Author Archives: picoprojects

Do-It-Yourself Smart Grid Monitor Brief project description This post details a real-time web based household power usage chart. The end result is a live chart in a web page that updates every 10 seconds with the instantaneous power usage for … Continue reading →

This post is my first attempt to document the design and construction of my Picodore 64. It’s a Commodore 64 based PDA / Palmtop. Really, all the hard stuff was already done before I joined the DTV hacking scene, I … Continue reading →

Today, CNN.com is featuring an article about the vulnerabilities of e-Passports. In case you don’t know, beginning in August, new U.S. passports will contain an RFID tag. An RFID tag is a little circuit and antenna that allows data to … Continue reading →

My lastest addition to Jason’s Fishcam turned into quite a networking challenge. I needed to stream video from a server behind a proxy server and a firewall. Oh, and the webcam server had a dymanic IP.My first attempt was to … Continue reading →

Need to make Windows think part of your memory is a hard drive? Try making a RAMDrive (or RAM Disk some people call it). This will dedicate a section of your computer’s memory to the temporary storage of folders and … Continue reading →

This post describes two projects that involve controlling a video game (Quake II) via electrical signals generated by the body, otherwise known as a “Brian Machine Interface”. The first project is an EOG (electro-oculography) video game controller. In an EOG … Continue reading →

This is a prototype of an essential tremor suppression device. I built it for a biomedical engineering design contest (which I won). Essential tremor is a neurological disease that causes uncontrollable shaking of the hands and arms. A surgical treatment … Continue reading →

I’ve been suffering from some allergy problems lately and while I was at Lowe’s, I took a look at their selection of air purifiers. Much to my surprise, the cheapest one they had was $70. I took the liberty of … Continue reading →