Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
If you need a heat sink that extends outside of your computer, you might be a power user…
With heat pipes and real big heat sinks this sucker should keep your card cool even in the most intense of fire fights. Good thing that BZFlag isn’t all that graphic intensive or I’d have to get one of these.
Fanreshetoshinc that expands outside Sarmaltic and case fin
An important step towards my coveted “eyeball camera” that would show what the human eye sees without having to worry about exposure
-Greg
New Image Sensor Will Show What The Eyes See, And A Camera Cannot
This sounds great, the dynamic range of regular imaging chips is pretty bad. The Foveon chip from Sigma is better than most in this department but still can’t give you what the human eye can see.
If you had the CPU time and extra cameras you could layer many photos of the same scene that have been taken at different exposures to expand the dynamic range of a camera. It works pretty well, except you can get halos around bright objects due to the ‘bloom’ on the over exposed images. Years ago (like around 1989) I conceived an idea of of a pair of adaptive sun glasses. The lenses would be made from clear liquid crystals sheet. There would be a camera that would ‘survey’ the scene in front of the person wearing them and lower the brightness of the highlights (the glasses would know where the wearers eyes were vie IR sensors so the ‘dodging’ would be properly placed). One application would be for driving at night, you would not be blinded by on coming traffic, they headlights would be ‘dulled’ so your eyes would not be dazzled. I’d build a prototype of this but I just don’t have the cash right now. If any investors see this and can realize the obvious monster potential for such a product, please contact me. 🙂
-John
All the information you have ever wanted on those little micrto R/C cars. Go buy a few and mod them for other applications.
RC-CAM Projects: Micro R/C Car Hacks for Model Airplane Use
While in New York two weeks ago, my wife and I were in the Virgin music store in Times Sq. It was like 11:30 or something, we had poped in to get out of the cold for a while. As we were going down to the bottom floor I notice that some guy walking across the room has light on his belt buckle. Moving lights. I think, ‘Hey, pretty cool! ‘ and tell my wife to take a look at that guys belt buckle. So does and totaly fails to have that ‘wow technology!’ reaction that I had. I told her that I had to have one and what do you know, she didn’t beleive me! 🙂
Arrgh… Why can’t american toys be like these? Its a Stirling engine kit for about $100. What could be cooler than owning one of these gems?
????? ?????????? -Adult science Stirling engine
(NOTE: The above link has gone bad like a poorly stored wine. Check this link, it still works.)
This place has one of the largest selection of odd robot kits and supplies I have seen in quite a while. Thanks Steve!
Robots & Stuff