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This piece of furniture actually resides in [Matt Pratt's] livingroom but we think it would make a perfect kitchen island. The base is a chest freezer modified to keep the beer inside at just the right temperature. But this doesn't just dispense the beer, the system is designed to tell you how many pints are left in each keg. The freezer offers enough room for four five-gallon Cornelius kegs. … [Read more...]
When a project starts off by heating acid to its boiling point we say no thanks. But then again we're more for the projects that use ones and zeros or a hot soldering iron. If you're comfortable with the chemistry like [Michail] this might be right up your alley. He used boiling acid to expose and photograph the die from several integrated circuits. The title of our feature is a play on words. … [Read more...]
From the looks of the latest update [James] has made quite a bit of progress on his bipedal robot. He added to the top of the post just a few days ago, but didn't include the video link which you'll find embedded after the break. There's about ten minutes of explanation before he gets down to demonstrating the static and dynamic balance which can be chosen using the buttons on a TV remote. We … [Read more...]
After getting his hands on the Philips Hue smart lightbulb [Brandon Evans] cracked open some of the hardware to see what is inside. He also spent time working out the software tricks necessary to use Siri to control light bulbs from iOS. If you haven't heard of the Hue product before it's an LED bulb that fits in a standard medium base whose color and intensity can be controlled wirelessly. … [Read more...]
This one might be an oldie, but it's certainly a goodie. Way back in 2005, [David] and [Charles] needed a project for one of their engineering courses. With so many loose resistors scattered over the lab, they decided to build an automated resistor sorter (PDF warning) to separate these resistors and put resistors of the same value together in the same bin. The electrical and programming … [Read more...]
If you and your friends were gathering a pool of bets together as to when the first patent case would happen in 3d printing, someone just won the pot. 3D systems has filed suit against formlabs for possible patent infringement. In a press release by 3D systems, they state that not only are they going after form labs, but also Kickstarter for selling the device. Although Formlabs has … [Read more...]
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