The 1980s were a heyday for odd computer architectures; instead of the von Neumann design you’d discover in one of today’s desktop computers or the Harvard design of a microcontroller, a great deal of business experimented with odd parallel designs. While not […]
[Michael] built his own LED marquee using individual diodes. despite his choice to forego the 8×8 or 5×7 modules we typically see in these projects, his decision to spin a dedicated PCB saved him a lot of trouble during assembly. Sure, he […]
If you don’t have a 9-to-5 type of job you might find yourself constantly resetting your alarm clock as your calendar commitments change. [Lucas] finally got fed up with the nightly ritual and decided to build his own alarm clock which has […]
building a generator can be a fun and fairly easy project. getting a large DC motor however can in some cases be difficult. here is a writeup on how to make a generator from an old washing device drive. It looks like […]
You must all know the drill by now. new electronics hit the market and someone has to post pictures of it spread open bit by bit. The new shuffle is no different as iFixit shows us. There are some very great pictures […]
animal testing has always been a subject of much debate. On one hand, it allows us to figure out if something is probably safe for humans. On the other hand, it’s injuring and killing the very animals that help us escape that […]
part of the problem with having an alarm system is its reliance on land line telephone service. some of them are getting away from this practice, but there are still lots of legacy systems out there that require a check to be […]
For their senior ECE 4760 project, engineering students [Brian Harding and cat Jubinski] put together a pretty outstanding portable face recognition system called FaceAccess. The system depends on the eigenface method to help distinguish one user from another, a process that the […]
[Kacie Kinzer] put together an fascinating social experiment: might a robot navigate purely by the assist of strangers? She built an affordable Tweenbot robot that would drive in a directly line. A flag was connected to the top with a plea for […]
[Ben Eater] posted some videos of an 8-bit computer with no CPU chip that he built completely on a breadboard a few years ago. After being asked for schematics, he finally admitted that he didn’t have any. So, instead, he made a […]