Technology

Treasure hunting robot

Treasure hunting robot

This is a neat, it’s like a Roomba and a metal detector had a kid… A REMOTE controlled metal detector built by a Wiltshire man could revolutionise the art of treasure hunting. Resembling something from the TV show Robot Wars, the invention, devised by John Corney, of Corsley Heath, can climb over footballs and has […]

DIY AVR based MP3 player

DIY AVR based MP3 player

Bozai writes – This is one of my DIY works. It uses a mp3/wma/wav/mid decode chip VS1003, ATmega8L and SD card. It supports various bitrate music file. Supports both FAT16 and FAT32. For the reason of space, resource the screen was not added. But a couple of LED were used to indicate the state. :: […]

Mineral oil submerged computer

Mineral oil submerged computer

Puget Custom Computers made a nice mineral oil submerged computer – Over the years, we have seen many projects on the web that cooled a computer using common vegetable oil, including a very popular video by Tom’s Hardware. We felt that by building a computer in an aquarium using clear mineral oil, that we would […]