If you haven’t seen a TIX clock before you can see (or purchase) one from Think Geek. They are very cool looking, and in my opinion. I first saw them being used by Chris Pirillo. What is better than buying a TIX clock would be to make your own, that is exactly what Guido Seevens from Gweeds.net did. He documented the DIY TIX Clock build here and provided all of
Chris from Pyro Electro sent in his latest creation, it’s a IR prox sensing musical device. As usual he has provided enough information to make your own. ” IR sensors used to detect the distance between the sensor and an object are a perfect fit for a DIY Theremin because they are low cost and they are reliable enough to get the project working. The idea here is that instead
Lots of us have smart phones in our pocket, why not use the power of the phone to control things around us. Troy Collinsworth uses his to control his garage door, start his car and turn on the sprinkler system. This is all done using bluetooth. This Daisy Works board and this Android software if the heart of what makes the system tick. The outputs of the board are used
Arthur Benemann who is an Electrical Engineering student sent in his picChess game which uses a DSPIC33F128MC804 Microcontroller. The PIC based game can communicate using a speaker to talk and a monitor to show the game board and chess pieces. If Chess wasn’t enough Arthur also added Conway’s game of life and a music player to the system “For the hardware the main challenge is to select a processor with power to
If you want to see Jesus Walking on water I think the closest you will get is watching the video that Rodger Cleye made showing his robotic platform that he made for operating in the water. You probably remember his Skeleton Riding a Skateboard that we featured here. I am hoping that Rodger sends in some pictures of the rig so we can see how he built it. “I have
Eventually one of your projects will cause you to move from DIY PCB manufacturing to getting a PCB Fab company to make them for you. There are lots of them to choose from, Digital DIY has gone through a ton of PCB Fabrication House Options and provided some information to allow a good A B comparison. “Even in small quantity, having circuit boards made can be inexpensive, if you know
SeamusTheTinker built this Time Lapse System using a Parallax microcontroller, VEX Robotic Design System pieces and a bunch of other various bits and pieces. In the end the rig is capable of taking some great growing plant pictures. “The camera is a Casio QV8000-SX, using the built-in time-lapse mode. The motor controller is based on a Parallax BASIC Stamp 2 OEM module that I had left over from a previous
