Huge Tesla Coils are really cool but when you add a bit of art and danger into the mix that just makes it all that much better. Have a look at the video of the show that Arc Attack performed at the Maker Faire. If you got to see this live I am very jealous! Keep your eye on the Arc Attack show page to see them when they are
Rolo’s electronics projects has an interesting technique for Desoldering an SMD IC with a Candle. This is not the correct way to remove this type of chip, use some hot air instead. He didn’t have any of the proper tools at hand and needed to get his Siteplayer up and running. A trip to the local computer shop scored him some over priced antique computer cards which had the surface
We have seen a Ball Balancing Robot before but this one takes the cake! It was developed by Masaaki Kumagai and Takaya Ochiai from the Robot Development Engineering Laboratory and Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems at the Tohoku Gakuin University in Japan. Via: Make and IEEE “The robot they built rides on a rubber-coated bowling ball, which is driven by three omnidirectional wheels. The robot can not only
In this GSR-Monkey (Skin Conductance Measurement System) Martin Sona uses the principle of galvanic skin response to plot some data onto a grid. Two people can be connected and monitored at the same time. I can imagine using this system as a two way lie detector, how often do you get to turn the tables when performing a lie detector test? Via: Hacked Gadgets Comments “The hardware (besides the PC
Take one Apple iPad processor, some gentle abrasive action and look what you can see. The folks over at iFixit partnered with Chipworks to get a closer look inside the iPad to see what makes it tick. Turns out the iPad is basically a huge version of the iPhone 2G. The Apple A4 processor is in a POP package, this stands for package-on-package. The first package is for the microprocessor and
What to do with a nice camera that is damaged beyond repair? The obvious answer is take it apart to see what makes it tick. This Sony Alpha A200 was completely non-repairable but the pictures of its dissection are absolutely wonderful. Via: English Russia
A Turing Machine is something that you just think about, it isn’t a physical machine. Well now it is! Mike Davey has spent some time to create one. Mike built his Turing Machine to look the part however inside you will fine a Parallax microcontroller as the heart. Via: Make and HackADay “A Turing machine is a theoretical device that manipulates symbols contained on a strip of tape. Despite its
