If you want to get the most out of you motorcycle, or car, you really need to have a baseline measurement of your ride. A dyno is something that a high performance shop may have, or you can usually find them at a rally like Sturgis or Daytona. I have never seen one in a […]
This could be a great starting point for a motion control system or a DIY simulator. The movement of the servos is very smooth, and they can all be controlled simultaneously and independently. The website has all the code needed for the build and a nice video of it in action. This tutorial will describe […]
Show your cat just how much you love them with this project. I know a lot of cats like to drink from the faucet. The problem is getting them to turn the water off when they are done! [Thanks struzik] Somehow our cats learned to drink from the faucet. We’d turn the water on for […]
This one is for Dale since the last phone conference call we had he was feeding his chickens… Solar powered poultry lighting – put together a solar system to power poultry lighting – increase winter egg production from REUK.co.uk. If we received 1p every time someone emailed us about solar powered poultry lighting we would […]
Patrick shares results from his mammalian video exposé using motion activated video recording – Our 4-year old son left a piece of cheese out to see if there would be bite marks in the morning. Then we got more ambitious about tracking our visitors… 6:10am: this squirrel was so calm that 5 minutes of video […]
You’ve read about it – now you too can follow your own pet vegetation on twitter! – The Botanicalls Twitter kit includes all the hardware you need to create a networked communication system for your plant. A moisture sensor placed into the soil will send information to simple electronic detection circuitry you solder together yourself. […]
This project is for those of you that want to explore communications via LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites. You can manually point your antenna, but a micro-controller makes it a whole lot easier. The basis for operation is fairly straightforward. A tracking program (WiSP, Nova for Windows, The Station Program, and DK1TB’s SatPC32 program are […]
