like many pet owners, [Pete] was curious about his bit furry friend’s habits while he was gone. He decided to develop an RFID tracking system to screen their positions. This data would then be offered on the web. An Arduino handles the communication of the data, both to twitter as well as his personal feline […]
We have been getting tons of emails lately recommending we take a look at various Kickstarter projects. We used to ignore them since they all boil down to a request for project funding, but since there are so many cool projects out there, we figured we might as well share a couple. some of these […]
We reported last week that D-Link was adding captchas to their routers to avoid automated login by malware. Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t work all time. The team from SourceSec grabbed the new firmware and began poking at it. They found that certain pages don’t require the authentication to be passed for access. one of these is […]
Festo has released a video showing the workings of their BionicCobot, a pneumatic robot arm established for loaning a assisting hand to humans at a workstation. considering that it works intimately with humans, it has to be safe, creating no harmful movements, as well as reacting when encountering an challenge such as an arm consisting […]
This is a proof of idea magnetic stripe card emulator. Adron embedded a thin strip of metal into track 2 of the magnetic stripe. The ends of that strip are wrapped with thin copper cable to produce a solenoid. The solenoid is driven by a pic microprocessor as well as some transistors to boost the […]
We don’t understand if our function from a couple of days provided [Adrian] a begin the pants, or if he was just on target to surface is writeup this week, however he’s published about version 2 of his laser auto focus help project. The original idea was to utilize an unfocused laser tip dot to provide […]
I think we can all agree that in some cases projects are a bit of a stretch. We rack our brains for something interesting and distinct to bring to the table and end up stretching for that special unusual twist trick or technique that will garner that special kind of admiration from our peers. in […]
The team at leaf Labs just released a new library to demonstrate the VGA capabilities of their Maple dev board. Although it’s only a 16 by 18 pixel image, it shows a lot of development over past video implementations on the Maple. The Maple is a terrific little Ardunio-compatible board with a strangely familiar IDE. […]
This is one of the easiest CNC develops we’ve seen however it still functions rather well. It’s a clone of the EggBot, however is aimed at printing on spherical Ping Pong spheres rather than elongate eggs. [Chad] phone calls it the Spherebot, however you should be cautious not to confuse it with the morphing ball […]