The Garbage Reader 1.0 (aka G.R 1.0 or Grone), is the first of a series of robots by Ireland-based, French artist Ben Gaulon that analyzes the contents of garbage bins. The bot senses its immediate environment for toxicity, temperature, and humidity levels and remotely reports the data over a network while it’s head-mounted camera streams […]
Instructables user arcticpenguin hacked an RC car to make a vibrating dog collar for his deaf dog and shows us how to do the same for about five dollars. The hardest part may be training your old dog to the new trick! Via the Instructables Weekend Builder.
Electrick made this interactive LED candle. It uses an Arduino and a simple aluminum foil switch to control the flickering. There are more photos and the code on the web site. The LED glows, but when I blow across a simple little switch I tossed together, the LEDs flicker like a candle does when you […]
A fume extractor uses an activated carbon filter and fan to remove the smoke, and noxious fumes, created from soldering. The average price of a small hobby version is about $100, this one will run you about $10. This fume extractor will not be as effective as a larger one, but it is better than […]
Linus Ã…kesson made this amazing robot to clean out his kitchen chimney. In the end, the chimney was clean, and the kitchen fan worked once again. The claw hangs from a long cable, providing power and a control signal to the servo. At the other end of the cable is a plastic box with a […]
David sent in this cool AVR project called “Craft”. It uses an AVR microcontroller to make 80’s type computer graphics and music. If you just can’t wait to hear the awesome music, skip to 1:00 in the video. All the schematics and lots more pictures are on the web site. Having successfully built a soundchip […]
Our friend Jake von Slatt sent in this remake of a telegraph sounder: A kind fellow sent me these step by step instructions for building a telegraph sounder that closely resembles the classic brass and iron sounders of yore – only this one is a re-make with wood that can be accomplished with simple hand […]
