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What would you build with this? [genuine question]
by mcav 16y ago
What would you build with this? [genuine question]
- zokier 16y agoBlinking LED's! Blinking blue LED's!
- sliverstorm 16y agoAt $4, I'm going to order one first, and figure that out later.
- access_denied 16y agoSome sort of a dice / random generator for board games.
- Sirocco 16y agoI'd probably start with something like a DIY lucid dream mask. http://cre.ations.net/creation/face-mounted-lucid-dreaming-mask http://cre.ations.net/creation/face-mounted-lucid-dreaming-m...
- HeyLaughingBoy 16y agoHmmm: A complex LED flasher? Maybe one that instead of flashing, smoothly fades the LEDs in or out? Want to run that lawnmower more efficiently and cleanly? Be the first on your block with a mower that has an onboard engine management controller. Of course: robots, robots, robots. A Newton's laws demonstrator that times how long it takes from when you release it to when it hits the floor and uses that to calculate the initial height. Bonus points if it displays G force when it hits the ground so you can experiment with different types of padding. A temperature controller for your overclocked game machine? And that's just simple hobby stuff without even getting into real industrial uses! I love being a hardware hacker!
- 83457 16y agoAm I right that most uses of this would rely on plugging in sensors and other devices for it to monitor or control?
- HeyLaughingBoy 16y agoYes, it's just a computer, albeit a very specialized one. And like any computer, it's useless without I/O
- mkramlich 16y agoyes
- ramchip 16y agoI work in a physics lab. It would make a nice little controller to run some of the stuff we make. Eg.: for one of our microscopes it could display some parameters like the rotation speed or scan frequency (with eg. a PLL to measure frequency), automatize the start-up process, do a shutdown if temperature goes too high... right now this is all mostly manual.