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Ornithopter – The Electric Bat

Ornithopter – The Electric Bat

Graham writes – “The project began after considering building a really small machine much like Matt Keennon’s Microbat and deciding a better bet might be to use an existing rubber design as a basis for a larger model to start with. It seems great minds think a like as you will see in this thread […]

Alarm clock case mod

Alarm clock case mod

Carl sent in his alarm clock case mod, turned out pretty nice! – I did this neat little Digital Clock-Radio casemod as an excuse to play with lexan and update my bathroom’s decor a bit. It was a lot of fun and I think it turned out pretty well. It’s nice to know you can […]

DIY LED Spinning globe

DIY LED Spinning globe

Nick writes – “Here are brief details of a project I completed using a PIC 16F73 Micro-controller. I’d seen persistence of vision clocks, like these from Bob Blick and Daryl Bender, on the Internet and wanted to take things a step further. I wanted to make a display which displayed a clock and a spinning […]

HOW TO – Homemade RFID reader

HOW TO – Homemade RFID reader

Doug writes – “For our final project, we designed and built (and exhaustively tested) an RFID-based proximity security system for use with Cornell Identification cards, which have been RFID-embedded since fall of 2003. The idea for this project was sort of spawned from our general interest in RFID technologies and the near-simultaneous occurance of Lab […]