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If I weren’t all thumbs, I’d definitely give this one a try: Hardware hacker Limor Fried (Ladyada) of Adafruit Industries has released an open source retro Pong clock for two called the MONOCHRON.
She promised that "even if its your first soldering project, it shouldn’t take more than 2 or 3 hours to put together" but it probably doesn’t include time spent in the ER for soldering my fingers.
Links: MONOCHRON on Vimeo [video clip] | Project Page | Open source files at github – Thanks Phillip Torrone!
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security developed a ‘dazzler’ — a non-lethal weapon which uses flashing lights to distrupt a target’s equilibrium. A person effected by lights for long enough, will temporarily lose visual acuity, balance, and become nauseous. The government spend about $1 million on the project. Limor Fried, a MIT-educated engineer, decided that she could build one for a lot less money. She’s made her design schematics and source code available for free online. Below is a video of the results of her work.
Link via io9 | Fried’ s Bio | Image: AdaFruit Industries
