What is it about the Tricordeer that has inveigled its way so well into the public consciousness? We’ve covered the “Star Trek device” a couple of times before on Gadget Master (see Design a Tricorder, win $10 million and Star Trek gizmos, The Collection), but here it comes again…
8 bit Umbrella from E.D.K. on Vimeo.
Here’s a good one, involving an Arduino board.An umbrella that sings in the rain has been demonstrated by Alice Zappe and Julia Lager of Berlin. They taped piezoelectric sensors to the underside of an umbrella and connected them to…
This is a nice one to share with Gadget Masters, from our sister site New Scientist – DIY circuit turns your alphabet soup into a keyboard Jacob Aron writes about some wizardry from MIT: Ever wanted to move Pac-Man using pencil drawings, make music with bananas or type an email…
Here’s a nice example of what you can do with the IOIO Android-friendly breakout board that we’ve featured previously. It’s a DIY Android Breathalyser. It’s still in prototype form, but is shown working in cable-less form, courtesy of Bluetooth. Note you would need a…
Out of awful events sometimes the better side of human nature emerges… We previously highlighted – see How to build your own Geiger Counter – the work of some engineers at Libelium, a wireless sensor network company, to help the people of Japan, around Fukushima, determine levels of radiation for themselves. Well…
This gadget may not yet be weatherproof enough for your daily commute in the UK, but for a pop to the shops for icecream on a sunny afternoon the Focus Designs self balancing unicycle, SBU V2.0 is a real treat. The company reports that it’s increasing production “to…
‘Home is where the gadgets’ are is an observation we’ve made before, but how about this one to extend the concept – the Singing House by the New Orleans-based musician/inventor Quintron. Check out the video below. It’s a bit of fun where an analogue “drone synthesizer” is…
Here’s one that will catch the attention of Trekkies amongst us – there’s a $10 million prize up for grabs for whoever can meet the Tricorder challenge. Qualcomm and the X PRIZE Foundation – a “nonprofit organization solving the world’s Grand Challenges of our time” – have the design challenge…