Igor Lovric sent in this PIC 16F877 based G-Force Monitor project which was inspired by a project over at Mikro Elektronika. The microcontroller reads in the values from the accelerometer and sends them via a serial connection to the computer. The computer is running a custom program that Igor wrote in Delphi 7. One thing that Igor notes is that the power supply that it is running on makes a
JustDIY shows us how he reverse engineered a Pentax DSLR IR remote to make a DIY Pentax DSLR IR Interval Timer. By allowing the microcontroller to send the take picture command this project is now able to command the camera to take time lapse movies like the one after the jump. With a digital storage scope it is simple to capture this type of short waveform and duplicate it in
Gio from DIY Audio Projects just completed a new audio kit build. This one is for the Boozhound Laboratories partial JFET phono preamp kit. If you are into the classic audio then this kit might be for you. I unfortunately don’t even have a record player anymore and have completely converted to the dark side of music represented by ones and zeros… If you are looking for some other interesting
Our friend Ian Lesnet from Dangerous Prototypes is sure Rockin the Open Source Hardware Project Space. As many of you know he is attempting to build a new open source project every month (well at least every month on average). Most of you probably didn’t know that Ian and I worked over at the AOL property DIY Life for a short time (Ian longer than me). Hot Hardware did a
After I upgraded my Android phone I was pleased to see the new Google Voice Search options. It actually works quite well. The guys over at Breakfast had some great fun making The Verbalizer which allows physical world control over the Google Voice Search. Via: Make “Out of the box, the Verbalizer connects wirelessly to your computer via Bluetooth and when triggered, opens google.com in a new tab and activates
Electro Bob decided to upgrade his Ikea halogen spot lights into using LEDs so that he could run them all night. Bob removed the guts of the spotlight housing and installed his new high power LEDs which were mounted to two L brackets for heat sinking. I would have never thought of using orange LED like Bob did but he says that they are easier on the eyes at night.
Last week we showed you a Bluetooth Cell Phone Garage Door Opener. This Smartphone WiFi Garage Door Opener by Tuxgraphics accomplishes the same thing but does it in a totally different way. This project uses a smart phone to interact to an ethernet board which is running a web server, using the soft buttons from the page displayed you are then able to control outputs on the board. When
