We have all seen these floating globes in the novelty stores and online. How would you like to build one? J. Hodgie has put together an article that will walk you through the required steps to make your own. The code for the Atmel ATMega168 Microcontroller is also provided. “It is much like the floating globes you can buy, except it works by balancing the forces of permanent magnets with
Rafael Mizrahi, the QA Lead at Mainsoft sent in this cool video of a Nintendo Wiimote that is used to debug .NET code! I wonder if the bluetooth Wiimote interface to the computer is being handled using Carl Kenner’s Glovepie or if Rafael created his own from scratch? Either way, Great job!
Above is a video of what could be the next generation of computer interface. It is obviously very raw but if it were mounted in a mouse shaped device and made wireless it could be a winner. Actually it would be very similar to the Wiimote since the Wiimote uses accelerometers to read controller movement and Bluetooth to transmit that data to the controller. Popular Science gave an invention
These Gesture Controlled Lamps use the Arduino Microcontroller to detect movement and adjust the lights accordingly. If you want to get your hands on a free Arduino microcontroller have a look at the latest uC Hobby giveaway. “Gestures in front of any lamp affect all the lamps. The lamps all show the same display, but it depends on which lamp generated the triggering event. For those of you new to
Pyrofer has made some significant advancements with a game he is designing with a cell phone LCD and a PIC 12f675 microcontroller. Video after the jump. “You can see ive managed to draw a basic map on the screen. The size of this map is limited by the ram, as the objects within have to change it cant be a rom map. There isnt enough RAM. Ive had to be
Check out this Nokia 6280 Phone Zoom Lens Hack, thanks to Mzungo from the forum for pointing it out! “Resently the cameras on cellphones are getting better and better. How ever the optics on them are mostly crap made of cheap plastic. Then i spawned the idea “Why not oparate an SLR lens on to the cell?†This hack will give you 36x optical zoom on your cell just because
StaTT’s Hacks has made a cool looking pen out of a soldering iron. If I ever own a company where a lobby and receptionist is required something like this may be needed for the sign in/out book. 🙂
