All bow your heads in reverence to the Ponginator. This bad kid is a performance robot, mounted to the end of a 3 story tall crane. He makes all kinds of noises, flashes all kinds of lights, and shoots ping pong balls at 170 miles an hour. This thing looks like it would be so […]
FOLDING HEXAPOD BODIESFOLDING HEXAPOD BODIES
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At Berkeley, they’re coming up with new methods to make their itty bitty hexapods. These are generally small flatpacked bodies cut from cardboard. The end goal is to not only make them smaller as well as quicker to build, however to minimize the friction in the joints. You can download the data on their site […]
AI produces color PALETTES; has incredibly great tasteAI produces color PALETTES; has incredibly great taste
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color palettes are essential to any type of kind of visual or graphic design. A designer has to determine a handful of essential colours to make a style work, making phone calls on what’s eye catching or what sets the mood appropriately. one of the issues is that it relies heavily on subjective judgement, rather […]
FRAMING UP YOUR electronics projectsFRAMING UP YOUR electronics projects
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[Victor] may be onto something when it pertains to project enclosures. He’s using a picture frame to house his electronics projects. This is made especially easy by the variety of sizes you can find at Ikea. possibly the most crucial dimension is to have enough frame thickness to sandwich your components between the glass and […]
MAKING A VIOLIN mold WITH A 3D PRINTERMAKING A VIOLIN mold WITH A 3D PRINTER
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Some people see 3D printers as expensive and slow devices for replicating bracelets, whistles, and Yoda heads. until the world transitions to a plastic octopus-based economy, those of us with 3D printers will have to find something useful for these tools. Bayesian Empiritheurgy out of Halifax, Nova Scotia wanted to do something useful with their 3D […]
VISCERALLY PLEASING ELECTROMECHANICAL DOORBELLVISCERALLY PLEASING ELECTROMECHANICAL DOORBELL
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Sure, we could just slap the steam-punk label on this doorbell hack, but we think that cheapens it. The rig uses a combination of mercury switch and creative mechanics to form a doorbell. and we think it goes beyond aesthetics to a statement of who you are starting with the front door of your house. […]
STIRLING ENGINE FROM ALUMINUM CANSSTIRLING ENGINE FROM ALUMINUM CANS
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The Stirling engine seems like an odd-ball design when you’ve only encountered gas and Diesel engines. even though the Stirling engine is piston based it doesn’t use valves. It has a sealed working fluid and no exhaust gas. Stirling engines aren’t very common, but are being produced commercially as cryocoolers and for use in solar […]
DESTROYING AN ARDUINO’S EEPROMDESTROYING AN ARDUINO’S EEPROM
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We’ve seen projects test the lifespan of an EEPROM before, but these projects have only checked discrete EEPROM chips. [John] at tronixstuff had a different idea and set out to test the internal EEPROM of an ATmega328. [John]’s build is just an Arduino and LCD shield that writes the number 170 to memory on one […]
LAPTOP KEYBOARD CONVERSIONLAPTOP KEYBOARD CONVERSION
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[Leechar] liked the compactness of notebook keyboards as well as desired one for his desktop. A buddy provided a 486 notebook keyboard as well as Leechar discovered an old AT keyboard controller in a junk box. instead of taking the time to decode the key matrix as well as make sure that every key was […]
ELECTRONIC STETHOSCOPEELECTRONIC STETHOSCOPE
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[Vik] sent in this easy little project. He purchased a $3 spy ear, a easy 3 transistor amplifier, and attached a stethoscope end. little modification was necessary, primarily just scraping a bit much more space in the microphone tube. The end result is a very cheap electronic stethascope that can be hooked to a computer […]