Posted May 30, 2008 by Chris

This system has many different devices interfaced together all controlled by a central computer & program with a straight forward gui. The idea is to spice up this guys dorm room. He’s made a decent write-up with pictures and videos, take a look.

Posted May 9, 2008 by Chris

We’ve seen high-altitude balloon projects before, here’s another one! The project write-up has all the details of the computer system inside. Be sure to checkout the high-altitude aerial photos, awesome stuff.

Posted April 29, 2008 by Chris

The goal of the CMUcam project is to provide simple vision capabilities to small embedded systems in the form of an intelligent sensor. Since the project is open source, everything they’ve done is available for download and use in your own projects!

Posted March 31, 2008 by Chris

So what’s with the tomato? This project was made to make a camera flash when it ‘hears’ a loud noise. In this case, a bb gun shooting a tomato! Check out the project write-up for a full description on the modification.

Posted March 18, 2008 by Chris

Moving to a true pyro design, we have the Stunning Camera. With some slight modifications to a single-use camera a stun-camera is born. Whenever someone tries to take a picture it gives them a mild shock (The video demonstration is pretty good).

Posted March 5, 2008 by Chris

CMOS cameras have recently become inexpensive for hobbyists and clean interfaces have been developed for them. This project uses an ATmega16 microcontroller to capture and output data from the camera. The complete report write up and source code is available for download so take a look!

Posted February 6, 2008 by Chris

Webcams are cool but night vision webcams are cooler. This project write up shows us exactly how easy it is to mod a generic webcam for night vision capability.