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3D printers are very popular right now. We've seen them go from an interesting project to multiple commercial entities. Makerbot seems to be the poster child for the commercial side of things, at least they were. Their former COO [Samuel Cervantes] is now in charge of a new company called Solidoodle. Their main product is a complete 3d printing kit for $499. You supply power and a computer. The … [Read more...]
[Robert Mibus] took on a project which his kids could present to Mom on Mother's Day. It's an LED heart built into a ring or necklace box. The series of white LEDs are animated in a chase pattern. The project let [Robert] push his comfort boundaries by moving past a stock Arduino board. Inside you'll find an ATtiny85. He picked up the chip to try running Arduino sketches on smaller hardware. … [Read more...]
Ooooh, nice enclosure! This is a little motion sensing lamp which [Krazatchu] built a few years back as a Mother's Day gift. The PIR sensor is easy enough to see as the white dome on the front of the case. But look closely below that and you'll see the LDR which it uses to keep the thing asleep during the day. This is intended to save on batteries but the original version still ate through them … [Read more...]
Here are the contronl modules for a sous-vide project over at Nerdkits. [Humberto] and crew continue doing a great job of focusing a project on one goal, then explaining the steps needed to get there. In this case they wanted to build their own sous-vide appliance that was cheap, and didn't really require the user to deal with mains voltage. We like it because most of the parts can be found at a … [Read more...]
[Rob Morris] has been hard at working improving his guitar augmentation techniques. Here he's demonstrating the use of an iPhone to control the effects while he plays. This builds on the work he shared a few years ago where he strapped a Wii remote to the body of his ax. Just like the Wii remote, the iPhone includes an accelerometer. As you would expect the best parts of the older hack made it … [Read more...]
[Bryan] got his hands on a solar panel and decided to take it on the road rather than throwing it on the roof of the house. On sunny days it will top off the car battery, letting him use his stereo in the middle of nowhere without needing to keep the engine running. Instead of buying a ready-made solution he chose to design and build his own charging circuitry. The charger uses an Arduino, … [Read more...]
That awful buzzing/beeping beside the bed in the morning might not seem so bad if it were a cascade of bubbles instead. At least that's what [Will] is hoping for. He took a child's toy and turned it into a bubble blowing alarm clock. We're guessing you're not going to be too happy with the alarm settings feature. This isn't using a real-time clock, or any clock at all really. [Will] rolled his … [Read more...]
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