Diodes can be used for temperature sensing. Nick Chernyy used this principle to make a Diode based Fan Controller for his Shuttle PC. “Figuring that I should just go build a more substantial fan controller myself, I promptly went to the lab to look for a thermistor. Unable to find one, I settled for the next best thing: a diode. After building the circuit, I tested the output with a
Working on a command line Linux system and want to watch a YouTube video? Until now you were out of luck. Warren Harding has designed a program that reads in a YouTube video and plays it using ASCII text! “This is a concept video depicting how users can surf and even watch videos from youtube with out the use of a Graphical User Interface. The operating System is linux
Microsoft is not the only player in the Multitouch computer table system. Actually, Alessandro Valli has been working on this concept for many years. Have a look at the latest work out of Natural Interaction. “SensitiveTable’s interface, Skin, is at an advanced stage of development. Last month’s tech demo shows some of the features we are investigating. The multitouch table itself now features zero force sensitivity.”
Imagitronics from Japan shared his latest creation with us in the Hacked Gadgets forum. It’s a USB Controlled Traffic Light Status Indicator which he built to show the number of running applications at a glance. “I retrofitted this generic “Blinking Traffic Light†with a USB module and wrote a simple Mac application to monitor my computer usage and reflect the results in by changing the stoplight. This project was born
Check out this Computer Controlled Room Ambilight Controller that Mike built. I didn’t realize that there was an open source program that would perform the same screen analysis as the Phillips Ambilight system, this gives me some ideas… Video after the jump. “What it basically does is, it waits for info from the PC through the RS232 interface and then controlls the brightness of the different collors. I then wrote
Our Danish friends David Pedersen and the guys from AC/KW got together and built a CNC machine from scratch. There are lots of videos and pictures of the build on the site. Have a look at the 3D Hacked Gadgets logo, this machine does a great job! “The CNC mill has been built from scratch. We’ve even made our own controller board to drive the stepper motors that power the
Is there no end to the cool projects that can be done with the Wiimote? I wonder how many people are buying a Wiimote without the console to play around with and make cool hacks like this one? “Nice experiment using my Nintendo Wiimote as a controller for the OSC frequency of my Moog Little Phatty… (Check out the OSC knob cursor moving on the LP) It sound like
