hexapodrobot.com” Some additional information (thanks Matt): “The hexapod was my fourth generation robot, and took around 2 weeks to
Here are a few more elaborate Halloween Light Shows. I wish I had the time to put one of these together… One of these years I will have to make some time. I think I would make a light controller instead of buying one though since the good lighting controllers seem to be quite expensive. I think the popular Christmas Light Show also used the same controller.
You might not have enough time to build this LED Hat in time for Halloween this year but if you start now you should be finished by next year! It is hard to understand the complexity of this project without thinking about how it works for a few moments… “Okay, so I bought an AVR STK500 programmer board for about £80 from http://uk.farnell.com, which comes with an ATmega16 and an
Got kids cutting through your yard all the time? Is the solution a fence? No way that is what everyone else does and is so yesterday… What a true geek does is builds a Computer Controlled Water Spray System to get the job done! “As you can see I have met a bunch of my goals in prototype 1, I can shoot about 30 feet and can cover a
Trossen Robotics just had a project contest and the winners were all great. The second place Computer Controlled BBQ Smoker is my favorite out of the lineup! It uses the same logic that I use, anything can be improved with automation and electronics. 🙂 “Details: I/O: Phidgets 8/8/8 Inputs: Standard Meat Probe Thermistor Outputs: Phidgets Servo controller, Futaba Servo Software: Custom VB.NET application Software Process: Thermistor generates resistance with
