Owen sent in his cool Touch Screen Hack for his TI 84 Plus Calculator. He is using an Arduino to read in the data from a Nintendo touch screen, the touch data is then sent to the calculator’s serial port so that it can then graph images based on where the screen is being touched. Did I mention that Owen is 16! I am trying to think what I was
Next time you are going to be leaving your house unattended for a long duration why not allow your house to send you a text message if there’s an intruder? That is exactly what Noel Portugal did with an ioBridge module and a few motion sensors. If that wasn’t enough the ioBridge has been programmed to pan the camera in the direction of the motion. If you want an ioBridge
A Turing Machine is something that you just think about, it isn’t a physical machine. Well now it is! Mike Davey has spent some time to create one. Mike built his Turing Machine to look the part however inside you will fine a Parallax microcontroller as the heart. Via: Make and HackADay “A Turing machine is a theoretical device that manipulates symbols contained on a strip of tape. Despite its
Have a look at these two cool Secret Box projects that PICing4fun has uploaded. They were created years ago but he just recently got them online. They are both built around PIC microcontrollers and the code was written in native ASM machine language. The first one is a 6 sided box in the form of a dice, you need to roll the dice in a way that a certain pattern
If you are looking for something cool to do with your iPod Touch have a look at what Dave Phipps has done with his ’69 Pontiac GTO. Using an iPod Touch interfaced to a RedEye controller he now has remote control of many features. He has a good range (WiFi range) and can remotely open the windows, doors trunk and soft top. He can also start the car and rev
Our friend Muris from elektronika.ba has sent in his latest project. It is a Phone Recorder that records all phone conversations in the entire house. There is also no need to turn it on or off, it monitors the phone line and starts recording as soon as a phone is picked up. It stores all of the conversations in MP3 format for easy storage or review. There is an archive
If you are looking for a nice DIY Binary Clock design have a look at this one by Kenneth Finnegan. It uses a sweet DS3232 RTC, but at a cost of $7.63 it better also do the dishes… “The time is kept by a DS3232, which is a very cool chip in that it has a built in temperature sensor, which it uses to compensate the crystal to try and
