This is a cool mod that adds a bullet counter to an Airsoft rifle. “The new circuit was built with the hopes that since the CMOS IC has much lower voltage requirement, it can still operate when the rifle is firing, but I was wrong. 🙁 Though my second alternative is to use external batteries, and power consumption is an important factor in this case. As far as power goes,
Adding lights, windows and paint to a computer case is cool but a turbocharger cooling system is over the top crazy. “We thought a fast computer should have hot rod flames, working headlights, and a custom license plate. As for the cooling system, an LED case fan just wasn’t going to be original enough. Instead, our case fan is a turbocharger commonly found on late 1990’s Mitsubishi Eclipses and Eagle
This PIC microcontroller based wind gauge interfaces with USB. It is still a work in progress but looks to be almost complete. “There are various methods of measuring the speed of a wind. With this equipment, a hemispherical window cup is rotated and the method of measuring wind velocity at that number of rotations is used. The measured number of rotations is sent to a personal computer with a USB
Mount this camera to the bottom of a Frisbee and let the recording begin. I can just imagine the cool video this could capture when tossed into a good strong wind. “Ever thought of riding a Frisbee on flight? Well, I never did(maybe I was never too stoned!) but Adam Sutcliffe, a graduate from the Royal College of Art apparently did. As it was kind of insane, he came up
If you are into telescopes and DIY projects this project is for you. Check out the full plans for the Trackball Telescope! “Jerry Oltion calls it a trackball telescope, and he’s distributing plans for its design free of charge. Parts needed: a rubber ball, a bucket, some plastic pipe, a Bic pen shell and assorted hardware. The trackball is amazingly easy to set up. Just put the mount on a
Laptop technology has come a long way in the past few years. Is the indestructible laptop around the corner? Probably not, but this APC model is about as close as we can come today.
This is a simple way to add some functionality to Winamp. “Nowadays, winamp have full support to keyboard shortcuts. But some time, when winamp didn’t have this feature, I was thinking in some way to make a easy way to change music by simply pressing one button, it would make things faster and would help me to change music during games. So I decided to make a external control painel,
