3style Mouse by Alan Parekh @ 11:29 am. Filed under Computer Hacks
This 3style Mouse is one cool looking mouse. Some creations seem to stagnate in one form, I think this is what has happened to the typical mouse. It is nice to see some new ideas being brought forward in the pointing technology arena. Video after the jump. "The 3style Mouse works on the desktop or a mouse pad just like a normal mouse, except that you can spin it and use it an any angle. The small white arrow shaped button is the orientate button. Pressing this button while the arrow points forwards on your desktop sets that as the 'up' direction for pointer movement on screen no matter how the mouse is rotated. This only needs to be done once for any particular desk or working environment. The mouse can be rotated with one finger like a video or audio 'jog wheel' or you can 'flick' it and it will spin freely. You can continuously rotate the mouse this way, unlike with a scroll wheel. Rotating the mouse needs only a very light touch. Because the mouse can be used at any angle you can also use the buttons at any angle. There is one 'push' button which can be operated from any part of the top of the mouse, and a series of 'squeeze' buttons which also work from any angle to give a 'right click'." Thanks Laurence C. |
DIY Laser Beam Analyzer by Alan Parekh @ 8:21 am. Filed under Electronic Hacks, DIY Hacks, Complex Hacks, Insane Equipment
You will have to put aside 5 or 6 hours to understand this project! Good thing is that it comes with a 115 page manual! I would bet that David is the first to publish plans for a DIY Laser Beam Analyzer. "The laser beam spot is the tool in laser welding cutting. Industrial lasers are really great, but there's a huge problem when it comes to knowing the state of your tool. I mean, in a normal milling machine the mill bit can visually be examined to see if a part of the edge is chipped off. But how does your beam spot look? How is your beam quality? You might have pretty good idea of how good the beam quality is but the truth is: You don't know. You can't just look at the laser beam an tell. First of all trying to look at a laser beam without the right safety measures could seriously harm you. Secondly, if you've got these measures in place, theres nothing to see. Here's a guide on how you can build yourself a laser beam analyzer! Get going! It's great fun!" |
LED Matrix Displays Mike Kash, my physics professor at Lake Forest College, once said that he liked matrices "so much that I sleep on one." The two 5x7 LED matrix displays shown here have pointy plastic edges and are probably not very comfortable to sleep on. These displays are both alike in character, with the same potential to display thirty five beautiful and well-resolved pixels of bitmappy goodness. That's just the thing for the new video standard that I'm proposing: Widescreen Ultra Low Defintion, or WULD for short. (HDTV is for wimps. 128-bit video may spark a format war with WULD, but widescreen it is not.) It is fun to contrast the remarkably different sizes of these two displays. The one on the left is from a large readerboard, and is four inches tall with 10 mm green LEDs. The dots are almost as big as the entire miniature version, shown on the right with its 3 mm red LEDs. More common than either of these sizes are the two-inch 5x7 displays that populate the readerboards sold at office supply stores.
Along the lines of the expandable seating I blogged earlier:
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