Is your desktop quad core computer a bit slow for your liking? If SGI develops this concept into an actual product you may be able to add some horsepower to your computing needs. "Engineers at Silicon Graphics research labs developed the system to show how consumer electronics technologies and emerging marketplace trends might someday be applied to overcome the limits of today’s high-throughput clusters. The Silicon Graphics Molecule concept
A Gyroscope, Accelerometer and Magnetometer are used to allow a small electronic device that is worn in a boot to keep track of your movements and therefore your actual location.
These football playing robots look simple at first until you see how they operate. Robofoot is one of the competitors in the annual Robocup challenge. "Robofoot is a student initiative devoted to the development of autonomous and cooperative multi-robots systems. The main goal of the project is to be the first Canadian team to participate in the Robot World Cup Soccer Games, the RoboCup (www.robocup.org), in the Middle Size
Eric (Turd) from the Hacked Gadgets Forum has shared a project that he has been working on. He has made a FreeBasic program that interfaced to a custom circuit board that he designed and built. This will allow a computer to control an LCD display. This gives you lots of possibilities such as having a temperature monitor or CPU usage display for easy viewing. All the code and schematics
This is a proof of concept project that contains lots of great code and helpful tips that could help us out when we are working on a similar Ethernet / microcontroller project. Project abstract (pdf) Entire Project Details (zip) The “Ethernet Picture Viewer” is a low cost device that allows a user to visualize graphic content stored on a computer in an LAN. A server application that runs on
We have featured a monitor repair that Bob Davis has provided in the past. He has come up with a new design that may help some of you out if you have a dead monitor backlight. "The LED’s are spaced at about 1/2 inches apart by using the edge of a cardboard box as can be seen below. This was the test setup, in the final assembly the LED’s
Medix has been working on some interesting projects but as some of you know I have a soft spot for hard disk drive projects. By removing the drive motor and platters there was room to install a shutter in the center. The voice coil that normally moves the read/write head is then used to actuate the shutter open and closed. It can be connected to some external control equipment
