Not sure if there are any camera tricks here, if there isn’t this is an amaizing chair. Don’t mistake it for the common walking chair. “Raffaello D’Andrea’s latest dynamic art project, a chair that falls apart then puts itself back together! From the same artist who brought you the robotic table.” read more | digg story
John Solid has captured some fantastic tesla coil discharge pictures using his solid state tesla coil . There are pictures and descriptions of the entire project. “The Magnifier Coil has a resonant frequency of 150.3 KHz. It is wound on a 5.625 outside diameter PVC pipe. The winding length is 21.9 inches made of 24 guage enamel insulated magnet wire. The capacitive load for the coil is a toroid constructed
Not sure if I would have the effort to build a model like this! But the 15 years of work shows, the details are amazing. Many of the hand crafted parts were made under a microscope. “Fully scratch built, this model took just over 15 years (8000-10,000 hours) to complete. Begun in Kiev (Ukraine), in 1986 this masterpiece was profoundly difficult to construct due to the extreme scarcity of information
Jos van Eijndhoven has proved that high end audio equipment does not have to be bought at a store. His audio DAC (digital to analog converter) is proof that with lots of knowledge and some hard work it can be a DIY project! “Features of this new DAC: * Four separate SPDIF inputs are provided. For now one is configured as optical-in, the other 3 as coax-in. The microcontroller that
OK this is another Nixie clock right? WRONG! Ryan Brooks has gone old school, he built this clock around 31 year old processor technology! The controller chip is a MOS 6502, unlike modern microcontrollers this CPU requires a host of supporting circuitry and logic for it function. Ryan has all of the details you need to build your own on his site. “So, I wanted a Nixie clock and I
The Leaf is an interesting artificial intelligence and vision robotic system. It is open source, software and construction details are available on the Leaf Project Web site. There are three Leaf system developers: * Bruce Weimer who has made some other very interesting systems. * Robin Hewitt, she likes to see what makes robots tick. * Alex Brown who, no surprise, has also made some interesting robots. “From Left to
Thomas Grocutt has built a PC based oscilloscope. He has full plans and build information on his site so you can build your own! “The initial purpose of this project was to create a cheap, easy to use digital storage oscilloscope (DSO). However we have gone a bit further since the original idea. One of the biggest problems with most DSO’s is there small storage depth, we decided to solve
