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HALO – Haptic Feedback System for Blind/Visually Impaired
Complete Build Instructions: Please visit www.instructables.com for the complete build instructions and story. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfXs5rhwCfE Highlights/Features – Approximate 4 feet of range – Variable haptic sensation (frequency and intensity of vibrations increase as range decreases) – Just over 180 degree field of view from 5 Parallax Ping))) Ultrasonic Rangefinders Background I have recently been introduced to some new…
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Miniature Wargaming Series- 4 Painting the Marines
Learning to paint Rebelminis regular (marines) miniatures for Ambush Alley game.
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Miniature Wargaming Series- 3 Painting the Insurgents
Welcome to the third installment of our wargaming series (focusing on Ambush Alley). Just a note before I begin about 15mm miniatures. There are tons of people out there who can make stunning, photo-realistic, perfect minis even at 15mm. 28mm minis can show a lot of detail and painting errors on the table top. However,…
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Miniature Wargaming Series- 2 Making Terrain
This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to construct buildings for a middle-eastern town for 15mm modern wargaming.
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Miniature Wargaming Series- 1 Building the Board
This will be a slight divergence from technologies vs. anti-technology type projects. I have been an avid player of games for a long time. Perhaps not everyone is aware, but there has been an renaissance of boardgames while the American boardgame market has been fairly dominated by “old favorites” like Monopoly, Stratego, Risk, and others.…
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Motion Feedback MP3 Trigger
I posted over at Instructables a project that uses the Parallax PIR Motion Sensor (yes, it IS that same I used in the Halloween Hack, ye of the clan Observant) to encourage me to be working out. If I am, then I am rewarded with some tunes to keep moving along. However, if I am…
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Making Acorn Flour and Muffins
I am trying to recall the exact moment when I set my mind to making food from acorns. It could have been any of the following moments: a) When reading “When Technology Fails” I wanted to take a stab at more self-sufficiencyb) When I listened to “Everybody Dance Now” I was inspired by “I’m just…
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Half Hour Halloween Hack
Halloween came out of nowhere this year for me. I have not had the time to do much of anything having just moved into a new house, so I took it upon myself to quickly whip up something to get into the Halloween mood. I was at a local store and saw these little foam…
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Solar-Powered Temperature Sensor
DIY Project on using XBee and solar panel to have an Arduino report wirelessly the temperature outside to an XBee receiver. The receiver is hooked up to an ioBridge so the data is web-accessible.
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This Just In: The World Loves Beer
Serv O’Beer has found some interest online through being covered at Instructables, Engadget, Gizmodo, Make, and others. Of particular interest is its inclusion in the How 2.0 section of Popular Science April 2009 edition, and PopSci Online. Yeah, the 100,000 YouTube views are eyebrow-raising as well. We really appreciate all of the comments and suggestions,…