Scarf which actually reacts to one’s breath
Hilary Hayes, an industrial design student at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) in Toronto, Canada, has come up with a smart scarf that boasts a dynamic light pattern which depends on your breathing. A LilyPad temperature sensor will play nice with the LilyPad Arduino, while potential supply modules ensure that the scarf [...]
Twitwee Clock brings cuckoo clocks to version 2.0
Haroon Baig’s Twitwee Clock has been updated to keep up with the times, where it will deploy the cuckoo and show the tweet on a tiny LCD display whenever there is an incoming tweet – we assume that is made possible thanks to a combination of an Arduino and Chumby innards to get its game [...]
Texas Instruments graphing calculator gets touchscreen display
Something as staple as a TI-84 graphing calculator has now gotten a touchscreen display, thanks to the efforts of Owen. To achieve that, he had to write some z80 assembly cipher in order to use the linkport as a UART. that proof-of-concept video shows off where he draws on the screen, and that input is [...]
Meet&Playback glove
Our memory does fail us sometimes, and even more so as we get on in age. The Meet&Playback glove could help avoid such a situation since it will record the moment you meet a friend and shake hands or give a high five to reminisce about the good old days. All the meeting and action [...]
Self-balancing skateboard robot
XenonJon received a truckload of attention for his skateboard/Segway-style balancing platform which he created, making quite a splash at the Makerfaire in Newcastle. Since us humans are all about improving ourselves always, he has made up his mind to build a cheapest version possible without it being complicated at the same duration. While the build [...]
Wii Nunchuk Controlled Model Train
When Nintendo first released their nunchuk controller, we’re pretty certain that they never realized the potential of hacking that device. Fast forward a couple of years, and here we are with a model train that can be controlled through the Wii nunchuk itself – of course, that project gets some help from an Arduino microcontroller, [...]
ProjectExciteBike plays nice with Xbox 360
ProjectExciteBike is a mod that turns your exercise bike into a controller for the Xbox 360. that model will receive pedal input from the cranks of the exercise bike, where a ring of five hall effect sensors will be able to detect a passing magnet that is attached to the crank. Such sensor info is [...]