This creative hack turns an old mouse into a camera trigger. You can buy one from the manufacturer but that isn’t much fun. “Dave Schlier had a spare oldie (mouse that is) that he recycled into a shutter release cable. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that clicking a mouse is the most affective way to take a shot. But if that what it takes for you computer
If you are looking for the perfect housing for your next amp project look no further than your kitchen cupboard. 🙂 This Baking Pan Amp is the cool result. “I purchased the heaviest cast aluminum (3 mm thick), baking pan I could get my hands on. Add to it a massive chopping board made from laminated pieces of heavy timber with handles, and now we are cooking! The finished amp
Here is a collection of The Incredible Machine creations. Which one is your favorite? “The Incredible Machine (aka TIM) is a series of computer games that were originally designed and coded by Kevin Ryan and produced by Jeff Tunnell, the now-defunct Jeff Tunnell Productions, and published by Dynamix; the 1993 through 1995 versions had the same development team, but the later 2000–2001 titles had different designers. All versions were
Check out this cool PIC Microcontroller Touch Keypad by Mondo Technology. I love the simplicity of button press detection. There are lots of industrial buttons that do this exact thing but they are very costly. “This board layout was created using the SOIC version of a PIC16F627A without drawing the usual schematic first. Most of the part values are etched on the Layout. The SIP resistor packs I used are
Our friend David from Volunteer Lab Rat has built a tesla coil from a 15,000 Volt neon transformer. Make sure you check out his videos on the project page. “An AC power supply, here a neon sign transformer creates 15kV. The transformer will charge the capacitors. As they charge up, the voltage across the spark gap will rise. Eventually the potential across the spark gap will be large enough so
Pyrofer has added a solar panel to his tiny PIC based game system that uses a cell phone LCD screen for the display. Now the game can be played for hours. 🙂 “I picked up a fairly large one for $40 hk and connected it up to my pic+3310lcd project. Bam, up it comes. Im going to put in a bit of power regulation and a cap to smooth things
A cheap camera and a plastic bag of die is all that is needed to make this DIY Multi-touch display. “Erling Ellingsen made his own homebrew multi-touch interface from a plastic bag, blue dye, and an iSight camera. It’s called the dyeSight.” Via: Boing Boing
