If my fire alarm bell alarm clock clashes with your industrial decor have a look at this Indestructible Binary Alarm Clock. This clock will force you to get up and walk out the door before it shuts off! "When I was laying awake again I started thinking about building the ultimate alarm clock. After some tinkering I decided that it should have these features: It should use an actual
We have featured DIY Induction Heaters here before. There is something about heating a big chunk of metal with no contact that is so appealing. Uzzors2k has a great write-up about his experiments with his Induction Heater, it is filled with trial and error which we can all learn from. "To test my new driver I had a large work coil and tank capacitor already built for a previous
Cisco is running a cool contest with some wicked prizes. The top prizes are two $10,000 giveaways! All you need to do is record a 3 minute video about either your digital heaven or hell. You have until November 26th to enter so you will have to act fast. Here are two of my favorite videos: Ken’s Retro Crib Fully Automated and Wired House! "Submit a video (up to
Steve from Finkbuilt has put together a cool DIY FOG Screen, unlike the commercial models that cost tens of thousands he built his on a DIY hobbyist budget. The video shows a perfect application which is a scary Halloween evil eye. "The effect uses rear-projection video, shined onto a screen of water vapor created by ultrasonic atomization, that is sandwiched between 2 laminar airflows, which keep the sheet of
Ashish Derhgawen has done lots of interesting work with vision. You can see all of his projects on his Ashish’s Programming Journal. Best of all the vision is captured with a simple webcam which makes these projects possible for any hobbyist. Here are a few links to my favorite projects of his. Laser Pointer used as a Mouse (first video). Pan Tilt Webcam using a Mouse (second video). This
This AVR Microcontroller Based Video Game board is very well made for a prototype board! It goes to show that with the power of a modern day microcontroller you can do what used to take many huge boards full of electronics not that long ago. "When I started with the AVRs, i was wondering if it would be possible to create a fluid game like Super Mario Bros, based
This LEGO Safe project demonstrates the creativeness you can have using LEGO. No, you wouldn’t want to store your diamonds in this safe, but if this locking scheme was implemented in a real safe I think it would be sound. "Put away your valuables in this Lego Mindstorms NXT Safe and nobody ever can get even close to it! This 6,5 Kilogram heavy weight SAFE has an electronic code
