This camera rig uses a Raspberry Pi to send a camera down fifty meters (mirror on RPi blog) in order to spy on sharks. We got really excited at first thinking that it might be using the camera module from the Raspberry Pi Foundation but that isn’t the case. Do keep reading though, there’s a lot of cool … Read the rest
Submersible camera snaps pics of ocean going predators
May 22, 2013 By 2 Comments
Vine app hack on iPhone makes time-lapse movies
May 22, 2013 By 17 Comments
The Vine app is all the rage these days. It lets you shoot six-second videos on your iPhone and easily post them on the Internet. The problem is that [Sean Hodgins] doesn’t find the time limit to be useful for traditional video. But you can cram a lot more info into a half-dozen seconds if you make it a time-lapse … Read the rest
Scratch-built desk adjusts so you may sit or stand
May 21, 2013 By 43 Comments
Knowing that this desk was built from scratch is pretty impressive. But the motorized legs that raise and lower the desk to any height really puts the project over the top.
Surprisingly this started off as a computer case project. [Loren] upgraded his hardware and couldn’t find a case that would organize it the way he liked. His desk at … Read the rest
33 Node Beowulf Cluster built with Raspberry Pi
May 21, 2013 By 57 Comments
Not only did [Josh Kiepert] build a 33 Node Beowulf Cluster, but he made sure it looks impressive even if you don’t know what it is. That’s thanks to the power distribution PCBs he designed and etched. In addition to injecting power through each of the RPi GPIO headers they host an RGB LED which is illuminated in blue … Read the rest
Electric motorcycle hits the racing circuit
May 21, 2013 By 24 Comments
Check out that beefy electric motor hanging out where the swing arm connects to the body of this motorcycle. It’s the muscle that makes this recently completed electric motorcycle ready to race.
[Jackson Edwards] has been hard at work building this from the ground up. His goal was to make it competitive with production line motorcycles and his most … Read the rest
Trimethyl Borate lantern built from garbage
May 20, 2013 By 17 Comments
This lantern was built from recyclable goods. It’s a bit dangerous when used like the image above, but [The Green Gentleman] does give you a few other options in his build instructions which make for much safer operation.
The lantern enclosure is made from old cans and a glass jar. He screwed a couple of boards together at a right … Read the rest
Camera-based touchscreen input via an FPGA
May 20, 2013 By 5 Comments
[Chonggang Li] wrote in to share a link to the final project he and [Ran Hu] built for their embedded systems class. It’s called Piano Hero and uses an FPGA to implement a camera-based touch screen system.
All of the hardware used in the project is shown above. The monitor acts as the keyboard, using an image produced by … Read the rest
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