July 9, 2008
DIY - How to Make a Force Sensitive Resistor for about $20!
Here’s a cool DIY showing you how to make a force sensitive resistor for about $6-$20. It’s a great way to build something that needs to sense “force” of something such as your hand strength, leg strength, etc…etc… In other words, you could build a soccer game machine with it. via instructables Circuits, Con ... More
June 16, 2008
Solar Tree Collects energy during the Day and Poops it back at Night!
Here’s an interesting solar tree that collects energy during the day and emits pulses of lights at night. Collects and stores solar energy during the day, emits controlled pulses of light at night. Pulse frequency: 0.2Hz via make - ladyada Consumer, Cool, Design, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, LED, lights, Microcontrol ... More
June 6, 2008
DIY AVR tri-color LED controller
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s an interesting AVR tri-color LED controller. The new project based in AVR microcontrollers Its an “Habitat Mirror Hack” with RGB Leds (superflux). Its the Peggy Muppets Mirror. I replace the regular bulbs that it has, with superflux RGB ... More
June 5, 2008
DIY - How to Make a Wireless Accelerometer Mouse Pointer!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This is a great project for your school final project. Human Interfacing Device is key area in modern electronics era. Gesture recognition can be well introduced in modern day computers to play 3-D games. Virtual Reality is not far away from our doorsteps. Simp ... More
May 7, 2008
DIY HACK - How to make your own Automated “James Bond style” Party Room!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode One of our long-time readers and a winner of a free Green Laser, Brian Gaut from Schwippy, has made a new website explaining how to make the Emergency Party Button and transform your livingroom into an automated “Jame Bond style” party room. As seen ... More
April 27, 2008
DIY - How to build your own G-Force Meter!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Remember I did a G-Force Meter couple years ago? Here’s another cool DIY G-Force meter. The only difference it that it uses 7-segment display and a PIC18F series microcontroller. After seeing so many applications using acceleromters making a simple proje ... More
April 2, 2008
DIY - Robotic Yellow Drum Machine plays Drums!
Wow, this has to be one of the cooler DIY robots I’ve seen in a long time. Basically, it plays drums. Not real drums, but it plays your household stuff like vases as drums. Beautifully done, we give it an A+ for the creators. (Btw, we are not selling the blog for $1000, our readers say it’s too cheap! How much should we sell it fo ... More
January 26, 2008
Atmel AVR HACK - Temperature Controller using Microcontroller AVR
Check out the Atmel AVR temperature controller hack, although I made a better one last year that can be controlled via ethernet, the case looks awesome! Wine doesn’t like subzero temperatures, and during wintertime, my “winecellar” got pretty cold. There was an electric heating element, but the thermostat was broken, so it was ... More
November 24, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO make some sounds with Arduino! Sound Part 3 - Playing a Melody
Check out the Part 3 of “HOWTO make sounds with Ardunio” and learn to play melody. Bit-Banging Sound To bit-bang sound we toggle an output pin at the desired frequency. To play a musical note, we need to use specific frequencies and play the sound for a specific amount of time. Generating the desired frequency big-bang style means figu ... More
November 23, 2007
DIY HACK - HOW TO Control an Arduino remotely with your browser!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This is kinda cool way to control an LCD hooked up to Ardunino with browsers including your mobile phone. In conclusion, this code may be pretty ragged, but the concept is what is important and it should be enough to get you started. You obviously can’t do any ... More
November 14, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO make some sounds with Arduino!
So, you want to make some sounds with the Arduino you just bought last Friday? Check out uCHobby as they show you how to do some basic stuff with sound and Arduino including how to make “Hello World” sound using a PC speaker. This is the second in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The first article co ... More
November 7, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO make your own 360 panoramic photo-bot
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out this instructable on HOWTO make your own 360 degrees panoramic photo-bot! this is my 360 panoramic photo robot, the idea is shooting in 360 degrees in the smaller time as possible without errors, take the panoramic in a hard conditions and fun!. t ... More
November 5, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO convert an Arduino into AVR chip programming hardware for use with AVRDude
Into AVR chip programming? Check out how you can convert an Arduino into an AVR chip programming hardware for use with AVRDude! By the way, AVR is microcontrollers from Atmel. Check out AVRFreaks for good AVR info. (Thanks David for the tip! ) I ported the Atmel AVR910 In System Programmer protocol to the Arduino. Now I can write programs to my ... More
October 28, 2007
DIY balloon sent up 30km
a href=”http://vimeo.com/359554/l:embed_359554″>Launch and Retrieval from natrium42 on Vimeo.Check out this DIY Balloon that made it 30km! High altitude ballooning is an emerging hobby, since price of GPS and communications equipment has gotten quite low. It is an excellent hobby for people fascinated by space flight and telerobotic ... More
October 11, 2007
Wii DIY HACK - Wiimote Lego Tank Surveillance Robot
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Cool nice little wiimote Robot… This robot is composed of Legos and uses a handyboard as the control hardware. It has 4 wheel drive each controlled by a lego motor, and a pan tilt mount for directing light and the video camera. The Wii Remote talks to a Ma ... More
October 8, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO make a Arduino Beer Thermostat
This project deserves an A++ for making something related with beer! As I am gulping a Budweiser 40 down my throat, I find this email in my inbox about HOWTO make a Arduino Beer Thermostat! Cool… Keep up the great work David and thanks for the tip! I belong to a diverse group of amateurs who have a fascination for brewing our own beer. I ... More
October 4, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO build An Internet Controlled Security Robot with GPS!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Looks like Shelto has been updating his internet robot project from couple months ago. Check out this cool internet controlled security robots made with some CUBLOC PLCs an ... More
October 3, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO sense Squeeze!
Ohhh….. here’s a really cool DIY HACK that can sense your squeeze. (This might be good for making an adult-related game…then again…) I’m researching squeeze sensing as a mode of tactile interface. Here I will cover the process of developing a squeezeable sensor and the firmware/software concerns associated with interpre ... More