Chatbot
Chatbot is a set of wireless chatting terminals using 128X64 graphics LCDs & Ericson Mobile keyboards, the site has more details (and the hex files if you cooked one up) … Link.
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Building MIDI – Micro-controller programming for artists – classes @ LEMUR
A couple classes coming up @ LEMUR in NYC – these are one of the few places to learn these things in person, everyone who has taken these classes that I know really enjoyed them. Pictured here, the Slime-o-tron! Building MIDI Music & Video Controllers: Creating a Sensor Instrument with MidiTron Tue-Thu, Oct 9-11, 6:30-9:30 […]
Making a walking robot doll
Here’s a video of making a robot doll-like project from start to finish, and the music is catchy.
Arduino – DIY Digital in car gauges (multisensor display)
Justin writes – I’ve been working on this project for about 6 months now. It’s a digital multigauge based on the arduino. In its current form it shows oil temp, turbo pressure, accelerometer readings, a timer, and two misc temps. The code is freely available (though not 100% complete) as are the schematics. I designed […]
Electronic, battery-less dice
Dhananjaygadre writes – A Microcontroller, AVR Tiny13 based electronic dice, that does not use any battery or any normal power source. Instead it derives its power from a voltage generator based on the Faraday principle using a coil wound over a tube and a magnet inside the tube. To use the dice, just shake the […]
DIY Vacuum extraction recycling facillity, also known as the super can crusher
Here’s the latest “Gadget Freak” from our friends @ Design News – Let’s say you have a Beer Chucking Refrigerator within range and a Can Crusher out in the shed. Now all you need is a way to get the empties out to the can crusher without having to get up and walk out to […]
Pyro-tech hack fixes infamous iBook video defect
Jason Striegel of Hackszine writes: Mark Hoekstra from GeekTechnique subjected his iBook’s motherboard to successive rounds of burnination and managed to correct the infamous iBook video display defect. Had this not succeeded, I think I’d still have to give him 10 points for style. In addition to other quality control problems like frayed wires in […]