Devin writes “These pages are a nice guide to making high voltage items (toys?) out of trash! These two pages show how to make a Tesla Coil out of trash, and how to hook up TV flyback ransformers for all sorts of fun HV stuff (arcs, jacob’s ladders, capacitor-bank charging, coin-shrinking, etc.)” Link & Link.
Frank writes “Here are some projects, plans, rural skills, renewable energy, home CNC machine building, home/hobby metal casting, dry humor, tons of pictures…Since 1999 theworkshop.ca has evolved from a general interest hobby site to become an international Small Foundry resource…2005 marks the entry into the “Art-Casting” and “Industrial Proto-Typing” markets…Industrial Proto-Typing is a service that caters to the manufacturing sector through to inventors that want a single part or series of parts cast for a “Proof-of-Concept” application.” Link.
Greg writes “These guys took a girl’s prom glove, and attached an accelerometer to one finger. They also attached 4 buttons to the middle finger. They use an Atmel Mega 32 to interprate the signals from the sensors on the glove and to create the RS232 serial output for the computer.” Link. See previous “mouse glove”.
Geo’s Super-slim, cool-lookin, EMI-shielding wallet – “Ever get tired of carrying around a huge honkin’ leather wallet? Want to impress your hipster friends with your wacky style? Worried about your credit cards getting erased by all those stray electromagnetic fields you’ve been hearing about? Then this is the wallet for you.” Link.
Here’s Rube Goldberg device made using Garry’s Mod for Half-life 2. Garry’s mod allows you to “Create a comic strip, make a crazy contraption, set up a huge monster fight, build a fort online with your friends, the possibilities are endless.” In this example, a lot of objects with physics that can be made to react like a Goldberg contraption. [via] Link to video.
Matthew writes “Previously, E-DSP visited the possibility of using your sound card as a signal/function generator. I was curious about the results, but did not have a Windows machine close by to test it. After some searching, I found a Linux alternative and was able to test the limitations of my Sound Blaster Live!” Link.
Hans Schepker’s mathematically correct glass and sculpture site is an excellent read – “All my stained glass work is based on geometry. Yes, it is math I am talking about! The following lines are a short explanation of the shapes I work with and a bit of theory around them.” Thanks