Proto G sent in his latest project. It is a DIY WiFi Smoke Detector that he built to monitor his battery storage area. The system uses IFTTT (If this then that) to send out the messages. A full walk through of the device will be coming soon.
Do you need some help getting out of bed in the morning? This High Voltage Ejector Bed doesn’t give you gradual wake up music, a slow simulates sun rise, sun from motorized blinds or any other pleasant method of starting your day.  This system rings warning bells, flashes warning lights and blasts you our of bed with pneumatics. I think this would be very effective and would be used faithfully
I remember making a hand launched flyer using a straw and 2 circular hoops of paper. This Circle Plane when scaled up is very impressive. It doesn’t look all that controllable but the other planes had a blast flying through the large moving target. It was nice that the body and hoop were made out of cheap materials so a bit of destruction was not a big deal.
Gene Bransfield delivered a funny presentation at DEFCON about pets and technology. “DoS Dog: With apologies to LadyMerlin (who has since blessed the project) I attended Outerz0ne one year and LadyMerlin brought her dog. They had labeled the puppy the “Denial of Service Dog†as the pooch demanded so much attention that it was impossible to complete any task other than petting the dog. I thought that if you
A well timed strobe light can do some amazing things. Artist Elliot Schultz placed these embroidered patterns on a record player (which naturally spins at a known stable speed). The resulting images are fun to look at. Via: Make and Laughing Squid “This project encourages viewers to watch and engage with animation physically. Discs were created with animated sequences embroidered onto their surface. They have been designed to be played
The Geek Group does an interesting Aviation Equipment Teardown. It is interesting that when something isn’t built as cheap as possible so that it can compete on a shelf at Walmart you see some really robust well built equipment. This chunk of gear is meant to last and take a beating without failure. No skimping on the mechanical design, electronic design and component selection.
A look Inside the EDSAC Computer shows us how much we take for granted these days. Funny how when there are no concepts to work with the methods of storing and executing information you get things like mercury delay systems.
