The spring 2011 batch of Cornell University ECE 4760 Designing with Microcontrollers Final Projects are out. Be prepared to spend a few hours browsing through the details of these cool projects. There is everything from a human tracking fan system to a DJ Touchscreen Device. If you are into playing rock paper scissors have a look at the ECE 4760 project below. David Dunn and Chris Fairfax designed and built
If you had an Atari computer years ago you might remember the 810 floppy drive. Rossum decided to have some fun and make a 8 GB version which is just a bit smaller than the original. The heart of the hack is a microSDdrive with a microcontroller which handles the interface. Via: Make, HackaDay “The hardware is pretty simple: a LPC1114 microcontroller, a microSD slot, a 3v3 regulator, a led
Check out this keyboard mod that Charlie Webb from NortHACKton came up with. You can never have too much automation, I love the big red button which allows a predetermined string of text to be sent to the computer when pressed. There are some additional pictures and schematics here. “NortHACKton member, Charlie Webb, recently completed this project based around an arduino and a keyboard. Fed up with the way Windows
The ALS EEG Project is being held in Ort Hermalin Collage in Natanya Israel by Alon Bukai and Ofir Benyamin under the guidance of Amnon Demri. Another video is here. Thanks Amnon. “Our system works by use of a helmet which reads EEG signals sent through the brain. These signals are then interpreted by the headset and sent to the laptop attached to the ALS Patients’ wheelchair. From here the
What do you use your touchpad for? Moving a mouse around on your computer screen? Well now there is a cool new use for your typical computer touchpad, Dave from Plastibots has made a Dual LED Desk Light Controller that uses it for lighting control. “Relative mode is the norm. Â It works like you would expect it to on a laptop. Â No matter where you put your finger and move
Peter Balch who is a hardware designer from Scotland sent in this great looking Steampunk Mouse Hack. It is made out of wood just the original mouse was. The green glow on the brain in the jar is great, but it isn’t for the squeamish since you are holding a brain after all. Peter built the project from some guts of an optical mouse which he hacked into a mush
Now that spring has arrived you might be looking for something new to build that can be used outside. Why not make something that can be used to protect your property in a non-lethal way? We have see lots of sentry guns over the years but quite a few of them has closed source code. This Sentry Gun Project has code that has been released which is sure to help
