Being wet weather season, this ambient weather forecasting umbrella stand hack from Simone Marra illustrates just how easy it is to integrate a networked controller with your project. Utilizing a Grove Nest board, a WiFi networking module, a motion sensor, and some RGB LEDs, Marra has built a handy way of remembering to bring an umbrella on your way out the door.
Gregory “Mr. Vacuum Tube” Charvat breaks down an old school police radar.
Designer Kimio Kosaka soldered together an entire Arduino using the difficult freeform method.
Greg Holloway and Al Gray have been working on a proof of concept vehicle for a marine unmanned surface vessel that uses the Rasberry Pi called FishPi. The goal of the project is to “ultimately be able to cross the Atlantic unaided, and take scientific measurements while doing so.”
Instead of cricking your neck to drink from a water fountain, what if the fountain cricked its neck for you? Tropism Well is an interactive sculpture that senses when someone is near and bows to pour water into a glass.
Moritz Simon Geist has made a physical version of the famed TR-808 drum machine.
PublicLaboratory is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil spills, landfills, etc. They’ve done some fantastic work using the continuous shooting mode of consumer cameras, including converting them to near infrared. The problem is that there is […]
