[Maurice] let us know that his latest photography tool for hackers, the Camera Axe 3. 0, is now available. The original allowed you to trigger a high-speed flash and camera from a multitude of sensors, including light and sound.
Published: November 19th, 2009
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools allow you to draw out a symbolic representation of a circuit using a schematic capture interface, (sometimes) simulate it with a circuit simulator, and then finally lay out the circuit on a printed circuit board (PCB).
Published: November 19th, 2009
Bruce Heran writes:
This is a project that I made to take care of an ever increasing need to prototype vacuum tube (valve) circuits. As you can see from the photos, it really is a test board.
Published: November 19th, 2009
A simple game is always much more fun when it is spiced up with some cool electronics. The wooden tilt maze game has been around for a long time. This Marble Maze that is Remote Controlled using an Accelerometer kicks up the original game by allowing the player to interact with the game using a controller that moves the real game according to user movements.
Published: November 19th, 2009
While Outerspace may not have an extremely useful function, being an art installation, we really enjoyed reading through the build information. Basically, Outerspace is supposed to appear to be curious, exploring its surroundings and reacting to your contact.
Published: November 18th, 2009
starlino. com writes:
In a previous article I have analized 3 accelerometer side by side comparing their noise level. Today I am going to test a 3 axis accelerometer from ST LIS331AL.
Published: November 18th, 2009
jimthree writes:
The aim is to build a device which responds to earthquakes being reported in near-real time via the USGS RSS feeds. The device responds by illustrating the magnitude of the reported earthquake via two fairly chunky vibration motors of the kind used in video game controllers.
Published: November 18th, 2009
If youre marooned on a desert island, you want to have a Professor who can build useful items out of coconuts. [LostMachine] is one of those guys, and hes currently building a land-loving pirate ship.
Published: November 18th, 2009
Jonathan Thomson submitted this useful article about converting a low cost cell phone USB cable into and easy and cheap way to connect to an Arduino microcontroller setup.
Published: November 18th, 2009
[Robotkid249] details how to build a wireless power transmission system. This is similar to the commercial applications we have seen in a TED talk as well is in a Sony prototype.
Published: November 18th, 2009