Posted July 9, 2008 by Chris

Nostalgia hits him when you look at this project. Now you can use all the old controllers with your Wii whether it is N64 or NES. The project write-up gives you all the hardware interfacing information you’ll need to put everything together.

Posted July 8, 2008 by Chris

Now for a look at some professional research, here is the robotic waterstrider. It uses properties of water tension to ‘stand on the water’ and even walk/run on it. There are quite a few professional papers included that have been written on this topic. Pretty cool stuff I’d say.

Posted July 7, 2008 by Chris

Electronic dice would seem to take the fun out of playing any board game, but what the heck right? We’ll make it anyway. This project uses an AVR microcontroller and leds to show you the number ‘rolled’. All software & hardware schematics are there waiting for you.

Posted July 6, 2008 by Chris

This project might seem a bit ridiculous, but it could be helpful to someone out there in the world. Here is a portable password generator built with an AVR development board. It’s a pretty quick and easy design so check it out.

Posted July 5, 2008 by Chris

Using some tools bought off ebay, you can create your very own wireless, web controlled security system! The write-up is hosted courtesy of instructables and it gives a page by page description of what the project is & how to build it.

Posted July 4, 2008 by Chris

Switch Debouncing is a problem that every hardware or software design runs into sooner or later. The problem is that humans can’t press a switch for 1/1,000,000th of a second. Read on for possible hardware & software solutions to this problem.

Posted July 3, 2008 by Chris

From the project write-up: “Minimig stands for Mini Amiga. Minimig is an FPGA-based re-implementation of the original Amiga 500 hardware.” It’s definitely worth a look for anyone interesting in how emulation of hardware & software on FPGA is done.

Posted July 2, 2008 by Chris

The standard NES controller has been made into mp3 players, walkmans & plenty of other random yet incognito devices. This time it has been made into a fully fledged computer mouse. Check out the project write-up to see how it’s made.

Posted July 1, 2008 by Chris

This project is as intuitive as it is easy to build. Need some disco lazers? No problem! Just strap them onto some old blown speakers and watch the light show (there’s a little more to it than that).

Posted June 1, 2008 by Chris

The mega-light ‘or simply the Oh my Gawd, my eyes! is a homemade led flashlight with a pvc body.’ It uses only one super bright luxeon V led. The project write-up explains what you need and how to build it.