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Children can be a great source of daily inspiration, especially when they are just beginning to speak in full sentences and starting to let their little personalities show. [Franklinstein] has …read more Continue reading Talking Milk Jug Says Glug-Glug-Glug
Children can be a great source of daily inspiration, especially when they are just beginning to speak in full sentences and starting to let their little personalities show. [Franklinstein] has …read more Continue reading Talking Milk Jug Says Glug-Glug-Glug
Do you love pinball, but can’t justify owning a full-size cabinet? Yeah, us either, and that’s why we’re so interested in [mircemk]’s great-looking DIY mini virtual pinball cabinet. Since [mircemk] …read more Continue reading Virtual Mini Pinball Cabinet Scores Big
If you have a loved one with Alzheimer’s, you know how difficult it can be to hold a conversation with them that doesn’t constantly go in circles. A good way to keep them focused is to use conversation pieces like pictures and familiar objects from their past. Something particularly poignant might uncork a flood of memories.
Adding familiar music to these images can be doubly beneficial. [Annelle] found this out when she showed her mother a musical children’s book that plays nursery rhymes. Her mother’s face lit up with joy when she heard those well-known tunes, and her reaction inspired …read more
Continue reading Intuitive Musical Books Accompany Alzheimer’s Patients’ Memories
If you haven’t heard of it, the Mooshimeter is a two channel multimeter that uses your smartphone as a display over Bluetooth 4.0. The ability to simultaneously monitor voltage and current is rather unique, and the fact that you aren’t physically tethered to the thing makes it ideal for use in hard to reach or even dangerous locations. The promotional material for the Mooshimeter shows users doing things like leaving the device inside the engine compartment of a car while they drive around and take readings about the vehicle’s electrical system.
All that sounds well and good, but at the …read more
Continue reading Putting the Mooshimeter to Sleep with a Bit of Mercury
Basic geocaching consists of following GPS coordinates to a location, then finding a container which is concealed somewhere nearby. Like any activity, people tend to add their own twists to keep things interesting. [Jangeox] recently posted a video of the OLED Snail 2.0 to show off his most recent work. (This is a refinement of an earlier version, which he describes in a blog post.)
[Jangeox] spices up geocaching by creating electronic waypoints, and the OLED Snail is one of these. Instead of GPS coordinates sending someone directly to a goal, a person instead finds a waypoint that reveals another …read more
Continue reading Snail is Actually Cleverly Strange Geocaching Waypoint