Microchip (the makers of the popular PIC Microcontroller) are in the middle of a great contest called the PIC32 Design Challenge. There are many phases to this contest, currently the hardware phase is being conducted. After this phase the current 128 participants will be down to only 32. This contest is bringing out some great projects from some creative minds! This Bathroom Utilities Management System by Brent Morse is
This creative hack allows you to modify a teddy bear to read all of your tweets coming from Twitter. "Guru Alison and I performed some, uh, innovative 2.0 surgery on an old childhood friend. The result: a real-time Twittering, talking, live-streaming social media phenomenon. I worked with my team at the Drexel Music and Entertainment Technology Lab to develop Teddy’s text-to-speech software. MATERIALS: * Animatronic Teddy Bear * USB
This Simulated LED Flame Flicker project is just the thing that is needed for all of those pumpkins that will be put out this year. It can run sufficiently long on a battery and will not burn anyone. The code is not up yet but should be posted soon. "The code accepts an arbitrary number of LED outputs, with a minimum brightness for the general glow. A peak brightness
Laser Harps look like lots of fun even though I probably wouldn’t be able to play a tune on one. I can just imagine putting some Easter eggs in there though! If you get the correct pre-programmed sequence it will play something amazing automatically. There will be more information about this build shortly over at cibomahto.com.
Puget Systems built a few versions of a Computer cooled using a Mineral Oil filled Fish Tank. They have run it in various forms for about a year and a half so far! I would have thought that this system would have lasted long enough to marvel at the feat but die a short time later. This project proves my prediction wrong. I don’t think I would recommend it
The Prop Master has created some spooky See Saw Halloween Skeletons that can be setup to greet your guests as they arrive on Halloween. 🙂 It uses a windshield wiper motor to create motion and a simple adjustable wall wart power supply is used to adjust the prop speed. "The wiper motor is attached to a 2×4 with hot glue and tie wraps. The 2×4 is attached to the
Here is another cool iPhone projects that controls a RC car. Is the iPhone the new Swiss Army knife of portable electronics? "Controlling is very easy with the iPhone 3G. It has five buttons, four of them you can use for traditional „driving“ and when you press the last one, it unlocks the accelerometer control in the same way as in many driving games available on AppStore. Realization of
