Circuit bending can be lots of fun. This Circuit Bent Boot project takes it one step further by placing the circuit in a fun object. The Circuit Bent Boot sure looks like tons more fun than an Altoids tin! Via: Hacked Gadgets Comments “The project consists of the following materials: a rubber rain boot a small toy keyboard one potentiometer with a resistance of 100K ohms (available at Radioshack) three
Have a look at the My 2uF blog for some interesting developments of an 8 RGB LED Ring project. There is lots of blog entries covering everything from board design to a working demo of project. He is using an interesting RGB surface mount LED, they seem to be very susceptible to heat which sounds like they would be hard to work with. “The board contains an ATmega168 chip, a
Phil Torrone has put together a guide of open source hardware that was produced over the past year. This is sure to be a growing category in the next few years. "Each year we do a guide to all open source hardware and this year there are over 125 unique projects/kits in 19 categories, up from about 60 in 2008, more than doubling the projects out there! – it’s
If your project needs to store lots of data you need a datalogger, this Open Source Hardware SD Datalogger allows you to store tons of data onto an SD card. Via: Elektronika.ba "This project provides a general purpose library which implements read and write support for MMC, SD and SDHC memory cards. It includes low-level MMC, SD and SDHC read/write routines partition table support a simple FAT16/FAT32 read/write implementation"
The Cornell University ECE 5760 Advanced Microcontroller course is done! As usual there are lots of interesting creations that have full documentation for us to have a look at. There are 10 projects posted (2 of them still need the project details to be added). This time there is a great variety of projects, everything from realtime face tracking to this Velocity Sensitive Digital Piano by Chris McNally and
This is a project that I have been working on, it is just completed and ready to go! The video may be a bit dry since it is just going over the features and how to use the controller. If you want to see it interfaced to a rotary phone have a look at around 7:40 minutes into the video. The Button Code is a system that allows a single
You might remember the vintage looking 9 volt battery box. This Electromagnetic Field Detector is another old new device by Hacked Gadgets Forum member JingleJoe. Have a look at the forum thread for lots more pictures and some more videos. If you want to purchase it you are in luck, it was just posted on eBay! "The wood started new, but I gave it my patented aging process and
