James made another cool project. This time it’s a solar powered Theremin powered by the 1381 solar engine. You can buy a kit on his website, but he even included the schematics (at the bottom of the site) if you want to go ahead and make one from scratch. Thanks James! Read more about a […]
In case you haven’t been keeping up – The desktop wallpaper project over @ Kitsune Noir has been running strong, amassing quite a diverse collection of new art to dress up your OS. Inspiring work – I just might try penning a few patterns myself – The Desktop Wallpaper Project Related: Desktop art from UPSO […]
Here’s an episode of EngineeringTV featuring a gecko-inspired wall-walker being developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Waalbot Wall Climbing Robot
Wow, Flixwagon did what seemed impossible stream live video from an iPhone! Ken writes – We’re happy to announce that our development team at the Flixwagon lab has successfully streamed the first-ever live high-quality video from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client. While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid […]
David writes in – TheVaporTrail: Medallion: Circle LED Animation via . This circular board has 12 LEDs animated by a microcontroller. Assembly and HEX code and EAGLE files are provided on the web page. This project uses the Simple LED Animation Kit (SLAK post or page) with the LEDs arranged in a circle around the […]
No substitute for a professional oscilloscope by far – but still could be a fun project to have a go at – probably the best advantage is its very small size and the fact that it can run off the power supply of the circuit being tested. Although it has a low frequency range, it […]
Here’s a relatively simple approach to lightning photography using a trusty blueboard – […] the most useful piece of data in the wikipedia article is the time lapse shot of a lightning strike. From the time lapse photo I was able to determine the duration of a lightning strike is about 100 ms. Then from […]
