uC Hobby has a demonstration of a simple way to hook up a small electronic project directly to your PC power supply. WARNING if you do something wrong you can do permanent damage to your computer. Another option is if you have an old computer power supply laying around you could convert it into a lab power supply. “You can hack some parts you probably have lying around into a
Now that Halloween is over what is there to do with the Halloween pumpkins? Why not make a time lapse video of them drying up. Once you perfect your time lapse skills you will be ready for next year when you can also record the making of the Halloween pumpkin.
You can either make this toxic barrel pop-up or purchase it from the designer. “Industrial air cylinder will be driven by pneumatic valve plumbed to 25psi compressed air. Attachment to PVC cap to hold lid in place. PVC goes through center of styrofoam head with caps on both ends to hold head in place. I detailed the mask with glow-in-the-dark paints to highlight it under blacklight illumination. Final assembly with
This project shows the creation of a large array of UV LEDs. They are used to expose a presensititised blank circuit board. Another common method is to use UV tubes. Alfredo has translated it to English as well as he could (English is not his first language). This is great since for some reason the good old Google translator could not do much with it. Thanks Alfredo! "Why if we
This technology allows everyday items such as a chalkboard to become interactive. “Sensitive Object attempts particularly to make day to day objects interactive by proposing man-machine interfaces (MMI) that are particularly innovative, which use the sense of touch and adapt to all forms of electric or electronic commands (switches, pushbuttons, keyboard keys, control panels…)”
Will this be our future movie and music collection interface? I sure hope so! The people at Natural Interaction are sure creating some interesting software. “A natural interaction interface to organize and navigate contents such as images, movies and audio. Make sure to have the speakers turned on! It uses only the left mouse button, mouse motion, arrow keys, save (s) and rewind (r) keys. Useful for astonishing presentations.
Cory, Zach and Summer created the iTunes Jukebox , it represents a fun way to allow party guests to play their favorite tunes. “Take one of the “cartridges” (an electronically enhanced jewel case), and insert it in an empty slot in the iTunes Jukebox (an electronically enhanced CD tower). The tower is connected to the iTunes software on your computer, and as soon as you insert a jewel case,
