Here is good way to recycle some of those old CD-ROM drives that you probably have laying around. Jason Dorie took inspiration from my Hard Drive Clock for his build. You can see the details in these three posts. CD-ROM Clock Part 1, CD-ROM Clock Part 2, CD-ROM Clock Part 3. “Basically I’m using the motor and CD holder from the drive, as well as most of the original
Carl sent in this Spinning RGB LED Ball Display project that he did when he was only 16! The visual effects are fantastic. There are a few images of the actual system at the end of the video and it looks very well done. Hopefully we can get some more pictures of the system.
The guys over at Mana Potions have developed a cool new way to play the new AION and get some exercise at the same time. Looks like running and flapping at the same time may be kind of hard but it is a good idea to get a bit of a workout. I wonder how long it will be before more game consoles and game manufactures make exercise part of
This Arduino GPS Game that won the Let Arduino Play contest over at Brico Geek looks like fun. Unlike normal games where you simply interact within the imaginary game space this one uses GPS to bring the game play into the real world. If someone would like to provide a few sentences that describe the game a bit better I would love to publish that. 🙂 ADDED Sept 23
Before you say this LED Controller doesn’t look micro, have a look at the board in the picture below with a 9 volt battery snap to compare it to. This board is tiny! You could hide this thing in model cars, train sets, props, this list goes on an on. Also the interface is a single button, it doesn’t get much simpler than that. 🙂 Via: HG Forum
Steve Hoefer has completed version 2 of his Dice Reading project (Version 1 can be found here). I was surprised to see that only 5 locations of the dice are looked at to determine what number is present since there are actually nine locations where the pips could be located. It obviously works but for some reason isn’t obvious to me at this moment! "This version uses 5 IR
I love a good WALL-E hack and here is a cool one where WALL-E will alert you when you get new emails. TotoroYamada from Lets Make Robots has some great documentation of his build. I can think of lots of cool applications for a robot that can get my attention by waving its arms around. 🙂 If this was made a few months ago I think it would have
