The Pileus looks very interesting, this device will make you the envy of everyone on a street corner. I can just imagine someone asking for directions, you could just say sure, please step under my Pileus Umbrella and I will show you how to get there. “Pileus is an umbrella connected to the Internet to make walking in rainy days fun. Pileus has a large screen on the top surface,
Overview I wanted a simple remote that could be used to easily control the volume and mute the TV when the phone rings. I have replaced all of my remotes with a single Harmony 880 control which works great, but I wanted something a bit more cool to compliment it. Building the retro remote was fun and simple since the mini remote that I used was very easy
Laserlight has made a new Dual Laser Light Saber, you may remember the single version from last year. “The smooth light growing retracting effect when used seperately. Cool Works as either two separate sabers or one dual blade saber.” Thanks Steve.
Treehuggers, this is a post that you may want to skip. Bill Shackelford has come up with an interesting way of dealing with spam. Spamtrap receives spam, prints the email and immediately shreds the paper. Of course in this case everything that comes to that email address is spam but I could see getting some satisfaction if I could send all of my manually deleted emails to a device like
The Retractable Alarm Clock is one of the Cornell University Microcontroller Design Final Projects. Colleen Carey and Vincent Zou have made a product that has a concept that could be marketable. I am not much of a morning person and the snooze button is always handy, this could work for people like me. 🙂 “The Retractable Alarm Clock is the next generation alarm clock that combines both active alarm feature
Not the easiest DIY project but this homemade Homemade Oscilloscope looks and works great. “Homemade Cathode Ray Tube with cold cathode. Vacuum is somewhere between 100 – 200 microns, easily attainable with amateur equipment. Vertical deflection is done using an electrostatic plate. This CRT is used as an oscilloscope to display a signal from a sound synthesizer. “
The Anti-Tracker is a PIC 16F628 based GPS project that you may be interested in building. The author provides source code upon request. “The AntiTracker is a new concept in GPS tracking systems. The idea behind the AntiTracker is that many units in the field do not need to have their positions reported back. These field units are however interested in where the units being tracked are. The AntiTracker BASIC
