We are all aware of global warming,but what can we do. I think everyone agrees that we need to make drastic changes to avoid an environmental imbalance. One of these drastic changes was demonstrated to me by Stuart Dunbar from SCI-FUN Fusion at the University of Edinburgh. I met Stuart at the All Energy Conference in Aberdeen Scotland. Their idea is to capture the CO2 gas that would normally be
This Talking Robot Mouth looks a bit creepy but works amazingly well. This robotic mouth is making sounds the same way we do. The mouth is made of various silicone materials blended together and the nose has the same function ours does when it comes to the creation of human vocals. The most impressive thing is that the robot learns as it talks, there is a microphone which allows the
Our friend Ian Lesnet from Dangerous Prototypes is sure Rockin the Open Source Hardware Project Space. As many of you know he is attempting to build a new open source project every month (well at least every month on average). Most of you probably didn’t know that Ian and I worked over at the AOL property DIY Life for a short time (Ian longer than me). Hot Hardware did a
Steven Rodriguez sent in some information about a project they are raising money for using Kickstarter. Have a read about the Wave Manual and give them some support to make this a reality. As with all Kickstarters there is a deadline to get funded and their funding deadline is 10 days from now. “WAVE MANUAL will not simply be a theoretical exercise but a documentation of our complete immersion into
I first heard about Field Day on Ham Nation which is a new show on the TWIT network. Field Day is a day where ham radio operators run emergency preparedness exercises. If there is a large event that causes major communication channels to be disrupted many of us will rely on the transmissions of these ham radio operators to spread information. Watch the video below to see how the guys
Adam Jackman and Pouria Pezeshkian designed a cool Digitally Controlled Electric Guitar for their ECE 4760 Final Project. My daughter is learning guitar and I can see that the electric guitar can have its sound modified in interesting ways just by twiddling the knobs on the guitar. Only issue is it’s hard to revert back and forth between different sounds without lots of trial and error. Adam and Pouria have
Making your own PCBs boards is a time consuming task. If I need to make 1 or 2 simple boards I don’t mind spending some time and building a few but if you will ever need more than that you better look at getting them made by a professional PCB manufacturer. This means that drawing a picture of your copper layer in a graphics program and printing it on a
