Dr. Beeby from the University of Southampton has developed a vibration powered generator which is 10 times more powerful that similar devices. “Dr Steve Beeby and his team at the University’s School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) have developed a kinetic energy generator which generates electrical energy from the vibrations and movements present within its environment. ‘This is the most successful generator of its kind and generates energy much
Dan’s Workshop has an example of a Grease Powered Toy Jeep. This project uses some interesting modules that take heat and output electricity. “I used two of the Marlow SP2348 modules in series for the heat to electricity converter. I used white heatsink grease to make a good thermally conductive bond between the two heatsinks. Actually, the bottom heatsink (the hot side) was just a flat plate of aluminum, about
Imagitronics has created a new interactive version of Pong. He calls it Bongo Pong, rolling right and left on a platform controls your on-screen pong paddle. Video after the jump. “I started work right away on the project. I quickly found out that Indo boards do not come cheap, with prices starting around $80, so I decided to make my own. For $6 I was able to get a short
Our friend Nick Chernyy from uBlog has got his hands on an Apple iPhone and worked his magic to get a shot of the CPU wafer image. “The chip contains both the ARM CPU and the RAM, three dies to be exact. The CPU had what looked to be a model number and the RAM chips had what looked to be part of a model number on the cut-away part
If you ever wanted to do some laser engraving, this project might be of some interest to you. The circuit is basically a variable voltage regulator that is powering a high power laser. I would highly recommend laser goggles when experimenting with devices like this. “This laser will immediately BURN AND CUT anything you put in front of it faster than a hot knife through soft butter. And, a laser
Diodes can be used for temperature sensing. Nick Chernyy used this principle to make a Diode based Fan Controller for his Shuttle PC. “Figuring that I should just go build a more substantial fan controller myself, I promptly went to the lab to look for a thermistor. Unable to find one, I settled for the next best thing: a diode. After building the circuit, I tested the output with a
Imagitronics from Japan shared his latest creation with us in the Hacked Gadgets forum. It’s a USB Controlled Traffic Light Status Indicator which he built to show the number of running applications at a glance. “I retrofitted this generic “Blinking Traffic Light†with a USB module and wrote a simple Mac application to monitor my computer usage and reflect the results in by changing the stoplight. This project was born
