If you love taking pictures you either have or need to purchase a Intervalometer, if you love DIY electronics you should look into building your own. Nice thing is there is a great new Arduino based DIY Intervalometer to get you started.

 ”After some thinking, I convinced myself that I needed a navigating menu and at least these 4 different operating modes:

1. input mode: set the various options
2. confirmation mode: sum up the settings and wait confirmation
3. running mode: change the output resistance according to the settings (to focus/shoot) and display the progression (number of pictures taken so far, time to next picture)
4. end mode: inform it is finished, display the total number of picture taken

The input mode is by far the trickiest one and the one that requires most coding, the others are fairly trivial since they require small or none user interaction being mostly informative. In fact, during input mode, Intervallino has to display the correct information depending on where we are in the menu, wait for the button inputs and respond to them accordingly.”

Glen Johnson built this Frankenkindle to help out his sister who has cerebral palsy. It uses some controls that were scavenged from a different device which has big easy to press buttons. Buttons on the added keypad have been made to activate macros that perform features on the Kindle. It is a bit slower than the normal Kindle controls but since this is a book reader and not a video gave player speed is not the most important thing.

For schematic and code for the project you can find it here (PDF).

 Look on this crazy digital Foosball Table connected over Internet. You can do lot of amazing things, once you’ll be able to get this tble online. There are number of salient features of it like:

- The Blueprint

- The Mobile WebApp

- The Agency Foosball league

You’ll require a very few components to build your own Foosball Table like – Arduino Uno, WiFly Shield, Stackable Header Kit and Zeitschalter mit IR-Lichtschranken. You can collect all the design steps of this interesting project here.                                                             

 Checkout for more details at Github and Wiki and watch this documentary below:

You might remember the Top 10 WALL-E Hacks post that we made back in 2009? Well the DIY WALL-E builders are still hard at work. Have a look at the video above showing the tracks that Michael from the WALL-E Builders group is working on.

UPDATE (January 6, 2012): Thanks to Michael for sending in some of the build pictures.

Adafruit reported a cool gadget so called “Rudolph“, an email Reading Reindeer that lets you know when you’ve got a new email and tells you who sent it! Basically it uses Propeller Platform USB to log into the email server, trigger animations, and generate the speech. The Internet connection is handled separately by E-Net module.

All the software codes required to build this project can be downloaded from Gadgetgangster.  Not only this, there is a good references available that will give you an idea of building and customizing this project.  

Here’s a demo video that will give you some basic idea about this build:

Cibomahto member mahto modified the Chumby web browser to a full-screen kiosk for his 8″ Insignia Infocast branded machine. You can probably make it to work with the other Chumbys too without learning flash or compiling anything.

The steps required to make it working are :

- At first grab the file here,

- unzip the contents into a USB stick or SD card,

- place the card in your Insignia, and reboot.

- you can change the URL that it loads by modifying the file debugchumby 

The complete source code for this browser can be downloaded here.

Instructables member Fatratmatt has posted in his blog an amazing concept of building a Steampunk analog clock. The clock not only displays the time, month, date and day of the week but it is even equipped with an option of playing  a video of the correct moon phase for the current date and time. You can create your own audio effects with the selectable volume controls when the moon phase video is being played. The dials are electroluminescent and are activated and dimmed by touch.

Fatratmatt has provided complete list of items, design steps and necessary software codes in his post here. To get an idea about this crazy project, watch this video below.