Here’s a crafty solution to noisy hard disks: suspend it with elastic! Jason @ HACKS tipped us off to this silencing technique. From Silent PC Review: As the pictures show, the drive is essentially suspended on the stretched elastic. The resilience of the elastic stops all vibrations from passing from the drive to the case […]
Brock used an arduino to generate glockenspiel sequences from a magnetic stripe reader. The casual video demo (with some charming text corrections) demonstrates how Arduino can make physical projects much more approachable for newcomers. – Brockenspiel [via] Related: DIY doorbell(s) From the pages of MAKE: MAKE:01 p.108 Magnetic stripe reader – subscribers, read this article […]
At first glance, Stanford’s Cool Products Expo looked like a regular college career fair. That is, until I saw the solar-powered car, tilting trike, Tesla car and BMW’s hydrogen car parked on the lawn. Inside the packed hall, instead of suits touting companies there were dozens of, well, cool products. They ranged from a design […]
For a buck’s worth of materials, you can quiet your PC by damping your hard disk’s vibration: As the pictures show, the drive is essentially suspended on the stretched elastic. The resilience of the elastic stops all vibrations from passing from the drive to the case — or vice versa, for that matter. … When […]
Tom Lee made this transit alert frame using a web script and an Arduino board. from the DCist: Tom Lee configured D.C.’s metro schedule to alert him to when the next train will be available from his house; all packaged in a nifty frame. “So if there’s enough time left to catch the train, the […]
Here’s a short video of a few of the neat things we ran in to (or in some cases, ran in to us) at RoboBusiness 2008. Enjoy! In this video: Stair climber robot, iRobot’s Create, Snake robot from CMU, a Korean toy bot and more… Related: Segway’s new RMP @ RoboBusiness 2008. Live from RoboBusiness […]
The “Drool” is an Arduino based midi interface that functions as a drum sequencer operated with a crank. The user can also use their hands to manipulate the rhythm of the beats and the data is sent as MIDI out to a circuit controlling 8 solenoids that produce a tapping sound.
