LED Temperature thermometer project
Update: It appears that the site we linked to removed the source / where this project came from, so we’ve removed the diagram and text until we find out what’s going on…
Month: June 2006
Hot wire foam cutter
GotMarko writes in with a hot wire foam cutter made from some posts on MAKE/Instructables – “A hot wire foam cutter and the jig I used to cut 4-inch styrofoam balls in half…Instead of the CD case project box, I just used a three wide plastic outlet box from HD to hold the dimmer and […]
USB on Rails
MAKE pal Todbot posted up his slides from Sketching with Hardware, it’s good stuff, he writes – “My talk was “USB on Rails”. The USB HID standard enables the sending and receiving of arbitrary data-structures (“objects”) between a host PC and a device. All without any additional device drivers, since the HID driver is built […]
Easy Button with recordable audio
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Coloradocrim writes – “I did a simple circuit-bend on an easy button about 3 months ago. The most common question I get is “Can you change what the easy button says when you press it?” I haven’t seen anyone else online who has done this, so here are some pics. […]
headLamp: Computer controlled LED lamp
Zach writes – “headLamp is about 300 leds soldered into a metal colander (like you use for straining noodles), which happens to be the perfect size and shape for a lamp. The leds form 7 seperate segments of red, green, and blue. These segments are wired to a circuit and controlled by the parallel port. […]
Printable Robots
Great article by Gregory Daigle on the advances in inkjet technology that might lead to robotic origami – “From the diminutive ASIMO from Honda to the colossus in the animated film Iron Giant, kids around the world know that robots are cool yet complex machines. Advances in robotics, fuel plans from NASA that read like […]
Fading Eyes LED project
Design News has its latest “Gadget freak” how to up, build a fading LED for spooky projects – “Partial to things that go bump in the night, Bill built a circuit that slowly illuminates and fades a pair of red LEDs. It consists of two op amps, one producing a slow rising and falling voltage […]