  If your life revolves around your computer a nice way to keep working in dim light is a must. If you can get your hands on a laser cutter this Mini Articulating LED Computer Lamp would be a great project to try out. The finished lamp can simply plug into your computer USB port, be careful though since USB ports can be damaged easily if you abuse them.
What do you do when you have an old treadmill and the controller dies? Most people would haul it to the dump, some might contact the manufacturer and see if a replacement controller is available, having it repaired in your home is probably not an option since the diagnostic call can repair service call and repair parts would probably cost more than a new unit. Parallax forum member knikula
If you are looking to make some noise with your next project, have a look at the Micro Granny, it’s a Pocket Sized Arduino based Granular Sampler. Via: Make “Features: basic parameters of sound: pitch, crush, volume, start, cut, repeat micro sampling parameters of sound: shift speed, loop length, shift direction (forward,backward,random1,random2) lfo parameters of sound: rate, amount, destination (pitch, crush) instant loop feature micro SD card slot  (plays
If you have a laser machine and want to make something cool, check out this stool that was cut by hisashi_kun from some 2.5mm MDF. Even if you don’t use it as a stool it looks like a nice conversation piece to have in the corner of the living room. Everything in the middle slots together and the outer pieces snap together and has cuts that allow the wood
When developing a new circuit design you will find that you often drop in solutions from previous projects since there’s no reason to re-invent the wheel every time. HackEDA takes this idea and pushes it out to the web, it’s in beta right now so it might not be able to handle all of your project ideas but by clicking a few buttons you can build the basic framework
 This Digital Reversi Board Project by Hanting Lu and Kai Wang from Cornell University look like fun. It is just like the real reversi game and ensures that players can’t make invalid moves. An Atmel Mega 1284 is used to read in the press locations from the touch sensor and is also interfaced to the bi-color LEDs using a TI 3 to 8 line decoder chip and a
Check out this Leap Motion device that Stephane Bersot made into a cool MIDI controller to play drums, guitar pitch and the piano EQ. Thanks for the tip James.
