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[Zach] saw a stuffed animal that projected some simple stars on the ceiling. This gave him an idea that he could build a tiny star projector for his 3 month old daughter's room. The idea is to put an LED inside a ping pong ball with tiny holes and rotate it slowly. The electronics are fairly strait forward. He's using an MSP430 to control the servo and LED, allowing him to set different … [Read more...]
Industrial control robot band Remember Animusic, a series of videos featuring computer-generated, highly implausible instruments? Intel made their own to demo their industrial control tech. From the looks of things, we're putting money on a bunch of MIDI triggers bolted onto plastic panels; now it's slightly less impressive and the reason we're looking at xylophones on eBay right … [Read more...]
Although award shows aren't necessarily our thing, [T. D.] sent in something that piqued our interest. His friends recently got back from the Grammy awards where they witnessed thousands of LED bracelets blinking in time to a performance by Coldplay. A little bit of YouTubing pulled up this video that demonstrates the effect (because that video will probably be taken down shortly, just pick … [Read more...]
Having a communal music collection being played on random can be really fun. You experience new music and get to hear old favorites. However, not everyone shares the same taste. Sometimes, you absolutely need to just skip the song coming on, for the sake of everyone involved. That was how the Panic button was born. Starting with a joke panic button that would play an alarm sound, they promptly … [Read more...]
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