Kipkay writes – First time in the world a blu-ray laser from a Playstation 3 has been installed in a Star Trek Phaser! Build one yourself for around $100. I “Boldy go where no man has gone before”! Watch the video and then follow the Steps to build your own! DIY Blu-Ray Laser Phaser! – […]
Bruce Land writes: Students at Cornell University were given the responsibility of choosing, designing and building a microcontroller project,. This year’s projects include laser pong, air guitar, an evolving neural robot, and a USB host controller. During the last 5 weeks of the spring semester in ECE476, Microcontroller Design, students have to combine sensors, actuators, […]
Looking to embed mp3 audio into a microcontroller project? I just came across this unit and would be curious to see how it works: VMUSIC is a product that not only lets you add USB Flash drive interfacing to your product but allows you to play back MP3 and other popular digital music formats direct […]
uC Hobby has posted the second installment of their Arduino sound articles. This is the second in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The first article covered the various methods available for sound generation with an Arduino. In this article we take a small step; “Hello World” for Arduino sound. We […]
Last night was the second meeting of the Phoenix DIY, and we had three fantastic presentations from Chris Coleman, Mark Rehorst, and Kelly Bedson. Some pictures: Second Phoenix DIY meeting with a recumbent carbon fiber bike, a self-balancing skateboard, and an origami workshop – Link.
New World Notes posted an interview with Zora Spoonhammer, a Second Life hacker who created an enormous in-world earth model, complete with dynamic weather that’s pulled from real world weather sources: “Come back up here!” Zora Spoonhammer shouts after him, before he disappears over the horizon. “He’s my husband in real life. He’s silly that […]
No Roomba left behind. Here’s a cool Instructable on how to control and add telepresence to a Roomba using a OLPC XO-1 laptop. OLPC Telepresence – [via] Link
