Because every engineer loves a good Nixie tube thermometer. If you want to know the temperature, normal digital thermometers, or increasingly the Internet, are usually good enough. Visually though, it’s hard to beat the warm glow and retro look of a Nixie tube. What better way to display this than with a three-digit tube display […]
Instamic wants to do for microphones what the GoPro did for cameras. Many analog years ago, digital recorded audio won the popularity contest. Nowadays, whether it’s from your mobile phone, infotainment system or personal audio device, every sound you hear is from digitally encoded bits. Digital audio has eliminated all of the analog audio’s distortions and noise-related problems. Quite […]
Inspired by Derek Low’s Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm, one undergrad at Rice University decided to add some smarts to his room as well. During his freshman year at UC Berkeley, which as you could tell by the old tunes of Justin Bieber tunes in the video below dates back to 2012, Derek Low set out to create the most ridiculously […]
This affordable, easy-to-assemble arm will let you learn a thing or two about robotics. Whether you’re a novice Maker or a well-seasoned engineer, Maximo is a new five-axis robotic arm perfect for your desktop. The brainchild of Montreal-based startup InnoTechnix, Maximo boasts a laser-cut acrylic body and a wide range of applications. The arm itself is driven by an Arduino board and servo […]
Tittle Light is the ultimate home lighting décor. As we make the move towards smarter homes, why not add a decorative, element to it? Tittle Light is a connected, color-changing LED lamp that can transform your home environment with custom 3D light animations. Made up of 512 LED lights, Tittle is an interactive lamp that […]
OneRing monitors motor distortions and generates patient reports. After school activities for the average high school student typically entails sports practices, music lessons and homework; but creating a smart medical device for a disease that affects 10 million people seems unlikely. That’s not the case for Cupertino High School sophomore Utkarsh Tandon. Tandon is the […]
This system will automatically blast loud music whenever your neighbors are too loud. Unfortunately, you don’t get to choose your neighbors. However, what can choose is how you put up with them. Take YouTuber “Jamil,” for example, who decided to take a more passive-aggressive (and rather genius) approach for dealing with the obnoxious folks next door. As you can see in the video below, […]
Harder, better, faster, brighter! If there is one musical group that has inspired more electronics projects than any other, Daft Punk has to be it. Besides just producing awesome electronic tunes, the helmets that they wear are filled with blinking lights. Adafruit’s latest helmet build, which is the brainchild of the Ruiz brothers, features a replica […]
Nascent Objects is a modular electronics platform that lets you piece together new devices like LEGO. The historic drought impacting much of the west coast has led government officials to impose several water restrictions in recent months. Cognizant of this, Nascent Objects has teamed with Shock Top and design firm Ammunition to develop a new, modular water conservation device dubbed Droppler. Debuted at CES and now live on Indiegogo, the monitor […]
Get the party started with this ATtiny45-based LED music box. If you’d like to measure sound for an interactive display, Ardumotive has you covered with a tutorial about how to “make your own music rhythm LED lighting effect box” with an ATtiny45. One caveat to this method is that, according to the article, “It’s not the correct way to […]
