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We featured the RGB LED Vehicle Turn Signals that StarfireMX developed for his Ford Mustang. StarfireMX has now completed the Custom RGB LED Turn Signals and they look fantastic. Most of the features can’t be used on the road but this is a show car to it does have a chance to shine and show off the bling. The system used a number of Arduino based controllers and XBee wireless devices to allow remote control of the modes and color selections. Via: Hack a Day |
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The prize this week is a solar flashlight, if you want to use this as a flashlight you better charge it during the day and not keep it hidden in a drawer. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with “Name the Thing Contest” as the subject, and the message body consisting of:
The winner will be chosen at random from all of the correct entries. ———————————–———- Added October 23, 2011 The item to guess was inside of a breaker The winner is John G. (there were 239 entries) ————————————–———- Below is a picture of the prize.
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In the day where every store bought Halloween prop and most DIY props have some type of controller making things happen in the background it is neat to see a design like this. Youtube user badephemeris has built this Drum controlled Animatronic Halloween Head. Like a player piano or some of the old music boxes it uses a reads information from a rolling drum to make things happen. In this case the drum contains cardboard bumps which activate microswitches. These switches are then used to control an animation sequence on the head. In this case there is no need to pull out the laptop to change the sequence, just glue in some new pieces of cardboard and call it a day.
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If you want to scare the pants off your trick or treaters this Halloween you need some props that have some movement. Even better is something that reaches out and touches the victim. Youtube user Jason LeSueur Tatum is working in a spider prop that does just that, it uses a Parallax PIR sensor to detect the person, an Arduino then controls a solenoid which allows air to suck and spit water at the person as the spider makes some sounds. Watch the video above to see the prop in action and the video below to see how it works. You can see the rest of Jason’s Halloween projects on his Dury Lane Cemetery site.
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I am thinking that the housing could make for a very small surface mount project. Not sure if the solar cell would have enough power to energize a very low current circuit but I would think it should. This contest will run for one week (October 2 – 14, 2011). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above.
