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Automatic fish feeder
Posted: May 20th, 2010, 2:16pm MDT by Mike Szczys
This automatic fish feeder didn’t take long to put together and it allows you to adjust how much food is dispensed. [Gagandeep Singh] built it around an Atmel AT89C2051 microcontroller. Like many of the automated feeding systems we see, this uses a character display and a few buttons for the user interface. We’re always curious [...]
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Urine a candidate for energy independence
Posted: May 20th, 2010, 1:15pm MDT by Mike Szczys
We thought we were supposed to have fusion-power for our DeLorean by now but it perhaps urine-power is just around the corner instead. [Gerardine Botte] has been working on creating hydrogen from urine, the world’s most abundant waste product. The voltage needed to break apart the urea atoms is less than half that of water, [...]
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Personal pencil production plant
Posted: May 20th, 2010, 9:07am MDT by Mike Szczys
[Robb Godshaw] put together a pencil production line for home use. The whimsical assembly line starts with a graphite rod and extrudes clay polymer around it. From there it’s down a conveyor belt to get stamped and then into the oven made from a hacked toaster. The final step is to cut out a plug [...]
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Keyboard input for PlayStation
Posted: May 20th, 2010, 7:47am MDT by Jakob Griffith
Anyone who has tried their hand at RPG Maker 1 (or any text input with a controller) knows how difficult it can be typing long paragraphs into the console. [Thutmose] is here to save the day with Kupid 1.0 (2.0 in production). A PICAXE takes ps/2 keyboard input and converts it to a series of [...]