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By now we’re assuming you are all familiar with Google’s “Project Glass”, an ambitious augmented reality project for which they revealed a promotional video last week. [Will Powell] saw the promo vid and was so inspired that he attempted to rig up a demo of Project Glass for himself at home. While it might seem like a daunting project to take on, [Will] does a lot of work with … [Read more...]
[Matias] is just getting into hobby electronics and decided to push the limits of his skill by building this game clock. He comes from a software design background and that really shows through in the UI design seen in the video after the break. We enjoy the journey through his prototyping process which started with an Arduino and a breadboard, and ended with this standalone timer. After … [Read more...]
Don't mind me, I'm just listening to some tunes during our poker game. Well, that and getting some electronic coaching about poker odds. This board lets you wiggle your toes to input the upcards, and those in your hand. After each entry the gadget will tell you your odds of winning the hand. Take it easy with this kind of stuff, if Rounders was at all realistic, getting caught cheating is a … [Read more...]
[Muris] has a friend who is selling items on the internet. This friend wanted a simple way to make rotating images of the products and asked him to help. The result of his labors is this base unit that drives the turn table and controls the camera. The first iteration of the turntable was powered by the stepper motor from a floppy drive. A disc was mounted directly on the motor spindle, but the … [Read more...]
This hurts our head You know you can 'freeze' drops of water in mid-air by flashing a LED at the right time, right? Well, according to this video you don't even need a strobing light; just use the frame rate of the camera. Much cooler if you don't know how it works, in our humble opinion. Now do Junkyard Wars! [James Cameron] and [Mark Burnett] (the guy who created Survivor) are … [Read more...]
[Vinod] has done a lot of work with microcontrollers, but this is his first try at displaying graphics using composite video. He had a small PAL television on hand, and an ATmega32 which just needs a stable clock source and a few resistors to get things going. There are a lot of other hacks around that use composite video out with microcontrollers. But this is a ground-up approach which will … [Read more...]
The laser printer portion of this all-in-one machine gave up the ghost and [Entropia] couldn't get it working again. But the scanner was still functioning so he decided to separate the scanner from its dead printer module. The model in question is a Samsung SCX-4200. The design is actually perfect for separation because the scanner sits on top of the out feed tray of the printer. It can even … [Read more...]
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