What do you do when you have animals to look after but don’t have enough hours in the day to care for all their needs? Well we have seen uses of technology to feed your animals automatically. Food isn’t the only need, of course they need water also. But have no fear technology can help us there also. After all that food and water has been consumed they have some
Anna Ceguerra has been making some interesting applications with the 4D Systems OLED displays. This is her version of Tetris for the 4D Systems platform. You still have the rest of today to enter the contest that 4D is sponsoring, if you win, your project could be the next one featured on Hacked Gadgets. 🙂 The contest is one of the harder ones that we have had, this means your
Joe Carruth has harnessed the power of the sun by creating a huge Solar Mirror Array in Colorado. This array boils 12 gallons of water to generate steam and the steam powers a twin piston steam engine. The steam engine is attached to a 12KW Generator with a straight shaft. Considering that this solar array could fit in my back yard the amount of energy it produces is very impressive.
The team over at Gadget Gangster have been real busy. The Super GrooveAxe a new product that is now available on their site. “Percussion in your pocket. Feel the tiny boom! With your Super GrooveAxe, the beats will always be with you, so you’ll never feel lonely again. The Super GrooveAxe is a simple to build project that uses a Picaxe microcontroller to make looping drum patterns. It includes a
If you were a electronic hobbyist 55 years ago this is the type of projects you would be building. The visual point to point diagram is great, it reminds me of an old version of Fritzing. If the circuit wasn’t enough, the English grammar is also interesting, on the first page AM is spelled ayem. The woman in the front page picture look happy even though there is only one
Anna Ceguerra saw the prize for the contest this week and sent in some of the work she has been doing with the 4D Systems components. “This demo shows how to communicate between a uOLED display and the uCAM. The 4DGL code attached includes the following functionality: A text-based menu system on the uOLED, displaying the various initialisation parameters for the uCAM The uOLED initalising communication with the uCAM The
Here is a good video about communicating amongst multiple microcontrollers. In this case they are NerdKits that are distributing sign data so that a huge Multi-Panel LED Array can be built. Even if you aren’t interested in the project have a look at it for the SPI info. “In this project, we put a new twist on our old idea, and modified the LED Array into a giant multi panel
