How To – Make a desk lamp from a scanner
This Instructable details how to turn a scanner lamp assembly into a tres geeky desk lamp. Scanner Parts – Desk Lamp – Link Related: Old scanner = light table – Link
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Arduino blog
If you’re really in to Arduino, and *a lot* of you are… Here’s a new blog from the Arduino team in Italy! – [via] Link.
iPhone MAME & Z-Machine Interpreter for iPhone
MAME & Z-Machine apps for the iPhone, these involve the usual amount hackery to get them going, but very cool! As expected, performance is an issue. For example, Pacman and Q*bert run quite well, but Galaga and Gyruss are marginal even with frame skipping and lowered sound quality. The SDL port was the quickest way […]
HOW TO – Make an H-bridge
Randofo writes – An H-bridge is a type of circuit that you can use to get a reversible DC motor to spin both clockwise and counterclockwise. In other words, this circuit allows you to quickly reverse the direction a motor is spinning by using a switch or controller chip to change its direction. I’m going […]
HOW TO – Make a a wind-up headboard reading light
Peter writes – I love to read in bed. This is one of the true pleasures in my life, and I begin and end every day doing it. One day, I was reading an article about living off-the-grid, which seemed like a neat idea, but also a real stretch for a production home suburbanite like […]
AVR based GPS tracker…
Here’s a neat AVR – GPS – cell phone tracker project… This project is about GPS tracing. it works as follows: – GPS traces the position of the device via satelite – Somebody (who wants to know the position) calls the number of the GSM-Module – The Microcontroller noticed the call and ask the position […]
Cucumber robotic hand
Remember those edible robots we posted up? Here’s another, a vegetable based giant cucumber robot hand!- Link.
