I picked up the Esquire E-ink’ed cover today and took a bunch of high res photos, you can find them here… a couple of the the low res ones are above. For the makers out there: It has a programming header, 5-pin ISP. It has a Microchip PIC 12f629 which is flash programmable, 8 pin. […]
The Green Microgym recently opened in Portland, Oregon – in addition to using solar panels and green building materials, they’re working with several companies that harvest power from gym equipment, including ReRev and Human Dynamo. More: Kinetic charger
A device that drives squirrels nuts via Book of Joe… Bill pondered the ways humans have chosen to deal with squirrels — poisoning, shooting, trapping — and decided no one had tried to annoy them into submission. That is Bill Earl’s great contribution to pest control: He’s the first man to think of ticking squirrels […]
CleanTechnica points us to M2E’s kinetically-powered portable charger due to be released next summer. The kinetic energy system uses the Faraday Principle, which states that the movement of a conductor through a magnetic field produces voltage in the conductor proportional to the speed of movement. In this case, the conductor is a wire coil. The […]
The 1920s satnav … and other weird and wonderful gadgets that never quite took off… via Land-o-links. CLOCKWORK TEASMADE – Patented in Birmingham in 1902, this brass and copper tea maker was the first Teasmade. The alarm clock triggered a switch and a match was then struck against moving sandpaper, lighting the spirit stove under […]
This site shows a step-by-step mod to get your Nintendo Wiimote to flash an LED when it rumbles. Ingredients for this mod include a Triwing screwdriver, a 0603 LED, copper circuit tape, and some wire strippers. Pretty simple mod that will definitely add some bling to your game. LED Rumble
Dark Roasted Blend has a large round-up of weird, wonderful, and thoroughly unnecessary computer casemods. Some of these you’ve likely already seen in your online haunts, others not. Cool Computer Case Mods
