August 5, 2008
ow to DIY Arduino HACK - ArduGame - DIY Arduino Game Console!
Here’s a really cool Arduino hack where the user has hacked up a game console based on Arduino and peripherals like accelerometer. The ArduGame packs all of the power into a small handheld unit that allows you to make your own simple games. The OLE display is responsible for much of the power since it can store many of the graphical images ... More
July 30, 2008
How to Turn your iPhone into a Dyno with Dynolicious!
Here’s a cool new iPhone app called Dynolicious that will turn your iPhone into a real Dyno using iPhone’s already-capable accelerometer. This is definitely going to beat buying a stand-along Dyno or making an accelerometer yourself. Dynolicious is the first automotive performance meter available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Dynolici ... More
July 14, 2008
Improved Motion Sensing for Wii Controller with Wii MotionPlus!
Nintendo just announced their new improved motion sensing module called Wii MotionPlus that you can plug into an existing Wii controller. Nintendo’s upcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote controller again redefines game control, by more quickly and accurately reflecting motions in a 3-D space. The Wi ... More
June 25, 2008
Verizon’s LG Dare Touchscreen Available Tomorrow for $200
Here’s a cool LG phone that will beb available tomorrow. iPhone Killer? Maybe… Hardware: Dimensions: 103.9 x 55.6 x 13.8 mm (that’s 0.54-inches thick for us yanks) 3-inch, 240 x 400 touchscreen LCD with “Vibe-Touch” tactile feedback Rev A EV-DO 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash, autofocus and exposure control 1 ... More
June 5, 2008
Beer Smellin’ Robot
Beer smellin’ robot finds you BEER! Can I order one please? The iXs developed bot is now fully grown and fettered to Fujitsu and Kawasaki on a Japanese press tour. The bot features an impressive bag of tricks including an accelerometer (”ooo, it’s bumpy”), light sensor (”don’t forget to turn on the lightsR ... More
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 29, 2008
Design Concept - Tennis Racket Trainer!
Here’s an interesting concept, it’s a tennis trainer that coaches you by acting as a virtual coach. For one, as an experience embedded controller developer, you’d need some type of 3D accelerometer and lots of fun math calculations for the computer to figure out exactly how the tennis player is swinging then the virtual coach wou ... More
April 29, 2008
Shape-Shifting Robot Re-Assembles Itself and Dis-Assembles…
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Lol….this robot is funny… basically it re-assembles then dis-assembles. Very pointless robot that could be applied for a robot with an important task. Composed of 15 modules arranged in groups of five, each of CKbot’s clusters have a module wi ... 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 11, 2008
Quake 3 on the iPhone or iPod Touch!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, I am gonna have to try this on my iPod Touch! Quake 3 Arena has yet to be matched (some will argue I know) by any first person shooter game on the market as far as speed, multiplayer gameplay, and overall FPS experience. Rocket arena was my forté. Now, Qua ... More
October 7, 2007
Wii DIY HACK - Using your Wiimote to measure your car’s acceleration!
Although this is an awesome Wii hack using GlovePie and the Wiimote, you could probably do this a lot easier using a simple 3-axis accelerometer and a microcontroller. I got this idea after seeing some physics class use the wiimote in some kinda pendulum experiment. Why not use the wiimote’s built in 3-axis accelerometers to measue g-forces, ... More
May 21, 2007
Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage - Electric Skateboard
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this cool electric skateboard these guys made. Thanks Frank for letting me get on it. I was about to take off with it to my house… It’s an electric skateboard that goes forwards and backwards by simply putting your weight towards where ... More
February 25, 2007
Bluetooth Accelerometer
Check out this PIC based bluetooth accelerometer that you can use for your future wireless accelerometer applications. This is a small wireless sensor platform providing a bluetooth SPP link to three axes of accelerometer data. The accelerometers are sampled by a PIC microcontroller (onboard ADC) at roughly 100Hz (rate can be changed via firmware ... More
December 4, 2006
DIY HACK - G-Meter using Atmel AVR for acceleration, braking, and horserpower
Remember our G-Meter in 1 Minute? You could probably refer to this for getting acceleration, braking, and horsepower. accelerometer, atmel, Auto, Auto, avr, chevy, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, g-meter, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, Hack, Microcontroller, Microcontroller, mustang, sports-car, Travel, Travel, Zedomax ... More
November 22, 2006
Sony PS3 6 Axis Joystick Controller
View This Video on You Tube Here’s a cool video of Sony’s new PS3 6 Axis Remote-Controller, it seems like they have taken all parts of our DIYs including bluetooth controller, the accelerometer, and a joystick to make it a complete remote-control system. We now have a good idea, maybe we will just make our own 6 axis Joystick bluetooth ... More
