Nate True has made a very cool device that is controlled by a PIC microcontroller. The controller uses a strobe effect to make water drops look like they are running backwards! “It all started when my friend Jesse told me that if you get a strobe light fast enough, you can make it look like dripping water is going in slow motion or even backwards. This phenomenon happens because
Not much to say about this one. For this mod a picture is truly worth a thousand words! “For some reason I had a thought on trying to combine a graphical LCD with a computer mouse. Perhaps this had something to do with my review of Logitech’s G15 Gaming keyboard six months back. Like in my MouseFan mod that I did in 2001, I decided to joke around by addind
Interesting mod, this makes an old laptop into a pong clock. It works in same way the wall hanging pong clock worked. Via: TechEBlog
Looks like a big undertaking as a project, but the solar generator sounds like a great way to produce power. “During a stint in the Peace Corps in Lesotho in southern Africa, Matthew Orosz, an MIT graduate student advised by Harold Hemond, professor of civil and environmental engineering, learned that reflective parabolic troughs can bake bread. Now he plans to use these same contraptions to bring power to parts of
Is it me or are pee games catching on? Can’t say that I have ever played one but if I saw one I would give it a try… The top picture is of a game made by Topspeed and the lower picture and video are of the You’re In Control device. “The virtual car has four gears and each gear is controlled by a little seesaw in the urinal. The
It is hard to imagine what will be possible with direct mind control in the next dozen years. Will we be driving cars with no steering wheel? Read the research paper (warning it is a PDF). “Researchers at the University of Plymouth created this “Brain-Computer Music Interfaceâ€, which uses two laptops to analyze brain waves and composes music based on the results. The BCMI-Piano (Figure 1) falls into the
If you are feeling ambitious this real time eye tracking system it completely open source. Download the code and start hacking. “openEyes is an open-source open-hardware toolkit for low-cost real-time eye tracking. The purpose of openEyes is to provide a hardware design and a set of software tools useful for the analysis of eye movement data. The development of openEyes stems from the recognition in the eye tracking and
