If you are looking to get on the POV bandwagon, this is a simple way to do it. “In this first article on microcontrollers, Erik Zoltan tells you what they are and how they work to your advantage. He presents a few simple examples illustrating how microcontrollers can be used, and gives you a complete implementation of a kinetic glowstick that uses persistence of vision to display images with a
If you have some of the holiday fireworks left over I can’t think of a better way to get rid of them that build a Home Made Rocket Launcher. More pictures can be found here. “Building the first stage rocket launcher was incredibly simple 1) 2″ pipe over 5′ in length to avoid getting blowback in you face 2) Rocket engines, ignitors, lauch controller or any device that puts
Similar to the cool new Ambilight technology by Philips. The MoMoLight which stands for Movie Mood Light displays colors on the wall behind the screen in relation to what is being displayed on the screen. “MoMoLight stands for Movie Mood Light. It”s my PC version of the Philips Ambilight system. Three sets of lights are placed behind a computer screen ( left, top and right) and display the average
If you ever wanted to play around with a earthquake detector, this system look quite simple and well documented. “Let me admit at the outset that due to a scandalous absence of earthquakes in Northern Ireland this project has never been tested on any meaningful earth-movement whatsoever. However, the setup is sensitive enough to detect passing cars, bad-tempered neighbours slamming doors 10 metres away and pile drivers at a distance
If the Robosapien wasn’t cool enough stock, you can kick it up a notch by performing this music mod by Marcus. “In an attempt to get my V2 to open up a can of whoop ass on V2 Media, I decided to start with an important aspect, Music. Adding the ability to play music and sound through V2 allows you to plug in an Mp3 player, Ipod, Pocket Pc or
This is a simple way to add some functionality to Winamp. “Nowadays, winamp have full support to keyboard shortcuts. But some time, when winamp didn’t have this feature, I was thinking in some way to make a easy way to change music by simply pressing one button, it would make things faster and would help me to change music during games. So I decided to make a external control painel,
Just what I need in my house, a man made tornado. Based on these plans this work of art was created. ” I built a tornado machine using instructions from www.weather-photography.com and doing some of my own modifications. It works really well! I took a video of it at different angles, closeups, and even inside the storm just to show you how cool this thing is! it was hard work,
