ArtFall allows you to draw on a whiteboard, then have small geometric shapes interact with your drawing like a barrier. think of a pachinko machine where you have to draw the pegs in. Not only can you draw barriers, but you can change the direction of gravity with either an iphone or a Wiimote. The…
Month: September 2022
MINI video camera FLASH COIL LAUNCHER
This coil launcher is based on a disposable video camera flash system. It uses the charging system from one video camera plus the the flash capacitors from four cameras. The coil is 200 turns in 10 layers wrapped around a glass tube with a 3mm inside diameter. The projectile is a 2.5mm diameter nail. It…
FIXING tools WITH 3D PRINTERS
Over at the Manchester Hackerspace, [Bob] has been busy getting a 30-year-old bandsaw up and running. The saw worked great, but it was missing a fence, making straight cuts tough to say the least. The solution, of course, was to build a new fence, and [Bob] made a decision to profit from his hackerspace’s workshop…
RASPBERRY PI helps WITH 2.4GHZ home AUTOMATION
wanting to extend the capabilities of the radio frequency devices in his home [Kalle Löfgren] turned a Raspberry Pi into an RF control hub. We’ve seen some of his home automation work in the past. In his media room he built a universal remote base station which used the same RF board as in this project. The main difference…
BUILDING A BRUSHLESS motor CONTROLLER
Brushless motors as well as the method in which they are managed can be a bit of an enigma to those just starting out in pastime electronics. [Andrew] from spingarage believed it would be practical to put together a quick tutorial showing exactly how he developed a simple brushless motor controller in about a day’s…
HACKIT: ARE YOU RUNNING OSX ON YOUR NETBOOK?
AppleDifferent chose to run some benchmarks on their MSI Wind hackintosh to see how it stacked up to real Apple hardware. It comes in under the MacBook Air in many cases and they conclude that it performs about as well as a four year old G4. Being so small and inexpensive, you can’t really expect…
GAMEBOY linked HARDWARE SEQUENCER
thanks to produce digital music for pointing me to the remarkable work of Gijs Geikes. This is his most current sequencer creation. It is created to get its clock signal from bit noise Dj running on a Gameboy. The sequencer controls plugin modules that are connected to a parallel port. Here’s a excellent sample of…
QUICK as well as filthy SHOCK gloves
[JLaservideo] has produced some great high-voltage gloves as well as uploaded a video on YouTube showing you exactly how to get your mitts on a pair of your own. utilizing some extremely basic parts, he handles to make some respectable sparks. At the heart of this job is one of those new-fangled arc lighters which…
HOME developed COMPOSITE BIKE
[Blind tree frog] sent in two excellent links. The very first is a full compose up that resulted in the bike pictured above. It was hand developed by laying carbon fiber over aluminum tubes as well as might be produced $600. The second is a more traditional triangular frame bike that was built by complying…