OverviewCurrently there are over 422 million people worldwide suffering from diabetes. 28.5% of them suffer from Diabetic Retinopathy(1) . 50% of diabetics are unaware about the risk of losing their vision(2). The number of cases of diabetic retinopathy...
The OriginsWhen we decided to throw a party in LA (which became know as The Gathering) I wanted it to be more than just free t-shirts and beer. Laser Graffiti popped to mind and I was glad that Ben was willing to take the lead on that project....
Details, details ,details..... It's alive. (The electronics/coding is actually the easy part...) The real challenge is those semi-translucent tubes... Found some cheap transparent tubes at Home Depot used for storing flourescent light-bulbs. 1 1/2 "...
The backlight is an electroluminescent panel which glows a nice cool blue color. Unfortunately when its off its kind of an ugly pinkish color, but why would you ever turn it off?Its controlled by a button on the left side of the calculator and powered...
Hardware used. Seeeduino v1.1 Phaktor bought this a few years back, played with it a couple of times but it just sat in his hobby bin ‘til now. Parallax LCD http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/27977/27... bought from RadioShack...
GoalsThe goal of this project is to emulate the Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite (via it's IEEE 802.15.4 protocol) and interpret the commands from Canon transceiver so that the Paul C Buff - Einstein light can be controlled with the Canon gear.CyberSync CSXCV...
Interactive Disk SpinThe Interactive Disk Spin was born one fateful night when Paul took the cover off an old hard drive, started compulsively spinning the shiny platters with his finger, and then wondered "how fast am I really making it go?" Two late-night...
This project has several components, each of which might potentially be its own project:1) The modded monocular head-mounted display/goggles2) The haptic glove interface3) The dehumidification mechanism for the goggles4) The software stack for implicit...
This was a project a few months in the making. I originally started it while I was still at SpaceX but really got to focus on it right before burning man 2013. I really wanted an 8 ft long carbon fiber staff with a ton of full bright white capable RGB...
Typically, a user should create a pointer to a cfg_struct, initialize it with cfg_init(), and then perform actions on that object (lookup, add, delete) by passing the pointer to the functions here. At end of use, call cfg_free to clean up the object....
Two weeks ago, I set off to a business trip to Germany, which is also my home country. I always try to have a few days of vacation included in such a trip in order to be able to visit my family. And what does a father with his son living in another country...
There's an old hard-disk which I stripped down so that the front only has spindle coming through. I used a mill to face off some of the protuberances and other features which held the read/write head-arm in place. At the bottom there is a PCB I...
I've wanted to build my own amp for quite a while. For bass guitar, the selection of amplifiers you can buy is pretty lack-luster, and mid-volume studio amps are hard to find. It seems like most of what's available is either a practice amp or a stadium...
HydraBus v1.0 Rev1.5 In Stock on DigiKey:https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/benjamin-vernoux/hydrabus-v1/15652912 Features of the HydraBus board: Very small board only 60mm x 37mm size (extensible with shield which can be connected on top or...
I bought an XMS amplifier from a friend years ago and although it was serving it's purpose I got quite frustrated with having to toggle the loudness feature every time the input was changed. This was the beginning of what has now become my network enabled...