MAKING A RAIL gun
[Rp181] has documented his entire rail gun build. He takes us through collecting the materials and assembling the system. It required 18 400V 3900uf capacitors to get the 5600 joules he wanted. It looks pretty impressive, though a video of it wreaking havoc on something might have been nice. We’ve seen rail guns before, from …
FILMING LIGHT REFLECTING OFF OBJECTS
With high-speed cameras you’re able to see bullets passing through objects, explosions in process, and other high-speed phenomena. Rarely, though, are you able to see what happens when light shines on an object without hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. A group of researchers at The university of British Columbia are doing just …
TEARDROP CAMPER COMBINES SIMPLICITY, STYLE, and function
They needed a place to stay on road trips and at music festivals. This teardrop camper certainly fits the bill. and it’s got a look that will make you proud to unfold yourself into the parking lot every morning. Starting from a flat frame the camper skeleton was built up using plywood sides and cross …
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THE LASER GUIDED wheelchair
using a scanning laser similar to those used in industrial safety systems, a new wheelchair developed by Sweden’s Luleå university of technology allows those who are visually impaired to drive it without assistance. A motorist is given haptic feedback as a navigation aid, reportedly similar to using a cane. Although something like this is good …
ADDING A DEBUGGER TO A TEENSY 3.5/3.6
The Teensy is a powerful ARM-based advancement board with tons of features that can do fun stuff with USB as well. like many dev boards, it utilizes a less powerful processor as an interface. Teensy designer [Paul Stoffregen] added a debug header to enable direct SWD JTAG gain access to to the primary chip, however the interface …