A follow up from our how-to use a multimeter video… Here’s a resister calc dashboard widget for Mac OS X – “Resistulator – A resistor calculator. It calculates the value of a resistor from the sequence of colored bands painted on the resistor. It also displays the corresponding color sequence when a resistor value is […]
Mike writes – “MiniMechadon was designed/constructed from Nov ’02 to Dec ’03. Currently, the mechanics and electrical hardware are complete. I have written some test code to exercise the servos and demonstrate the flexibility of the robot and for basic walking. The main goal of the project is to experiment with learning algorithms that will […]
Here’s a neat weather station from some students @ the Oregon Institute of Technology – “The Remote Weather Station (RWS) is a computerized weather monitoring system using MINI-MAX/51-C micro-controller board from BiPOM Electronics and various sensors. RWS consists of two separate modules ( display module and weather module ) that are wirelessly linked together. RWS […]
Artist Thomas Raschke makes incredible “real” wire frames of objects. Here’s an entire room and radio… [via] – Link.
In the 50’s and 60’s John T. Frye, W9EGV / Popular Electronics published a series of fiction stories called “The Carl and Jerry stories” – In each story the pair acquired new skills, got their ham radio licenses and used their knowledge of electronics to get out of a jam or solve a mystery – […]
A vintage Kirby vacuum hunting trophy – Link & more fun at the Holistic forge works…
Now *this* is a Mac collection, check out the homemade Mac bar! – Link.
