Little Fimo Robot
Croque Choux made this Fimo robot with her son with a few free minutes. What a cute quick project. Link.
Year: 2008
Guitar pedal looks like Ed Wood film
The “Sci-Fi Distortion Pedal Project” will turn the wanna-be rocker in you into a wanna-be filmmaker like Ed Wood. Just be careful you don’t use tinfoil pans instead of metal, otherwise this pedal might not last quite as long. Sci-Fi Distortion Pedal – Link
Net connected alarm clock
Second Prize winner in the Microchip 16-bit Embedded Control Design Contest went to DJ Delorie, with his highly connected alarm – Unlike old-school mechanical alarm clocks that you have to set manually, this Internet-connected alarm clock provides three primary features: automatic time setting on power-up, streaming MP3 music, and remote management. The easy-to-use, PIC24FJ64-based clock […]
HOW TO – Make Vegan Onion Dip
Proof positive that vegans love eating junk-type foods too: Your Vegan Mom’s Onion Dip Recipe. Of course, instead of using gross powdered soup mix and sour cream, this recipe includes actual onions. It still goes great with greasy potato chips! Link.
Digital clock for an analog ‘scope
In case the Dutchtronix oscilloscope clock kit didn’t mix enough modalities then consider this an alternative. – Digital clock circuit is based on AVR Attiny2313 microcontroller clocked at 4Mhz. Oscilloscope pattern is generated by using four microcontroller pins as DAC output. So in review – we go from the our linear/analog perception of time, represent […]
Arduino Etch-A-Scetch clock
Check out Angela Yuan’s Etch-A-Scetch Clock. An Arduino powers a few stepper motors that clear the screen once a minute and then draw the current time. It looks like there is a laptop that is sending commands, presumably time updates, to the Arduino via processing. Her site is a little scant on details, but there […]
D/A clock raises/lowers physical segments
Alvin Aronson, a student at RISD, made this clock that raises and lowers individual segments of corian gradually to tell the time. Very slick, here’s the video – Link, and his site – Link.