If you are a procrastinator and have some electronics in your junk box why not make one of these LED hearts for that special someone. ThermalRunaway did a great job on the circuit board but I think I would have made mine from a heart shaped box of chocolates. The circuit is very simple and I like the way the components are symmetrical and look quite nice when laid out
Johnny Lee from Procrastineering (who we interviewed about 3 years ago) made a great DIY Video Chat Robot project. He is using a Roomba as the movable robotic platform and a netbook as the video conferencing system. Skype is used to do the actual telepresence. We did an article about the Anybot Telepresence Robot recently which is the same idea in a more polished package but essentially provides the same
We recently featured the DIY Electronic Watering System which used technology take care of your plant for you but what if you still want to be involved but just need some reminders to keep your plants alive? Have a look at the Talking Plant Project that jeff-o made called The Plant Whisperer. We have all heard that talking to your plants is good for them but I wonder if having
LEGO NTX projects can be lots of fun but what if you need to have one part of your project talk to another and wires are not practical? There are lots of wireless technologies around but they would be hard to interface to your LEGO NXT system. That is until now, dexter industries has developed a NXTBee sensor which allows you to extend your LEGO projects from around the corner
When Johnathan Hottell from filear.com was developing some programming for his PLC testing how things work was often not very easy. The PLC IO Simulator allows Johnathan to simply adjust value on the simulator to see what happens on the PLC logic. Turning a potentiometer is a bit simpler than draining a 100 gallon tank to see what happens in the PLC. The wiring is actually quite nice based on
I love plants but they tend to die when in my care because I forget to water them. I know that the plant needs a shot of water every now and then but I still forget, there has been some helpful electronic plant monitoring systems made, even systems that let your plants tweet to you. But this DIY Electronic Watering System from Deddies Lab is more up my alley since
DIY electronics is all about revisions. Make something work the first time and make it look nice the second time around. We featured this Analog LED Clock last year, cosmetically it looked fine and worked great. Wellyb00t has been hard at work making a new version which you can see on his Youtube channel. Instructions and details on the clock can be found here. Via: HG Comments
