Puget Systems built a few versions of a Computer cooled using a Mineral Oil filled Fish Tank. They have run it in various forms for about a year and a half so far! I would have thought that this system would have lasted long enough to marvel at the feat but die a short time later. This project proves my prediction wrong. I don’t think I would recommend it
Some of the music that this creation can produce is wonderful! I love the clack clack of the solenoids working in rhythm. Have a look at the build details here. "The Waldflöte project is a MIDI retrofit to a 1890s Gray and Davison pipe organ located in the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh. It converts MIDI input into solenoid drive to directly press the keys on one of the manuals
The guys from NerdKits have come up with a neat way to drive a small RC car using their iPhone. The video below goes through some of the details, if you have some similar ideas you can use their code as a starting point since they have made it available! "Layering different simple systems together to perform one complex task is really at the heart of what engineering is
With inspiration from this Sprites Mods hack, Bidouille.org has done a cool new version of the hack. Using an Arduino Microcontroller and some custom code the data from the Agilent technologies chip is retrieved. Have a look at this document (PDF) for some more details on what makes the technology work. "Relationship to Object Motion The relationship between the optical flow in the image plane and the velocities of
Just a reminder to catch the first episode of Prototype This. It should be good!
The WowWee Rovio robot looks like a great robot on its own but with some extra software from our friends at Robots Rule it can be controlled using a Wiimote! "To run Robodance in conjunction with the WowWee Rovio spy robot you will need A personal computer running Windows 2000 or better. If you want to control your Rovio over the Web with a Nintendo Wii Remote you will
I could use this unit that Kevin Timmerman designed! I have the same digital caliper that he designed the serial interface for. Project Page. "The caliper sends a burst of data approximately three times each second. Each burst contains 48 bits of data as shown in timing.pdf. The first 24 bits are the position relative to the zero point set on the caliper. The second 24 bits are the
