It's been a while since I've seen a new twist on POV hardware. This time it's 'the Orb' - comprised of a set of LEDs that rotate to form a sphere. Hopefully more docs are forthcoming. It looks like all the hardware except the motor is contained on the boards inside the sphere - maybe power is provided via the two ends of the spindle? The visuals are driven by a pic C18 with hall effect sensors to … [Read more...]
IM Serial puppet
December 18, 2006 By 11 Comments
[Pierre-Philippe] sent in his instant messenger USB puppet. It's a little silly, but I like it. The puppets servo is driven by a pic controller with a max232 serial/ttl converter. To make things interesting, it responds to people entering and leaving gaim or xchat. … [Read more...]
Gesture laser pointer control
December 17, 2006 By 34 Comments
After I linked his basic laser pointer webcam interface the other day, [mnt] sent me this excellent demo of his gesture based laser pointer control. This one works alot like graffiti on the old palm pilots. My question? What does he make when he's not sick? … [Read more...]
Ben Heck’s Atari 800 Laptop
December 16, 2006 By 7 Comments
Ben's been working on this one forever. This new version 2 Atari 800 laptop features a CF drive, a RS lcd, original Atari hardware and lots and lots of friggin soldering. That keyboard is hand wired, along with the CF adapter. Unlike the xbox 360 laptop, this one's got Ni-MH batteries that are good for about an hour of play. … [Read more...]
Ballast… overclocking
December 15, 2006 By 5 Comments
I started to put up this after the wash with the pentium heater. Of course, we had it already. (and it's a fake to top it off) Sigh. There's nothing like making yourself look like an idiot on friday night. The comments below are from my bungle, I'm not going to delete them.Instead, I bring you an interesting thread on overclocking HID Metal Halide lamp ballasts over on the lumenlab forums. … [Read more...]
pentium powered extra with friggin’ lasers
December 14, 2006 By 20 Comments
[Neil] sent along this one and I found this one highly amusing. The latest use for recycling those old cpus: overvolt them a bit with a USB cable and keep your coffee cup warm. Use them as dressing for heat generating resistors.[nik] came up with a non-destructive way to mount an external wi-fi antenna to his thinkpad. I like it, but I think you need a double height PCMCIA slot to fit it - Maybe a … [Read more...]
Self parking lego mindstorms
December 13, 2006 By 8 Comments
[Korvost] er, [Hybrid] sent along this video of a lego mindstorm self parking car. I don't think I'd want it parking next to my ride considering how much damage it did to the blocks. Man, I need to upgrade my legos. Sadly, this video just re-iterates one of the my problems with Youtube videos. Video posters tend to fail to provide links with more information about their projects/hacks. Via … [Read more...]
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