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 "...
A dedicated phone line is a staple for any presidents desk. And now that Google is giving away phone numbers anyone can have a single use line for free. Using a TI Launchpad to interact with it is just fun.
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...
I needed to remove the dials and the switch from the board because I wanted to have them accessible from the rim of the ear muff. However, each of these components had a minimum of 5 pins. My approach was to use a hot air gun to melt all the solder on...
I needed to remove the dials and the switch from the board because I wanted to have them accessible from the rim of the ear muff. However, each of these components had a minimum of 5 pins. My approach was to use a hot air gun to melt all the solder on...
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...
The transmitter in the fourth picture uses a few more parts. I had a 3.3V breakout board and the signal reached only about a yard. So I added a 555 voltage doubler to Albert's hardwarehttp://www.talkingelectronics.com/projects/50%20-%20555%20Circuits/50%20-%20555%20Circuits.htm...
Heres how to make it :Unscrew the back off the laser pen.Remove the cap off the ink pen and cut the tip off about the height of the three batteries from the laser pen .Drill a hole in the tip of the ink pen cap and drill two holes through the back of...
The heavy lifting is done by an ATmega324PA, which generates the video, interprets the PS/2 keyboard scancodes and provides a serial interface. It is clocked at 27MHz. This frequency was chosen because it can provide correct timings for both NTSC and...
The heavy lifting is done by an ATmega324PA, which generates the video, interprets the PS/2 keyboard scancodes and provides a serial interface. It is clocked at 27MHz. This frequency was chosen because it can provide correct timings for both NTSC and...
Keep in mind, for windows 7+ I had to change the friendly names of each web cam so that Processing can address each one consistently. Here is a tutorial: http://www.eightforums.com/customization/15321-tu... Also, here is an Instructable to hack the power...
For a while had been wanting to experiment with having touchscreens around the house to add more home control options to a location. Having a smartphone and older iPod touches used as remote controls, I knew they aren't always within reach or easily...
Residency0x03FieldKitFieldKit is an open-source software and hardware platform (environmental sensors, app, and FieldKit.org website) that allows individuals and organizations to collect and share field-based research data, and to tell stories through...