Archive for November, 2008

The Great PLL Induction Heater Driver

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Have you ever played with a manually tuned induction heater before? If you did, then you must know that how dull it could be…

Oh, for those that didn’t know what the induction heater is that is a key piece of equipment used in all forms of induction heating. Technically, an induction heater will operate at [...]

A Fancy and Creative Graduation Gown!

Friday, November 28th, 2008

If you’re currently attending a college or university, and the graduation ceremony will be held in several weeks or months from now, then have you done all the preparation for it yet?
Well, if you think that the graduation gown is a little bit dull and old-fashioned (Hopefully, it’s not the type of granny style ballroom [...]

The Environment Friendly Home-built Wind Turbine

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

The Global warming is becoming worse and worse everyday and we all have the responsibility to prevent it from getting worst! Many scientists have undergoing numerous types of research to experiment and invent the best eco-green energy generating methods.
According to the survey, the wind energy is one of the most eco-friendly and clean energy after [...]

Icon A5 Bring The Flying Experience into a Next New Level!

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

If you’re a vivid aircraft flier and you’re already bored with the recently small airplane or helicopter, then you must check this Icon A5…
This Icon A5 is simply a new breakthrough in the aviation industry, where it intended for all those novice fliers that have big ambition to try a more exhilarating flying experience. For [...]

The Easy Ways to Design a Better PCB!

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Are you always looking for a better printed circuit board (PCB), but you’re failed to do it in most of time? Well, don’t waste your time anymore for the searching; instead, you can use the precious time to design a better PCB here!

Before that, most of you have learned that PCB fab houses, such as [...]

When the Old-fashioned Sewing Machine Meet New Technology

Friday, November 21st, 2008

For those of you that born in 1970s or 1980s, you must be very familiar with the old type sewing machine, where your mom always used it to sew some beautiful clothes with it.
Most of the sewing machine in that moment was mostly using our feet to step on it and it does require a [...]

Great method of PCB reverse engineering by using a Photoshop

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Rriccibitti have sent us his latest work on reverse engineering of simple keypad circuit. The solution seems to be very simple but effective. What he used is a digital camera to take a picture of printed circuit board and a photo editing software where he could track PCB traces with different colors.

OK, for this one [...]

A Robot with rat brain

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Not entirely the Terminator yet, but the rat-brained robot urban by appraisal University is first to think for itself.

Software can’t control this pint sized robot, but by 300,000 living neurons generously donated by a rat. These Neurons are being educated how to steer the robot avoiding obstacles and stockade.

The Scientists from Analysis University took the [...]

The Black Silicon Will Be The Next Sophisticated Light Detectors!

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Do you know that silicon has the ability to absorb light and produce electric current easily? Due to its specialty, silicon has widely being used for light sensors and solar cells.

However, there are about half of the light from the sun, especially red lights and most of the infrared light can be easily passed through [...]

The New Breakthrough Solar Power Game-charger!

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Since the Solar power was been introduced decades ago, it has going through a rapid changes, especially in last few years when there are many experiments has been carried out on it.
According to the latest news from a group of researchers at Renssealaer Polytechnic Institute, they’ve discovered and demonstrated a new method for [...]