Five years ago, I modified a 1998 Furby into a Jorge Luis Borges animatronic. At that time all Furby hacks butchered the original toy, so my approach was to leave intact all the parts and electronics hijacking the audio. That “zen” hack...
Hello everyone! Firstly, please don't make assumptions if you've come across a post similar to this one before. I'm reaching out to connect with fellow robot enthusiasts who share my passion. While I'm an engineer and creator, I'm not a writer, so I...
Parameterized - IoT Confrigurator The following is intended to illustrate the capabilities of my parameterized IoT configurator with an actual use. I recently wanted to measure the temperature and humidity in my house. I live in the Dominican Republic...
Bender Bending Rodriguez, Sr., AKA Bending Unit 22, AKA BenderConstructedTijuana 2996Serial Number2716057LanguagesEnglish (American)Space BeePenguinKnown BugsFolk music under influence of magnetsAccording to the Internets, Benders specifications are...
1. Hardware The PROM module EXTROM-2 is into a 15 cm x 10 cm x 4 cm aluminum die-cast enclosure as shown in Fig. 1. The circuit is mounted on a universal board and wiring was done by wire wrapping as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 1 PROM module...
1.0 - What would be a Tricorder I met many scientists, some internationally renowned, who were not afraid to say that their work had some influence from science fiction. In fact, Science Reality contains a lot of inspiration from Science Fiction. In...
A Weller WD1 soldering station controller was found in a refuse pile, abandoned apparently because some of the LCD segments had failed. Googling for a fix or spare parts revealed the LCD display isn't anymore available and there were no repair case reports...
1. Application software 1-1. Planet position calculation program I have made an application program for PERSEUS-9 to determine the coordinate positions of the planet's geocentric distance and right ascension and declination on any given day...
I was reading some article where, writer was trying to impress upon the affect of Reaction time on life of athletes, snipers, cricketers and baseball players. Finally he concluded with its effect on life of normal people and I was amazed to see that...
Easy Raspberry PI Cluster Setup with Cloudmesh from MacOS Set up many SD Cards directly from MacS that are preconfigured to create PI clusters.By Gregor von Laszewski (laszewski@gmail.com, laszewski.github.io), Richard Otten, Anthony Orlowski...
From the Latin, "Docta Vox" meaning "learned voice" or something like that according to Google Translate. It sounded cool and I'm bad at naming things anyway. So there you have it. This project uses Processing with STT (speech to text) and TTS (text...
This simple example can be extended in several ways and used in more complex gesture recognition cases, such as map navigation and routes creation, TV interface control when playing games or switching channels, control of children's toys by hand movements,...
Time-lapse:Table of contents: SummaryCPURAMVGAKeyboardPower DeliveryComponents 1. Summary This project is a physical implementation of the Hack Computer, as described in the From Nand To Tetris course. The course describes the hardware design of...
First of all, in that regard, it requires us to have some preliminary information about food ingredients to interpret their health stats.For some of us, it can be struggling to inspect packaging information on ingredients, for instance, elderly and children.And,...
Although many factors can lead to poor air quality, the two most common are related to elevated concentrations of ground-level ozone and particulate matter. Ground-level ozone forms when nitrogen oxides (NOx) from sources like vehicle exhaust and industrial...