The tikker
In the comments of the “Mechanical hit counter project” daan__ writes – “I built something like this from a old telephone counter: (it makes a nice sound in our lab )” – Link.
Technology
Box shaped heart
Raphael writes – Here it is: a box, yes, ladies and gentlemen, a box that can read your pulse and displays it visually as well as auditory. All of this in one simple box. The wireless aspect is still to come, this is the 1.0 version – wired. Look for the 2.0 wireless version next […]
Please Insert CD1 to Continue… I Think Not
Every now and then, I dust off one of the many classic games I never finished and give it another go. This time it’s Baldur’s Gate II. Every time I do this, I have to deal with the “Insert Your Play Disc” hassle. I don’t mind this when it’s my desktop computer, but on my […]
ELM – AVR based radio spectrum monitor
Chan writes – This is an experimental work to monitor a spectrum pattern in radio band, and is a continuous project from Audio Spectrum Monitor. To analyze the spectrum of an input signal, I chose an Atmel AVR microcontroller that used in the Audio Spectrum Monitor to process FFT. When think it easy, it can […]
Import Your Old Mail to GMail With GML
GMail Loader is a cross-platform Python utility that can import mail messages from several mail storage formats (including mBox and MailDir) straight into your GMail account. It doesn’t currently support Outlook’s PST format, but there are utilities for converting PST to mBox format (see below). Eventually, support for direct access to IMAP will be added, […]
Arc furnace that melts anything
Handy for arc experiments, Popular Science 1933 HEAT so terrific that no known substance is able to withstand it for long can be developed in your home laboratory with nothing more than a pair of electric light carbons, a small crucible, and some means of controlling the flow of the electric current from the house […]
Strenco steamrobot (video)
I-Wei writes – Another steambot (www.strenco.de), this one has been blogged before, but here it is in action! Oh I can so take it on with my steam walker in a steambot race, but I have an unfair advantage of having more legs…. anyway quite an amazing achievement! Strenco robot live steamrobot – Link.