That’s great, but why does it need an entire microcontroller and stuff to transmit morse over radio, when a little transmitter/receiver chip will do the same job with less bulk?

Posted at 2:41 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by melt

@ melt
because the goal of the course was to use the xbee’s. But it does seem like they could have thought of some more innovative ideas than morse code…

Posted at 3:19 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by liam

I totally thought of this when I was in school! I wanted to build a simple transmitter/receiver “dead bug style” inside a pen, using the button on the end as a key and having a tiny LED somewhere so you could message people with a similar pen. The only problem is you’d need to learn morse :)

Actually, now I think about it you can use a 1MHz oscillator as a simple AM transmitter than can be picked up by commercial radios tuned to 1000. Perhaps I’ll resurrect the idea.

Posted at 7:13 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by PKM

I remember something from one of the Radio Shack topical project “notebooks” that had an AM transmitter you could build from a plain NPN transistor, a couple of resistors, a 1.5v battery, and a hand-wound coil that just happened to be the diameter of a Bic pen. Combine that with an old AM radio and you’ve got yourself a project.

Posted at 7:26 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by pokey

I was mistaken. It was one cap and one resistor. Replace the resistor with a resistive sensing element and you’ve got yourself a tiny telemetry transmitter.

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/rft1.htm

Posted at 7:30 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by pokey

Ha ha when I was a kid I had one of those “project” kits from Radio shack to build my own mini transmitter .. It was very easy.

Then I discovered Ham Radio … and nothing has been the same since. :)

Posted at 7:39 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by DigitalMind

@melt and @liam actually there isn’t a microcontroller on the glove, it’s just the lilypad circuit board with Xbee nicely attached for ease of sewing. Because the Xbee itself would be damn near impossible to sew those little pins.

Posted at 8:12 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by alicia

awww, just like edison and his wife.

nice.

Posted at 9:14 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by strider_mt2k

The guy kinda reminds me of sylar…

Now the glove looks all sinister…

Posted at 9:22 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by spadefinger

Can we read anything into these two looking just like the video shop owner and his girlfriend in Men in Black II (albeit with more hair)?

I guess they must’ve only spent $1 on their lobster dinner and it was full of mercury…

Posted at 10:01 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by Roger

well, I’ll say this… the one on the right is a total stud muffin. I dunno about that muppet looking girl though. And why isn’t there a more manly thread friendly arduino clone…

Posted at 10:32 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by matt joyce

@spadefinger: Lol – more like Syler’s “slow” brother who only thinks he has powers.

Posted at 10:41 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by VonSkippy

woah.. she’s hot.. pix please.

Posted at 4:44 pm on Dec 15th, 2008 by aka-44

@aka-44:

Get out more. Seriously.

Posted at 10:33 pm on Dec 16th, 2008 by 3D

@3d:

how will that help me get pix of her?

Posted at 10:40 am on Dec 19th, 2008 by aka-44