If you are into telescopes and DIY projects this project is for you. Check out the full plans for the Trackball Telescope! “Jerry Oltion calls it a trackball telescope, and he’s distributing plans for its design free of charge. Parts needed: a rubber ball, a bucket, some plastic pipe, a Bic pen shell and assorted hardware. The trackball is amazingly easy to set up. Just put the mount on a
Just what I need in my house, a man made tornado. Based on these plans this work of art was created. ” I built a tornado machine using instructions from www.weather-photography.com and doing some of my own modifications. It works really well! I took a video of it at different angles, closeups, and even inside the storm just to show you how cool this thing is! it was hard work,
Most people love watching a good fireworks display but have no idea what is needed to pull off a good show. Here is some behind the scenes action that is sure to please. “Aerial Fireworks An aerial firework is normally formed as a shell that consists of four parts: * Container – Usually pasted paper and string formed into a cylinder * Stars – Spheres, cubes or cylinders of
The Handy is an interesting project by Zaizhuang Cheng, Derrick Ko, Colin Tan and Naga Setiawan from Purdue University. Very impressive since the parts cost is around $100.00. “The motivation is to provide a button-free environment in which the user can just use hand gestures to control the sound system. For example, when the user is driving, all he has to do is perform the appropriate hand gestures to
If you are looking to sniff for RFID information, this is the project for you! “In this study we show that the modeling predictions are quite accurate. We show how to build a portable, extended-range RFID skimmer, using only electronics hobbyist supplies and tools. Our skimmer is able to read ISO-14443 tags from a distance of $25cm, uses a lightweight 40cm-diameter copper-tube antenna, is powered by a 12V battery–and requires
This site includes the board layout and code to make this ATmega128 powered LED sign. If you speak German here is the original German site. “Again such a crazy project of me. It began with the fact that I with EBay a mountain LED of modules ersteigert. And from this this enormous LED became panel. Whom is too enormous, there is also a small brother. Here times the technical data:
Bre Pettis from Make has some cool video coverage of the 2006 Robogames.
