Category Archives: Computer

Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe

Posted on November 4, 2007 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_sor6nu8S8

Check out this cool RGB LED Tick-Tack-Toe!

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DIY balloon sent up 30km

Posted on October 28, 2007 by max

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 telerobotics and has many learning aspect

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DIY HACK – HOWTO make a fiber optic rose!

Posted on October 23, 2007 by max

video://www.metacafe.com/watch/877958/make_an_led_fiber_optic_rose_great_birthday_or_valentines/

Wow, here’s a great DIY video on making your own custom fiber optic rose!

Using a few LEDs and really cheap fiber optics, I made this dead sexy, illuminated fiber optic rose.

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Robot Video – Face Tracking Hexapod Robot

Posted on October 23, 2007 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oXuSXCKJeY

Check out this tight ass hexapod robot from MicroMagic systems! Very cute.

The hexapod was my fourth generation robot, and took around 2 weeks to build, the hexapod locomotion engine has been developed on and off over a couple of years. The face recognition software was based on OpenCV libraries, integration of face recognition into the i.C. hexapod face tracking took around 1 week, but with several weeks of fine tuning and enhancements.

A bit of technical backgrou

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DIY HACK – HOWTO build an LED Hat!

Posted on October 19, 2007 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW8eNRhpuEs

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoVUtz01Uww

Check out this awesome LED Hat you can make for Halloween! There’s some construction notes that you can refer to build one yourself.

I think this was originally because I was planning to go to the

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CircuitScout – Your circuit diagram search engine

Posted on October 19, 2007 by max

Cool, check out CircuitScout next time you are trying to find that circuit for your next project. I looked up “Alarm System” and got some pretty decent results. (Much better than google for circuits) Thanks Jerry for the tip! 🙂

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DIY – Steam Punk Computer That gives you beer!

Posted on October 14, 2007 by max

Check this Steam Punk Computer that serves you fresh beer from Russia!

Looks like Russians can turn an ordinary home computer into almost everything. For example, looks like this one can fill your mug with a fresh beer. Though actually nobody can tell how this weird thing works.

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Wii DIY HACK – Wiimote Lego Tank Surveillance Robot

Posted on October 11, 2007 by max
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video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCQyqeU0kw

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 MacBook Pro over bluetooth to modified DarwiinRemote software, and the computer in turn communicates with the robot over a serial port. This robot was designed for and used in a small scale demonstration of Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) as an assignment in Intro to Robotics at

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DIY HACK – How to make your own Cool LED Lamp Art

Posted on October 9, 2007 by max

Check out this really really simple DIY on how to make your own Cool LED Lamp Art using LEDs, acrylic glass, and some creativity.

LED of LED The lights are approximately twenty times the scale of an actual LED bulb. Not only does the product show the beauty of the LED structure, but it also creates a special visual effect on the ceiling, 12 LED bulbs are refracted through the Acrylic glass lens to generate this pattern. Materials: Alumin

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DIY HACK – HOWTO make a Arduino Beer Thermostat

Posted on October 8, 2007 by max

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. In addition to the satisfaction of brew

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