Remember the game Breakout? These days with game controls like the Kinect who wants to use the old style joysticks anymore? ECE 5760 students Meng-Ling (Maxwell) Liu, Thu-Thao Nguyen and Yang Yang designed a game that they call HAND BREAKING BRICKS. They are using an FPGA to display the game on the monitor while it is also monitoring a Terasic CCD module which allows the game to “see” the location
If you have taken some CS courses you have no doubt seen Conway’s Game of Life, if you are a kit builder you have probably seen some nice Conway’s Game of Life kits also. Where the basic kit version has 16 elements Cornell University student Cooper Bills wanted to design a system that had 307,200 elements. What this boils down to is an incredible looking visual effect that requires a
This DIY Animated LED Christmas Display is sure to get you in the spirit of Christmas. The sign is built from 134 different colored LEDs, to make this happen some 74HC595 and 74HC14 chips are used. The sign is built to permanently display one message. I am thinking a great upgrade to this project would be to build it with LED matrix boards so it could be used to display
Check out this Useless Machine built with Laser Cut Plywood Hinge. You have probably seen a useless machine before, it is basically a machine that uses a small arm to turn itself off as soon as someone has turned it on. It is a really fun concept. Martin Raynsford has built one in a cool custom case. His case doesn’t use a hinge as you would expect, instead he is
This vintage video game player has a few extras on it. The extra knobs buttons and switches allow you to play this game console in a new way. With the original circuit board connected to in certain audio circuit location you are able to alter it in a pleasing way, watch the video below to see an example of this in action. Thanks to John who passed along this link
It was a great day when we could start our cold car remotely. A bit of trivia, the first remote car starter was produced by Canadian company here in Winnipeg called Kraus. Times have changed! In this hack Brandon Fiquett uses Siri in his Apple iPhone 4S to command his car to start using voice commands. Lots of the heavy lifting has been done by Viper in this case
This Rave Rover is a cool build and it is very well documented so you can see all the details of the system and how it was done. They are using a ton of high power RGB LED modules that can be controlled via SPI. The control of the LEDs is being done with an Arduino. Thanks to a very sturdy frame, some pneumatics and a few wheel chair motors
