Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
I will be building one of these myself shortly. I used to have a nice 25 VDC bench top power supply but a leaky water pipe sent it to electronics heaven. The units looks like to needs a load to stay on, that would normaly be the mother board of a PC but in my casse I think I’ll use a 12V neon case light. Should be hard to forget that I left it on with it glowing like a spent fuel storage pool.
[via MAKE]
Nothing is sweeter than a camera that has been subverted to pass infrared light. I have a Nikon 950 that is just waiting for me to do this…
[via MAKE]
I remember wanting one of these so bad when they came out, 32 bit CPU, QWERTY keyboard, huge LCD screen, graphing and real time 3D rotation… Man, these were the hottest things out there. Now days I think you can get all that and more in a PDA but they don’t look nearly as cool.
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Well, I know if I had a huge home and more money than I knew what to do with I’d have a home theater like this. I’d have a bigger screen though, I’d also want one of those 3-chip DLP projectors. You need real good black levels and absolutely no rainbow distortion if your going to blow, er, I mean ‘invest’ money into a home theater like this. Nothing says ‘I have it where it counts’ than owning a crew served video projector!
[via Digg]
I spotted this on MAKE today, looks pretty cool. Sadly, it’s not part of some giant Victorian inspired wooden robot thats driven by steam and springs that will clamber across the lowlands in search of villages to trounce. It’s part of an assignment to build a wooden toy that was inspired by the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
[via MAKE]
Traditionally, an air plane uses control surfaces like flaps to translate from one position and orientation to another in space (air). In England, an aircraft is being developed that will do away with movable surfaces and replace them with vectored thrust. Than means that in place of a flap there will be a vent that will blow air out of the trailing edge of the win. The result will be a plane with far fewer moving parts, lower cost, and an over all higher reliability.