I thought this was a plazma screen that was displaying an image of a fire. Wrong! The Vertigo – Flueless Fire is a real gas fireplace. “When up and running, the Vertigo gas fire uses advanced technology to literally breathe life into your room. Utilizing a patented catalytic system, the fire has the ability to burn off the odorous and stale air in the room and efficiently return warm and
We have all seen the electric shock game . This hack takes an old Reductronic exercise machine and makes it into a shock game. “Reductronic is a old system to exercise the muscles of the human body by the use of electricity , the system was hacked to interfere the nerve system and establish sinestesia with the auditive system. The electrical current circulates through the body at the rhythm
I didn’t think that the lasers in DVD burners were this powerful. If you have one that died (hopefully not because of laser failure) you might want to make your own high power laser. Be very careful when playing with something like this. I would suggest using laser goggles when operating. “The laser pictured above has a peak output measured at 225 mW (average output 200 mW). It’s a
You might remember the article where uC Hobby demonstrated how to power projects using a computer power supply. One of the issues was that there was a possibility of causing permanent damage if something accidentally got shorted out. Dave has fixed that designing a simple current limiting circuit. With the circuit installed you can now short out the power tap and know that worst case is a 200mA draw. Have
The effect of the Invisibility Sphere is interesting, looks like there are still some glitches that have to be worked out. I would love to see this using flat panel monitors with very small seams between them. “Artist attempts to build an invisible sphere. 215 monitors are placed directly opposite 215 cameras, allowing the viewer to peer directly through a eight hundred pound mass of steel, glass and electronics.” Via:
The Robo Dump would rent out like crazy at the gag shops. Press play below to hear the sound effects! Low bandwidth: [audio:robodump.mp3] High bandwidth: [audio:robodump2.mp3] “RoboDump is a robot. Sort of. And it poops. Sort of. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds. The left channel speaker points up into the room (for the voice effects) and the right channel
Check out this very cool lighthouse project “This design is for an octagon lamp for simulating a lighthouse 6 second round trip flash. The lighthouse stands about 6 feet tall, an outline of the lamp head is should on the cardboard of one of the pix. I am really liking the Atmel Tiny controllers, very cool and a true RISC design (no funky divide by 4 microchip T state stuff,
