HOW TO – Make a LED flower vase
Here’s how to make a simple LED flower vase… Link.
Technology
Autonomous foosball table
Shane writes – Our senior design project (at Georgia Tech) was an open ended design. We chose to create an autonomous foosball table. The ball as well as the opponent players are tracked in a vision system — a downward looking webcam. All the main processing is done on an 800 MHz pentium 3 PC […]
Fix a broken Rock Band strummer bar
Several Rock Band players are dealing with an issue with the Fender’s strummer bar. If your Strat starts going wonky and doesn’t register strums or occasionally double-strums, chances are your problem can be easily solved with a couple of screw drivers. The problem is that the screw which holds the switch in place can come […]
LED multitouch input device
An 8 x 8 LED-based multitouch input device using an ARM7 microcontroller with USB 2.0 with a >25Hz capture rate. LED Touch Panel – [via] Link
BUG SDK and Bug Labs community live
The Bug labs folks launched their community section if their site and SDK. I had a chance to check some of it out last night and will post more later… good stuff… Bug Labs has just unveiled the community section of its website (http://buglabs.net) to the public. Now anyone can download the SDK, develop and […]
HOW TO – Make a realistic electronic flame flicker
The latest Gadget Freak, holiday style! – Give your Christmas lighting a country look and make your Nativity scene more realistic with an electronic flame flicker. This device can be used as a lamp dimmer or a flame flicker simulator, and may be switched on and off with the switch on a lamp. The flicker […]
Read/write access to Linux partitions from Windows
I read today on Lifehacker about a freeware tool called Linux Reader. It provides you with read access to ext2/ext3 partitions within Windows and has an explorer-like interface that allows you to drag and drop files from a standard Linux partition. What about full read/write access? With a little googling, I found another freeware utility […]