Laserlight has made a new Dual Laser Light Saber, you may remember the single version from last year. “The smooth light growing retracting effect when used seperately. Cool Works as either two separate sabers or one dual blade saber.” Thanks Steve.
Kosta Grammatis is a CSU Undergraduate who has been working on an air balloon project for the past two years. The balloon has just had its first flight and all was well. Presentation Video Launch information “I’ve been working on a research project for the last two years, “The Balloon Project” it’s a system I designed from the ground up to take air samples autonomously, collect data, and do it
The Retractable Alarm Clock is one of the Cornell University Microcontroller Design Final Projects. Colleen Carey and Vincent Zou have made a product that has a concept that could be marketable. I am not much of a morning person and the snooze button is always handy, this could work for people like me. 🙂 “The Retractable Alarm Clock is the next generation alarm clock that combines both active alarm feature
Not the easiest DIY project but this homemade Homemade Oscilloscope looks and works great. “Homemade Cathode Ray Tube with cold cathode. Vacuum is somewhere between 100 – 200 microns, easily attainable with amateur equipment. Vertical deflection is done using an electrostatic plate. This CRT is used as an oscilloscope to display a signal from a sound synthesizer. “
The Anti-Tracker is a PIC 16F628 based GPS project that you may be interested in building. The author provides source code upon request. “The AntiTracker is a new concept in GPS tracking systems. The idea behind the AntiTracker is that many units in the field do not need to have their positions reported back. These field units are however interested in where the units being tracked are. The AntiTracker BASIC
Here is a crafty hack that converts a normal building intercom into a personal wireless keyless entry system. Video after the jump. “Now don’t tell the co-op board, but I crafted a plan to ditch my Mul-T-Lock key for good. My apartment building, of course, uses an intercom system to remotely unlock the front door for guests, deliveries, etc. This keychain upgrade gets me in the front door… keylessly. The
Have a look at the Keepon Interaction Robot , Hideki Kozima developed it and Marek Michalowski gave it intelligence. It looks simple at first until you realize that it has two color cameras, a microphone and an amazing range of motion. Video after the jump. “Keepon has a yellow snowman-like body. The upper part (the “head”) has two eyes, each of which is a color CCD camera with a wide-angle
