Our pals at Design News has a great card counter electronics project you can build (PDF has the step by step and source code) – “Take down the house with this gadget. William’s handheld controller provides the display of a monitored process deviation — but after hours it doubles as a card counter. (In either […]
Brunurb is building a one meter model RC yacht, photos – Link. Plans and construction guide from the AMYA (American Model Yachting Association) available for download – Link.
Steve writes – “Sometimes you need a good thunderstorm and the weather won’t cooperate. OK, maybe it’s just me. I cobbled together a fake thunderstorm from bits and pieces lying around the house. The components are: 1. A CD deck 2. An amplifier with line in / line out (actually a broken boom box) 3. […]
For $699 this drive can duplicate 6 full DVDs per hour or 12 full CDs per hour with a 25 disc capacity and has a cool little robo arm that does most of the work [via] – Link. I’ve seen a few DIY versions (and we’ll likely see more) – but it’s not a bad […]
Adding to the list of interesting kits… EMAC has a $399 embedded Linux starter kit – “Embedded computers are integrated into all sorts of common equipment, from soda machines to incubators. Since these systems require high reliability and low failure rates, more and more companies are loading Linux onto these embedded computers. The Linux Starter […]
Alpha of a Nintendo DS MIDI sequencer, Therain writes – “I have been hard at work the past couple of weeks creating a MIDI sequencer that uses my MIDI library and hardware hack for the Nintendo DS. The dSTAR Sequencer will be an x0x like sequencer with drawable bar graph sequence lines… The demo uses […]
Plans and how-tos for building a Dobsonian telescope from The San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers and Ray Cash [via] – Link. Related: Telescope projects – Link.
