If you have one of those Talking Douglas Fir trees here is a cool talking skull idea. “I took him out to the garage and disconnected his eye and mouth motors from the main post. I then used 2 – 2″ screws and attached the jaw to the motor of the douglas talking fir(DTS now) I used hot glue and sealed the screws to the mouth to insure no
Pete Redmond from Mechatrons has created a robot that can solve the Rubik’s Cube. Many robots have done this in the past but this robot does it in a human fashion! “This is the new version of RuBot by Pete Redmond from Dublin, Ireland. It’s very different to the prototype but it has to be the coolest looking robot solver ever. There are cameras in the eyes of the
If you have a tree in your front yard and some time to kill before Halloween this Hangman project that would be worth some consideration. Merlin used a Singing Santa board to control the unit however a small microcontroller or a 555 timer and a handful of components should do the trick. “Wires were soldered to the relay to power the wiper motor that will run the hangman. The
This display looks very nice, if you are interested in building one (and can find the Russian VFD) the device pinout and code for the controller is available on JKX@Home. Project part 1. Project part 2. “After my nixie clock, I decided to build a new one based on a old VFD vacuum tube. In fact, the brother of a friend (which live in Ukrainia) give me a bag
Scary Terry has come up with a Flaming LED Skull project that would be good to greet all your guests on Halloween. Terry also links to this site as a good flaming skull resource. “I came up with my version of the Flaming Bucky. Instead of mounting the fan inside the head, I use a 4″ fan mounted near the ground and PVC pipe to direct the air into the
Counting winding turns is made easy with this project that uses a hall effect device. “Magnets on a spinning thing near a hall effect latching switch chip make pulses that a counter counts to count the turns the spinning thing spun. Operation: A latching hall effect switch turns ON when it sees one pole of a magnet. Pull the magnet away and it stays ON. When it sees the other
Volunteer Lab Rat has an interesting project allowing you to build a 3D Scanner out of some common parts. “The following blueprint shows an exploded view of the vital components of the rotating table. I use an R/C servo to rotate the table. It would be easier to construct a table using a steppermotor, but I had an R/C servo on the shelf. The servo cannot rotate a full 360
