Thanks to Nerd Kits for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing one of their $79.99 USB Nerd Kits to the winner. This contest will run for one week (May 23- 28, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer in the
This guitar looks quite good with some blue LEDs installed. I think a great next mod for this guitar would be to make the LEDs flash in time with the music. "Stuff used: – Acrylic Guitar – Blue LEDs – A Rocker Switch salvaged from a broken laptop power supply – A bunch of Icicle sticks which were saved up (I knew they might come in handy) – Soldering
Jeremy Mayer has some interesting artistic capabilities. Most artists work in oils or water colors, Jeremy works in old typewriters! Via: Oddee
Andy from Trademark Laser let us know about this Piezo Drum Kit a while ago. Alex sent in some pictures of his finished product. It looks great but that’s how it goes when you have a laser cutting business. 🙂
Bob Davis has cranked up the power on his can crusher. By adding a defibrillator capacitor his Can Crusher is now supercharged! He has also provided the schematic of the design on his site. "I purchased a defibrillator capacitor on EBay and have upgraded the old 2.4 KV can crusher to a 5 KV can crusher. I added a voltage doubler on the output of the Microwave Oven Transformer
Ryan from Ohararp has put together a modular Wireless LED Scrolling Display that looks very flexible and uses that cool ioBridge that we are starting to see used more and more. "A uPic is used to talk to the led drivers (8xMax7219’s) through the serial port (in this case an XBEE)."
As homes get bigger it’s harder to balance the heating system. You can close and open vents all you want but all it takes is a few closed doors to throw off the entire system. Jason Clark from Cyborgworkshop has overcome this issue by designing an Arduino controller that monitors sensors in all areas of his house. Servo motors then control dampers which put air where it’s needed. Have
