Electronic Hacks

Bauxite - Add Automatic Skating Sound Effects
Cool Gadgets

  If you like skating have a look at this cool Automatic Skating Sound Effects project called Bauxite over at Skate Hack Via: Make “Bauxite is an open source portable skateboard box embedded with piezoelectric sensors, customized hardware and software and portable loudspeakers. As the skateboarders ride on the box, the piezoelectric sensors convert physical vibrations into triggers and generate a selection of pre-recorded sound-samples amplified through loudspeakers. Skateboarders interact

Arduino tracks Near Space Launch
Complex Hacks

     Ugifer send this box of electronics 124,000 feet in the air. The view sure looks great from that height! To track the balloon he used the Space Near Us tracking system, a custom PCB was created to keep the circuit as robust and compact as possible.  “Radio – in the UK there are only a few narrow frequencies you can use from the air and even then you

Printable Self Assembling Lamp
Cool Gadgets

     This Printable Self Assembling Lamp is an interesting concept. It starts out as a flat sheet and folds up into a box with an overhead light. The light turns on using a touch sensitive area. This is what Ikea needs to implement. 🙂 “The thing that comes out of the printer (it’s a rather special sort of printer) is a flat multi-layer sandwich of shape-memory polymers (they take

Submersible Thruster
DIY Hacks

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  If you are looking to design some underwater propulsion Dane from Transistor Man has completed a well documented Submersible Thruster build to get some pointers from. “The goal here is to design a submersible motor assembly that is able to accomplish the following: Able to operate, submersed, up to 1 meter underwater while not transfering more than 10ml of coolant into the surrounding water per hour (not leaky) Capable of

Bruce in a Box Augmented Reality Project - Cornell University ECE 5760
Cool Gadgets

  Julie Wang developed the Bruce in a Box Augmented Reality Project for her ECE 5760 final project. This looks like a fun project, to see where the name comes from watch the video at 3:00. “My system makes use of a variety of digital signal processing and computer vision techniques, resulting in a robust and reliable system. The hardware I utilized was the DE2-115 board by Altera, a Video

Wall Mounted Computer Chess Board Project
DIY Hacks

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    If you like playing chess this Wall Mounted Computer Chess Board Project might be something that would be a good project to add to the list. It has a vintage chess game hacked into this hand made wall hung chess board. Thanks to Artless Dodger for sending this in. “Parts Needed Working Fidelity Chess challenger 8 or 9 Power adapter 8v Coin cell battry 3v MDF 6mm board

eBay Photoswitch Teardown
Electronic Hacks

  I spotted this photoswitch on eBay and had to take a look at the guts (search photoswitch if the link doesn’t work since eBay links go stale after a short time). I now see that the same unit is sold in multiple variations which are 24V and 220V. Not sure I would feel safe with 220 on this thing though. I am curious if the 10 ohm resistor is