Students

Electronic Hogu Measures Just How Hard Your Foe Can Beat You Up

The final project of a team from Cornell University, this electronic hogu, modelled above by a lantern-jawed mannequin called Bob, uses piezoelectric sensors and a microcontroller to measure the kicks and punches between contestants in a Tae Kwan Do bout. Piezoelectric sensors and a microcontroller are implanted in the transmitter side, while the receiver side has wireless receiver circuitry, another microcontroller, and a monitor to display the score. As that great black belt of martial arts would say, "Haiiiii-YAAAAAAA!" Yes, I'm talking Miss Piggy. [Cornell via GEARFUSE and HacknMod]

7:15 AM on Mon May 12 2008
By Addy Dugdale
1,041 views, 9 comments

Latest by Accelerata: @vertigo: it usually doesn't register a score in that case, but to be fair, you're also just abusing the rules by not actually blocking. if your "block" doesn't actually reduce the amount of force transmitted to your body, you wasn't more »

dishwasher

Concept Dishwasher Looks Nice, May Turn Your Kitchen into a Rainforest

Spring segueing into summer means degree shows, when students show off their, frankly, outtahere-lunatic creations. So, without further ado, let's go to the Centre de Design at the University of Quebec in Montreal, where we have an innovative wall-hung dishwasher, or dishwasheur, as it's probably called. More »

5:40 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Addy Dugdale
6,332 views, 25 comments

Latest by One2ManyCords: @drewheyman: take it you've never been in a commericail kitchen more »

future radios

Four Crazy Radio Concepts to Celebrate National Inventor's Day

Today is National Inventor's Day, in honor of Thomas Edison, and Giz is going to celebrate it with some designs from the Work In Progress show by students at London's Royal College of Art. There are no less than four concept radios in the show, including this one by Mikael Silvanto, which melds a slide rule with an iPod-esque analog radio. The other three, including one which uses QR codes to hook up graffiti artists with pirate radio stations, are below. More »

7:53 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Addy Dugdale
3,360 views, 8 comments

Latest by guypatsy: You can not celebrate Edison with radios. Tesla was responsible for the first wireless broadcast, and he was a true inventor. If you really want to celebrate Edison you should burn radios, kill elephants, and power your whole house on more »

idiots

Student Catches Principal Fighting With Student on Cellphone Camera, School Responds By Banning Cellphones

Way to go, Caddo School Board. You've won yourself the Gizmodo luddite of the week award. See, when a student films the principal of your Huntington High School fighting another student, the correct response isn't to ban cellphones, it's to make sure principals don't fight with students. It was only after the student showed the clip to local media that you actually did something about the situation, putting the principal on paid administrative leave. As a side note, we would also have accepted "resigning and putting people not completely retarded onto the school board" as a correct response. [Shreveport Times via Techdirt - Image courtesy Chicspeare] More »

3:32 PM on Fri Dec 21 2007
By Jason Chen
27,479 views, 36 comments

Latest by analyticalmind84: is that picture just a joke or from this "fight"? =/ more »

man vs. beast

Chimpanzees Beat College Students at Computerized Brain Test

You know that game in Brain Age where you get a quick look at a batch of numbers then have to tap them in numerical order after they're hidden? In news that must please the good Dr. Kawashima to no end, scientists at Kyoto University have found that five-year-old chimps are able to perform a (very) similar feat much faster than a group of nine able-minded college students on a touchscreen test bed that resembles the best-selling DS game.
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9:55 PM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By dango
25,662 views, 71 comments

Latest by aamlg: Think your memory is better than the chimp's, or that it's just a matter of training? Try this replica of the memory test to see if you can beat a chimp's score: [games.lumosity.com] more »

a grade

Student Makes Barbie an Electric Chair for Science Fair Project

Middle school student Jessyratfink (not her real name) came up with an innovative &mdash and utterly brazilliant &mdash project for her science fair: an electric chair for Barbie. You can find out just how she did it on the Instructables website, but there's a small gallery below of her handiwork. More »

6:08 AM on Tue Sep 11 2007
By Addy Dugdale
9,992 views, 28 comments

Latest by banmojo: *phew* Thought I was the sickest puppy around here. Clearly THAT ain't the case!! more »

ledegree

LED Graduation Mortar Board Mod

Graduation is something I thought I would never see hacked, until now. David Worden recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin and hacked up his mortar board to have blinking LEDs. While other people think they are crafty by writing "Hi Mom" on their cap, Worden showed them all up with this LED mod. His degree is in electrical engineering, go figure. More »

4:20 PM on Mon May 21 2007
By Travis Hudson
1,932 views, 16 comments

Latest by comma_comedian: I'm with syzygy. Something like this would have been a lot cooler: http://www.ladyada.net/make/spokepov/ You'd have to modify it to use some other sensor for rotation (an accelerometer should do it), but that's where being an EE would come in handy. more »

diy games

Pong, Anytime, Anywhere

As part of the ECE 476 Microcontroller Design course at Cornell University, two students have taken the game of Pong and added a new twist. This version of Pong can be played on any flat surface using two laser-sensing paddles and a laser projector that projects the Pong ball. The entire project only set the duo back $48. Hit the link below to get all of the nitty-gritty details about the game, how it works and even videos of the two designers—Adrian Wong and Bhavin Rokad—playing the game. Nice work guys. –Travis Hudson More »

6:00 PM on Thu May 10 2007
By Travis Hudson
2,903 views, 11 comments

Latest by BigDanInTX: This would work alot better on a table-top. Hang the projector above it. Now...imagine a pseudo 3D one... oooh! Holographic projector!! =-D (*mind continues to wander*) more »

cellphones

MSU Cellphone GPS Tracking, Part Duex

If you recall, yesterday we mentioned the program that Monclair State University has implemented. For a quick refresher, they gave all incoming freshman a cellphone that comes equipped with a GPS tracker. Sounds a little Big Brother-ish, right? Well not really. I had a chat with an MSU employee who gave me the full rundown of the program and how amazingly awesome it is. Hit the jump to get the full scoop. More »

4:30 PM on Wed Jul 12 2006
By Travis Hudson
2,092 views, 4 comments

cellphones

Big Brother Gives out Free Cellphones

Montclair State University will soon be providing their students with more goodies than just textbooks and debt up to their eyeballs. Students enrolled at this New Jersey college will also receive a free cellphone. The premise behind this idea is to provide safety for students by allowing them to always have a way to call for help or even a DD. There is a bit of a catch, though. Each cellphone is equipped with a GPS tracking device so at any given time school administrators can pinpoint the exact location of a student. More »

11:30 AM on Tue Jul 11 2006
By Travis Hudson
364 views, 11 comments

Latest by Worf: Well, the student has the option of NOT USING SCHOOL-PROVIDED CELLPHONES! If they object, just leave it off in the dorm room and get your own cellphone already. more »

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