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Simple DIY Party PhotoBooth!

“Welcome back!Me and my future wife is close to our wedding now and we decided to save some money and make out own PhotoBooth instead of renting one. We had more or less all the equipment for the system …

Skate-o-Meter

“I’m a student at Howest Kortrijk. To show our skills to the lectors we needed to build a project, I did chose to create a odometer and speedometer for my skateboard with an RFID scanner. In this instructable I …

‘Smart’ Machine Components Alert Users to Damage and Wear

“Scientists at the United Technologies Research Center and UConn are using advanced additive manufacturing technology to create ‘smart’ machine components that alert users when they are damaged or worn. The researchers also applied a variation of the technology to create …

Space Station Experiment Reaches Ultracold Milestone

“The International Space Station is officially home to the coolest experiment in space. NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) was installed in the station’s U.S. science lab in late May and is now producing clouds of ultracold atoms …

Talking Musical NeoPixel Clock with Infrared, BLE and Touch Controls

“When Adafruit first introduced the 60 element Neo-Pixel ring in March 2004, the obvious choice for a project was to build a clock. By selectively lighting certain pixels around the ring you can depict analog time in a digital manner …

The Astronomy Clock

“Shortly after the first mechanical clocks were invented in the 14th century, inventors started looking for ways to represent the motion of the heavens. Thus, the astronomy clock was created. Perhaps the best known astronomy clock was created in Prague …

Project  TLID Clock

TLID Clock

“TLID stands for “time left in day”. The idea for this project came from a frustration with my sleep schedule in college. I would work late into the night and wake up at 10, 11, and even 2 the next …

Trapping light that doesn’t bounce off track for faster electronics

“Replacing traditional computer chip components with light-based counterparts will eventually make electronic devices faster due to the wide bandwidth of light. A new protective metamaterial “cladding” prevents light from leaking out of the very curvy pathways it would travel in …

Two-faced edge makes nanotubes obey

“Rice theorists find mechanism behind nearly pure nanotubes from the unusualcatalyst Growing a batch of carbon nanotubes that are all the same may not be as simple as researchers had hoped, according to Rice University scientists. Rice materials theorist Boris …

Universal Battery Charge Indicator 3.7v-24v

“As we all deal with various potential battery e.g 3.7v li-po li-ion battery, 6v 9v, 12v, 24v lead acid battery. It can be charged using its respected chargers but if we want to monitor charge status then we …