Have a look at the Propeller Microcontroller based Floor Lamp that Jason Dorie has put together. His CNC machine was instrumental in the build since the board that you see was routed on the CNC machine with the trace isolation method, this is where a copper clad board has the material around the traces and pads routed away. It uses about 24 watts at full brightness and Jason says that
Remember those magic 8 balls that would help you make decisions? Well Pete Mills decided to make one but of course it isn’t filled with fluid this Magic 8 Ball is filled with electronic goodness. It is controlled by a ATMega328 and if you want to make your own Pete has posted the code here. “You can see the mercury switch in the picture below. It is hot glued to
What do you use your touchpad for? Moving a mouse around on your computer screen? Well now there is a cool new use for your typical computer touchpad, Dave from Plastibots has made a Dual LED Desk Light Controller that uses it for lighting control. “Relative mode is the norm. Â It works like you would expect it to on a laptop. Â No matter where you put your finger and move
Peter Balch who is a hardware designer from Scotland sent in this great looking Steampunk Mouse Hack. It is made out of wood just the original mouse was. The green glow on the brain in the jar is great, but it isn’t for the squeamish since you are holding a brain after all. Peter built the project from some guts of an optical mouse which he hacked into a mush
If you enjoy photography you know that it can be very hard to capture certain events. Our friend Viktor has built this DIY Lightning Detection for Photography which has a PIC microcontroller controlling the events. The photodiode monitors the ambient light levels and triggers the camera when it sees a lightning strike. This project is safe for your camera since it is optically isolated for your cameras protection. Viktor will
Now that spring has arrived you might be looking for something new to build that can be used outside. Why not make something that can be used to protect your property in a non-lethal way? We have see lots of sentry guns over the years but quite a few of them has closed source code. This Sentry Gun Project has code that has been released which is sure to help
I haven’t been keeping up with the Ben Heck show for the past few months, back in September we featured the the Ben Heck Show when Ben built the custom XBOX controller. I had a look this weekend and Ben has been very busy making lots of new episodes. Love the huge ShopBot CNC machine. Ben goes through lots of the build steps that go into making his projects but
