DIY Hacks

Planetary Gear Business Card

  If you are looking to impress you can make a cool Planetary Gear Business Card. If that isn’t for you then have a look at this circuit board business card or this metal business card that belongs to the Woz. "Cut from card or bristol and assemble like a sandwich. The middle layer needs to be appreciably thicker than the others; I cut it twice and glued the bits

ASUS EEE PC Touchscreen Install

  If you have a Asus EEE PC and wish it had a touchscreen you are in luck! For about $50 you can install one. "what your going to need. 7" USB Plug-n-Play Touch Screen Digitizer for Asus Eee PC 701 UMPC Laptops $37.50usd Super Mini Bluetooth 2.0 Adapter Dongle $4.50usd Super Mini Retractable Metal Stylus with Strap$1.95usd World Smallest Transflash TF / MicroSD USB 2.0 Card Reader Keychain$2.28usd total:

How to Build a Huge Christmas Lighting Display

If you are thinking about putting on a big light show this year and time and money are not a problem then you should have a look at the Holden Lighting Display! Other than the expensive controllers it does sound like the builder does have a knack for finding good after season deals on many of his light strands. Behind the scene look at How to Build a Huge Christmas

Parallax BS2 Controlled Christmas Lights

  Lboucher wanted a snazzy Christmas light show this year so he pulled out his Parallax BS2 microcontroller and got to work. "I have always wanted to copy those crazy uTube videos of christmas light to music. Well i finally looked into it and found that everyone is generally using Light O Rama. Which is cool, but cost dam near 800 bucks for 32 channels. So i thought i would

Automatic Turn Signal Control

  This Automatic Turn Signal Control project by Dick Streefland could help add some cool new functionality to your car. Code is provided. "The behavior of the software can be controlled by a push button and a LED on the dashboard. You can change the blink count, blink interval, maximum activation pulse width, and the behavior of the LED. These settings are stored in EEPROM. To inspect one of the

Coil Gun

  Power Labs has put together a nice powerful Coil Gun. The principle behind most of these coil guns are the same however it looks like Sam has some nice tools that make the job a bit easier. "The gun has been completed, and it works! I finalized the design so that I could show it on my presentation on electromagnetic accelerators -which mainly focused on the Rail Gun- for

Ball-E Color Following Robot - Cornell University ECE 5760 Advanced Microcontrollers Project

  The Cornell University ECE 5760 Advanced Microcontrollers Project fall 2008 results are up. This Ball-E colored ball following robot is just one of many cool projects. Cathy Chen and Matt Meister did a great job of documenting the project for us to enjoy! This year Bruce Land gave the students a Altera/Terasic DE2 FPGA development board to let their creative juices flow. "Our project’s goal was to create an