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Wow, here’s some really cool laser pointer control. Sorta like your PDA device except you can point it anywhere with your laser pointer.
After I linked his basic laser pointer webcam interface the other day, [mnt] sent me this excellent demo
Here’s a cool little instructable on how to etch solder paste stencils at home. I have been researching for home-made PCBs lately as Garrett’s always talking about it. Anyway, we can refer to this when we make some custom boards.
“Digg user bonlebon’s got some nice diggs!”
via bonlebon via
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Here’s the video for the Bike POV earlier.
Nice “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year”, guys! (or girls)
Nice Nintendo Wii hack for people who need this hack…bookmark it!
The Nintendo Wii ships with a composite video cable that is capable of 480i resolution. Currently first party component cables, which allow for 480p resolution, are available through retailers and directly from Nintendo. However, when attaching the component cables, one loses the ability to output composite video. Why is thi
Nicely done RGB Bike POV! POV stands for Persistence of Vision, check out wikipedia definition if you don’t know it yet.
The whole thing is based on a pic16f628A, with some SMD mosfets to power the led’s. Those are very bright RGB led’s with SMD resistors for smaller PCB size and lower weight. That’s important too when keeping in mind
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I picked up couple broken monitors at the garbage can nearby where I work last week. (Yes, I am such a el cheapo, I have to go to the dumpster for some hackable parts. Regardless, I also found some PCI serial cards which I needed badly for FREE!) Well, I am planning on some visualizing device…and this VGA expropriator might help me…
Play the video to check out the cool effects of the
Cool looking power display…
The Wattson displays how much power you’re using in your house so you can actively see how much electricity your going through… I think if I had one of these I’d be more likely to walk around the house and turn off more stuff to always keep the number as low as possible, looks handy…
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Wow, this is a cool HOWTO we didn’t know before… This could be useful for laptop batteries…nice!
Nicad batteries often die in such a way that they won’t take a charge and have zero voltage. This usually means they’re shorted out by crystal dendrite growth.
Here’s a method of bringing them back to life by
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwFn7zB4fz0
It’s getting near Christmas time and I needed to prepare some Christmas gifts for my parents. Since my Dad does not get much time on the golf course these days, I figured I could make a training aid he could use at home to keep his swing on path.
Since I didn’t want to spend 50 bucks on
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZzkUdAS8cQ
We were thinking that we could make another last minute DIY for that uses a Ryobi FAN from Home Depot, high output LEDs, and an embedded computer. Although we have been spending way too much time making DIYs and not working, we are glad we did make a cool Christmas LED Wreath we are proud of. The video by the way did not capture the real effect because of the frame rate of the camera but
