In the day where every store bought Halloween prop and most DIY props have some type of controller making things happen in the background it is neat to see a design like this. Youtube user badephemeris has built this Drum controlled Animatronic Halloween Head. Like a player piano or some of the old music boxes it uses a reads information from a rolling drum to make things happen. In this
Russell Cameron built this Puppy Robot for his son to play with and after watching the video I can see that it was a huge success! “The robot is relatively simple to build and is made from robot parts and accessories available in many online robot shops. You only need a couple of screwdrivers and some pliers. No soldering required!.”
Don Howdeshell sent in this great Arduino Ambilight project. Sure seems like the Ambilight projects will continue to be popular. This one uses an Arduino at the core and ShiftBrite LED lights. You can see the effects here before the diffusion was added but make sure you watch the video below where the full effects of the lighting system are shown off! “The first challenge was to construct my own
We have seen lots of Hard Drive Clocks, my original one is now looking quite poor in the build quality zone. Till this point if you wanted a Hard Drive Clock you would need to built one yourself by either taking inspiration from the other builds out there or making your own from scratch. Phillip Smith is running a Kickstarter to hopefully change this and make a hard drive clock
It is nice to be able to see a status of equipment at a glance. A power on light on the power bar, some flashing lights on the router are some things that can be glanced at to ensure everything is operating properly. A server on the other hand is a bit trickier, you might want to see what the load is like on the server, check some ping times,
This LC Meter was built using a Microchip PIC 16F628A. It would make life a bit easier when attempting to identify a few of those components that are always left over on the desk after building a project. Mine are often dumped into a miscellaneous box with other various components which makes it even more difficult to identify later… I think this meter would make a great addition to my
My daughter Alexis and I worked on this Karate Chop project as an entry into the Avnet Dog Days Summer Contest. She had the idea to make a game to enter in the entertainment section of the contest. The game she came up with was a reaction game where you have to quickly move to the correct indicated position. Four infrared detection circuits was the resulting method used to detect
