Check out the latest keyboard project over at uC Hobby. If you want a free LCD display from uC Hobby, read this.
“Here you see the controller board sitting in the new box with the wires soldered on. I did do some modifications to the switch box PCB. The red jumper wire provides an isolated ground for the LEDs. The two wires, orange and white in upper left get power from the USB connection to light the keys.
The other five wires are the switch common and signals for F9-F12. The unconnected blue wire is F12. I will hook it to something eventually.
I used a business card as an insulator between the two PCBs when I closed up the box. The corners of the keyboard controller PC were cut off to fit it in the box. Everything fit nicely.”
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Have a look at this laser light show! Guaranteed to get some attention…
Video after the jump.
“The main event of the GRL Rotterdam tour - ‘L.A.S.E.R TAG’ - 60mw geek graffiti madness.
Watch the video here on the Graffiti Research Lab website.
In the spirt of GRL’s and Eyebeam’s open source beliefs, we are posting the code and executable for the Laser Tag application online for you to download, dissect, reuse and hopefully improve. The code is C++ and compiled in a super old school Codewarrior IDE for windows but it is oepnGL based and written using openFrameworks which is a cross platform library for writing creative code. So it should be very straight forward to run in Visual Studio, DevC++ or even xcode on a mac.
In its simplest form the Laser Tag system is a camera and laptop setup, tracking a green laser point across the face of a building and generating […]
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Sapa responded to this article with an example of his creative PCB exposure system made from an old computer scanner.
“I have build UV LED lightbox using old flatbed scanner and 40 Kingbright L-7113UVC LEDs. These LEDs have narrow ray (+-10 degrees), it helps to get sharp shadow on photoresist even if photomask is not cling to the PCB very tight. LEDs mounted on carriage moved by stepper motor (scanner’s mechanics reused with my own controller based on PIC12F629), so 40 LEDs are enough to expose up to A4/Letter PCBs. LEDs mounted close to each other, so it provide well distributed light even with small deepness of box. Exposure adjusted by changing linear speed of the carriage.”
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Someone needs to make a diy version of this. I would totally drive my car using brain power. Or at least send it to this guy to add to his car.
“A monkey has a microchip in its brain which allows it to move a robotic arm as if it were its real arm.”
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Windows Vista is going to have to take a back seat to the amazing OS effects that Ubuntu 6.10 Linux with XGL Kiba-Dock can perform. Watch the video and be amazed. I think Microsoft might have to hire some of the open source developers of they want to keep up… Have a close look at the video, the creator must be a Diggnation fan!
Video after the jump.
Via: Slashdot Review
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This 3style Mouse is one cool looking mouse. Some creations seem to stagnate in one form, I think this is what has happened to the typical mouse. It is nice to see some new ideas being brought forward in the pointing technology arena.
Video after the jump.
“The 3style Mouse works on the desktop or a mouse pad just like a normal mouse, except that you can spin it and use it an any angle.
The small white arrow shaped button is the orientate button. Pressing this button while the arrow points forwards on your desktop sets that as the ‘up’ direction for pointer movement on screen no matter how the mouse is rotated. This only needs to be done once for any particular desk or working environment.
The mouse can be rotated with one finger like a video or audio ‘jog wheel’ or you can ‘flick’ it and it will spin freely. You […]
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Chris sent in his Radio Controlled Tank that is controlled by a SparkFun BlueSmirf module. Anyone interested in the plans to build your own?
“I made the chassis completely out of a sheet of brushed alu. It uses the Tamiya twin motor gearbox, a PCB of my own design, a BlueSmirf radio from SparkFun and has two servos to pan/tilt a video camera sitting on top. I wrote software so the whole thing can be controlled with a web interface that the video doesn’t demonstrate. If there is interest I may document but there is none as yet. ”
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Keith Wakeham, an engineering student replaced the backlight of a LCD monitor to operate using LED lighting.
“My very wonderful cousin gave me an old 17″ LCD made by the company GEM (I don’t know who they are) which was making a big racket with squealing. I knew it was the backlight so I said I’d take it knowing that to get it repaired by a pro would cost 30-60 for the inverter and a few hours of labour. Being A poor student that wasn’t going to happen but I knew it was a decent panel and wanted a second monitor for my laptop.
So I decided to see if I could drive the existing CCFL’s with a Computer UV CCFL kit and barring that would try LED’s (Which are salvaged from Princess Auto Head Lamps).”
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If you have a FON router this hack will give you access to the serial console.
“Out of the box the foneros wireless router has Telnet and SSH turned off. By accessing the buit in serial console you can turn SSH on and access various settings and reflash the firmware.”
Via: Gizmodo
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This is almost as funny as the USB dog! I hope that’s a full flashbag in your pocket.
“The size of the device changes depending on the amount of data it holds.
When the device is about to blow up you will see the familiar error message on your screen: “There is not enough free space”.
When switched off the flashbag remains pumped up, so you can estimate with the naked eye how much more pics, books and music albums can be transferred into it. ”
Via: Funniest Gadgets
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How much cooling do we need? This looks more automotive than a computer part…
“So you think that your computer may be “heating up” a bit too much? Doom 3 and Half Life 2 are renowned for intensely heating up your PC. Even if you don’t have those and you feel a bit too much heat roaming inside your box, you could get your worries deleted with this massive boy. How does two fans blowing over your motherboard at 120mm with a few dozen aluminum fins and six copper heat pipes sound to you? Sweet or what?! The Cooler Master’s GeminII is what I’m talking about. If you have some extra room in your case, you could actually stick half your motherboard sized cooler to keep your computer from overheating itself. Because this cooler is actually going to be placed on your motherboard, we’re not sure if it will snap your […]
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Want to be a DJ? You can go hands on with a modified Wiimote called the WiiJ. But when you get serious the Kuka industrial robotic DJ is the only way to go!
Videos and more pictures after the jump.
“The Juke Bot is a pair of Kuka industrial robots; each is surrounded by a set of platters (you know, vinyl LPs). The two bots act independently, deftly grasping an LP, and then bringing it to a platform with a phonograph needle. Delicately, the robot presses the LP against the needle and begins to rotate it forward and backward, creating a unique performance sound.”
Via: Robot Gossip and Technovelgy
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Transform your old scanner that is just collecting dust in the closet into a cool tech lamp.
“This instructable shows you how to make a desk lamp out of scrounged scanner parts and a few extras from Home Depot. I have set up a small solar array, controller and a storage battery. I wanted to make some low power lighting that I can use in my office that would not consume a lot of power. I had a bunch of scanner parts lying around and decided to put them to good use.”
Thanks Joe P.
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Once the full scale version of this car is made all it will need is a paint ball gun to keep the bad guys away!
“Build a security robot that can be controlled and viewed over the internet. The planned final version will be a kids 48″ electric car with a network camera attached.
1/4 Scale Trial Version:
I opted to try this out with a $20 RC car from Wal-Mart first, before I invest $200 in a kids car.
Parts:
Linksys WRT54G Router - Used as the wireless connection from Bestbuy
Comfiletech: Industrial Micro Controller/PLC “Cubloc”- http://www.comfiletech.com/index.asp
Maxport: Ethernet to RS232 converter with web server. From http://www.comfiletech.com/index.asp
Kowasaki RC car from Wal-Mart
Camera: None yet. I intend to use an Axis 206, when I can find one cheap on ebay”
Via: ZedoMax and Make
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