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March 22, 2007

Self-Immolating Mechanism

This mechanism uses a Peaucellier-Lipkin linkage to light a match and, well - destroy itself.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaucellier-Lipkin_linkage

March 01, 2007

Pong Controller

An accelerometer is mounted at the top of the helmet and returns tilt data to an Arduino microcontroller. The helmet’s client software interfaces with Tom Igoe’s pong server via a XPort Ethernet port. Yay pong.