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A real, laser-based 3D display
Posted: November 20th, 2011, 2:30pm MST by Brian Benchoff
3D display technology is fairly limited. Most 3D displays out there rely on either prisms refracting light from a normal flat-panel display, or shooting lasers into some sort of space-filling device. A few researchers in Japan went with a more unconventional method of making a 3D display that actually lives up to the promises of [...]
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An exercise in servo voice control with Android
Posted: November 20th, 2011, 1:30pm MST by Mike Nathan
[Shazin] had some free time on his hands, so he settled in to do something he had been meaning to for a while – learn Android programming. He went an indirect route, and ended up using the Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A), which gave him a head start on the process. Sitting in between the [...]
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This giant hand made LED matrix must be ours!
Posted: November 20th, 2011, 12:30pm MST by Mike Nathan
[Martin] wrote in to share a project his company has been working on for some time, a gigantic 1470 pixel LED wall. The group provides lighting for clubs, parties, etc, and their hand-built LED matrix is always certain to be the hit of the show. The amazing matrix was designed from the ground up and [...]
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Gridrunner: a custom part for measuring in Eagle CAD
Posted: November 20th, 2011, 11:01am MST by Mike Szczys
[Koogar] came up with a useful tool for checking the measurements of your layouts in Eagle CAD. He calls it the Gridrunner; a custom part that adds a 200mm ruler to your design. Tick marks are in 1/10th of a millimeter increments for great accuracy when used with the zoom feature of Eagle. Once you’ve [...]
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Experimenting with bridge rectifers for AC to DC power conversion
Posted: November 20th, 2011, 9:01am MST by Mike Szczys
The folks over at Toymaker Television have put together another episode. This time they’re looking at bridge rectifiers and how they’re used in AC to DC converters. This is a simple concept which is worth taking the time to study for those unfamiliar with it. Since Alternating Current is made up of cycles of positive [...]