Source and schematics for the Arduino based AIR project… – AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media’s portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots. Participants or “carriers” are able to see pollutant levels in their current […]
If you ever wanted to build a 1000 MHz RF spectrum analyzer (we all have) – this site shows you how to make one on the cheap-ish side…Link.
Convert a DVD-R drive in to a lab scanner (or…microimmunoanalysis on standard compact discs to determine low abundant compounds) – it’s pretty amazing, you put the samples on the CDR and use the laser to analyze them. This could be a super portable and low cost way to do a lot of testing – [via] […]
Emilio developed a useful looking add-on for Eclipse, he writes – The PicCBuilder is an Eclipse plugin for allowing the use of Eclipse CDT as the editor and builder of projects for Microchip PIC microcontrollers. It creates makefiles that involke the C30 toolchain to generate the binary files. PIC C Builder for Eclipse – Link. […]
This hexapod robot by animatronic artist Matt Denton is sure to freak your freak. Truly impressive. Micromagic Systems (Denton’s animatronics site) – [via] Link
Our buds at uC Hobby have another “winner” in their “Hobby Parts for Articles” program: Oscar Gonzalez gives us a simple tutorial for speed controlling a PC FAN and reading a LM35 temperature sensor with an Arduino microcontroller. He covers the use of an optocoupler, PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) and reading analog voltages with the […]
Daniel M. German found a way to automate perspective correction and projection adjustments for his wide angle photography. He does this by using a Wiimote to record the pitch and roll of the camera at the time a photo is taken. This information can then be fed directly into panotools, instead of manually entering control […]
