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JIT Watch – Just in Time Watch

Posted on February 16, 2007 by max
JIT Watch

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6dSQLoQOLM

Wow, check out this concept watch that will let you keep track of where you are in comparison with where you have to be using the latest technology.

In the rapidly changing world of consumer electronics and portable devices, a trend is occurring amongst artists and designers to embed social problems and concerns into these objects to shift their intended focus and intent. Taking this credo to an extreme with his work into technologically enhanced objects and accessories is German artist/designer Mar

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Battery Powered Rope Ascender!

Posted on February 15, 2007 by max
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Wow, check out this battery powered rope Ascender!

Nathan Ball, hangs 50 feet in mid-air from his battery-powered rope ascender, a device that can raise more than 250 pounds at 10 feet per second. Ball is the 2007 winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, an award that recognizes students at MIT who have demonstrated remarkable inventiveness.

The Rope Ascender created by Atlas Devices is a powerful new tool that enables “reverse rappelling&#

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DIY – CO2 System!

Posted on February 10, 2007 by max
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Here’s a cool DIY on making your own CO2 system.

Carbon is the fundamental element that all life on this planet is based. Plants are no exception. Since plants have no way of getting to their food sources, nutrients have to be obtained from their surrounding environment. Plants use many macro and micronutrients, carbon dioxide (CO2) being one of the primary macronutrients. In an aquarium the limiting factors are most likely to be (in order): light, CO2, micronutrients (trace elements), and macro

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Egg Drop Experiments

Posted on February 9, 2007 by max
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This is kinda cool experiment on eggs and dropping them from the roof. I wonder if they’d try some memory foam…

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Snowplow Robot with GPS and two cameras!

Posted on February 8, 2007 by max
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HOly cow, this is a tight looking snowplow, but it also runs by itself with on-board GPS and 2 cameras! This is a slight change from the Roomba…

Dare anyone to build this guy.  (looks like he’s got a face too 😛 )

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Bike Plow for your winter holidays

Posted on February 6, 2007 by max
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Check out this awesome bike plow to plow your snow while exercising!

After years of not having much success riding my road bike in the snow, I discovered the seat could be raised high enough on my daughter’s mountain bike for me to ride comfortably. Although the bike handled well in new snow, compacted, icy snow with hundreds of footprints and a few other bike tracks was a bit treacherous. I soon realized the amount of time it would take me to shov

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Frozen Waves

Posted on February 6, 2007 by max

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Frozen waves? wow….

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A humorous video on Perpetual Motion

Posted on February 5, 2007 by max

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Here’s a cool video on perpetual motion using a cat as an example.

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Potato Powered MP3 Player!

Posted on February 1, 2007 by max

Okay, we’ve been getting some strange sources of power lately including the lemon power and candle power, here’s potato powered MP3 Player!

TighT!

We are working on our touchscreen MP3 player by the way, we are trying to locate a CSS CCS PIC compiler this week so hopefully by next week we will have it made.

This appliance is, of course, closely related to the

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DIY HACK – How to make a GPS Logger using PIC and a $20 GPS receiver

Posted on January 29, 2007 by max
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Here’s a tight little project that can cost very little to make if you need to make your own GPS data logging system for your next hiking or outdoor adventure!

This project focused on creating a simple serial data logger for the Delorme Tripmate (also known as the GPSTripmate). The Tripmate is an older GPS receiver that can be purchased on eBay for < $20. I happen to hav

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