I saw a cool bike on Zedomax today. It’s a Beer Bike by City Cycle that lets you have a few drinks while touting around the city, cool idea until someone gets real drunk and falls into the path of a oncoming truck. I think a larger version about the size of a real tour bus would be a great business in tourist locations. I was wondering how many other
There are some projects that just take your breath away, this 555 Decimal Adding Machine by Alan Yates is definitely one of those. Via: EMSL “The quiescent device pulls 450 mA from its 9 volt supply. Yep, 4 watts! You can feel the warmth coming from the back of it. I could not find ICM7555s in quantity, so was forced to use LM555CNs, making it a rather power hungry device.
There are lots of electronic projects that can be made at home but I would have never thought I would see a Scanning Electron Microscope that was made at home! The results are able to be watched on an oscilloscope. The comments of the article are great also and worth a read. You can see the system in operation in the video at 9:53. Via: Make “The lock washer is
Now that spring has arrived you might be looking for something new to build that can be used outside. Why not make something that can be used to protect your property in a non-lethal way? We have see lots of sentry guns over the years but quite a few of them has closed source code. This Sentry Gun Project has code that has been released which is sure to help
Remember all the people warning you never to look directly at the sun because you will go blind. Well believe me when I say do not look into the barrel of this gun because it will make you blind. This DIY Pulse Laser Gun was built by Patrick Priebe who you might remember from the Iron Man Repulsor Light Laser Glove Project. This is what you get when you convert
Our friend Max from Zedomax checked out the first color e-reader over at the Hanvon CES 2011 booth. The 9.7 inch e-reader has a resolution of 1024 X 600. Just like the Amazon Kindle, this Hanvon e-reader doesn’t use any power when it’s displaying the page, it only consumes power to generate a new page. So if you have read 500 pages over a 2 day period only the generation
Would you like to know what it feels like to have bionic legs? I think we would need to talk with Evan Ackerman to hear about what it was like since I don’t think most of us will get to test drive these legs any time soon. Evan got a chance to use the Cyberdyne Hybrid Control System (HAL) at the Consumer Electronic Show 2011. Via: Adafruit
