You can buy large cold-brew towers, but they’re very expensive, aimed at coffee shops. Instead you can make your own automated tower that uses arduino.
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Use some LEDs to upgrade a $10 Ikea side table into a centerpiece that bumps and jives to the beat of your tunes. Get your freq on!
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[Dann Albright] writes about some small experiments he’s done in home security.
He starts with the simplest. Which is to purchase an off the shelf web camera, and hook it up to software built to do the task. The first software he uses is the free, iSpy open source software. This adds basic features like motion detection, time stamping, logging, and an interface. He also explores other commercial options.
Next he delves a bit deeper. He starts by making a simple motion detector. When the Arduino detects motion using a PIR sensor it gets a computer to text an alert. After the tutorial begins to veer a little and he adds his WiFi light bulbs to the mix. Now he can send an email and change the color of the lights.
We suppose, that from a security standpoint. It would really freak a burglar out if all the lights turned red when they walked into a room. Either way, there’s definitely a fun weekend project in playing around with all these systems.
A hidden sarcophagus, digital dice, mummy voice over, and desert sound effects. This board game looks like it's fun and educational.
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Robotics is a booming field that gets everyone excited, but when the talk comes to real life applications the response is a bit more tepid. Pundits tend to point to the “3 D’s”—dangerous, dirty and dull—but they often overlook a market with short term payoff: Entertainment. We are beginning to see some […]
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Hello, Operator! is the gaming experience that puts you in the role of an 1920's phone operator. The controller is a vintage switchboard.
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Kansas City stages a 10-mile opening day pitch relay using a baseball that you can text message.
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Turn an old headlamp into a power assist for your eyebrows. Use an infrared remote control to raise, lower, waggle, and adjust.
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Need a quick mood lift when you're missing your pet? This treat dispensing camera rig will text you a photo of your pet.
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Super Ventilagon is the fan based gaming console that employs the Hall effect to play the super addictive Super Hexagon game.
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