A few weeks ago, [Debarghya Das] had two good friends eagerly awaiting the results of their High institution exit exams, the ISC national examination, taken by 65,000 12th graders in India. This examination is vitally important for every student’s future; a few points determines which university will accept you as well as which will reject…
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Over the past few years, we’ve seen [Michael]’s adventures in electronics and lucid dreaming. With commercial EEG hardware, [Michael] is able to communicate from inside his dreams with Morse code and record his rhythmic blinking for data analysis when he wakes up. His project is called Lucid Scribe, and now it’s open to just about everyone…
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If you don’t online under a rock (though you may want to now) you most likely saw yesterday’s post from Spiegel that exposed the NSA has its own catalog for spy gadgets. Today they released an interactive graphic with the catalog’s contents, as well as even if you’re not a routine visitor of Hacking & Philosophy,…
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The age of ARM microcontrollers for the electronics hobbyist is upon us, and fortunately there are a few breadboard-friendly microcontrollers available in a DIP package. one of these chips is NXP’s LPC810M021FN8 – a tiny little 8-pin DIP with 4 kB of Flash, 1 kB of SRAM, and has a clock fast enough for some really…
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Are you great at mixing drinks? We believe this Barbot may provide you a run for your money! Not only does this Barbot have space for 5 different liquors, however you can integrate them any type of method you want with an incredibly slick web interface that you can inspect out for yourself. During preliminary…
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inspect out this amazing Ambilight clone for a computer screen which [Brafilus] has been working on for a few years. It’s really the third revision as well as enjoying the demo video below left our jaws agape. Details are only offered as comments on the YouTube page. however he’s provided us just sufficient to be…
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This section of the MakerFaire practically is worthy of an entire event of its own. I understand I would happily go to a monthly match of the power racing series in my house town. To compete, you should have a modded Power Wheel. Yes, those electric youngsters cars that go truly slowly across your lawn,…
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The lion’s share of soil moisture monitors we see are meant as add-ons for a microcontroller. So we’re happy that [Miceuz] tipped us off about this soil moisture alarm he built with analog parts. It’s really not hard to take the concept and build it in the analog world. That’s because you’re just measuring a resistance…
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major research using not-so-serious equipment? We don’t know about that. What’s wrong with using LEGO as a research platform for a Maglev? This team has been doing so for quite some time and with terrific results. A Maglev is a car based on the principles of magnetic levitation. similar poles of magnets repel each other and…
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[Paul Breed] participated in this year’s Autonomous cars contest put on by SparkFun Electronics. as with a lot of projects, the deadline really snuck up on him and he ended up cramming a bunch of code development into the waning days before the competition. His experiences are shared in this recent blog post. One big…
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