This technology allows everyday items such as a chalkboard to become interactive. “Sensitive Object attempts particularly to make day to day objects interactive by proposing man-machine interfaces (MMI) that are particularly innovative, which use the sense of touch and adapt to all forms of electric or electronic commands (switches, pushbuttons, keyboard keys, control panels…)”
Why buy test equipment when you can make your own? Edwin made a capacitance meter using a PIC16F873A as the brains. If you want to make your own there is code and a schematic provided on his site. “This is an autoranged version, which means one does not need to adjust the range settings. Furthermore, the measuring range is quite large, from 5pF all the way to 2600uF. It is
Smell-O-Vision has been talked about for years. It looks like it may become available to the masses soon. I can think of some shows that would be great with it on and some that would not! “According to the BBC article, Professor Nakamoto’s team synchronized a scene from the animated film “Spirited Away” with scents from the Odor Recorder. Initial studies show audience members recalled the accented scene more vividly
Pete Redmond from Mechatrons has created a robot that can solve the Rubik’s Cube. Many robots have done this in the past but this robot does it in a human fashion! “This is the new version of RuBot by Pete Redmond from Dublin, Ireland. It’s very different to the prototype but it has to be the coolest looking robot solver ever. There are cameras in the eyes of the
This display looks very nice, if you are interested in building one (and can find the Russian VFD) the device pinout and code for the controller is available on JKX@Home. Project part 1. Project part 2. “After my nixie clock, I decided to build a new one based on a old VFD vacuum tube. In fact, the brother of a friend (which live in Ukrainia) give me a bag
Volunteer Lab Rat has an interesting project allowing you to build a 3D Scanner out of some common parts. “The following blueprint shows an exploded view of the vital components of the rotating table. I use an R/C servo to rotate the table. It would be easier to construct a table using a steppermotor, but I had an R/C servo on the shelf. The servo cannot rotate a full 360
You may remember this tiny Web server. Well I guess small Web servers are the in thing right now . Is that a Web server in your pocket… (well you know the rest). Have a look at this Newton Web Server, not very powerful but it is amazing that it even works! If you are lucky you will even see a page served up by the tiny server by clicking
