Various Strange Ideas

• Games
• Web Sites
• Electronics Bench in a Box
• What to do with a small but very high speed processor
• Universal IO chip
• Minimal Controller
• Free eggs
• Free Fish +
• Solar powered Air Conditioning
• mc-heat-inject Internal injection flash steam heat engine.+
• sun turbo
• Mirror scanning intermittant-use low-cost camera
• Light fixture with Multi-zone light level detection and compensation +
• Remote regulator with wireless reporting
• low cost CAM
• Lego Logic / Optical NAND
• Printing SMT Circuit Boards with solder bleed traces between tiny copper islands. protopas
• Sane Automobiles
• wing blimp
• Lightweight, safe, high speed, high flying windmill
• Page Binding Systems
• Church of the Eternal To Do List
• Offset Anchor Stake
• Pamspermia
• Simplify the spelling of the English langauge

Web sites:

• a Technical reference that users can update directly (now available at
  http://techref.massmind.org )
• a Dictionary  that users can update directly
• a Pricebook that users can update directly
• a chat / im / forum / blog / exchange combination system

Also:

• Ingenuity

See also:

• http://amasci.com/amateur/holo1.html Hand drawn holograms
• http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/models/solderer.pdf A simple spot welder using a car battery charger/starter is detailed here:
• http://home.vicnet.net.au/~upnet/ a laser based WAN (neighborhood wireless ISP via light)
• http://www.halfbakery.com/index-top10.html Very cool! Lists ideas posted by browsers and allows linking to related articles or existing versions, posting of comments, and voting for how good the idea is.
• http://www.technoscout.com
• http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/infopg/thoughts.html

James Newton Says:

The head mouse: From the back of the eyeglasses, a line runs between the two ends of the frame (just like the the straps designed to allow glasses to hang down from the neck, but thinner) and a pully and line from that one is pulled down the back by a weak spring. Left / right motion of the head will not pull on this line, because the line between the frames will simply pull through the pully. Front / back motion of the head will pull the line.

Another line goes down the back from only one of the two ends of the frame. This line will be affected more by the left right motion than the up down motion.

Both lines are passed around the shaft of the encoders on a mechanical mouse before being terminated in a long, weak spring or a "take up" reel.

Target Lighting:

Regenerative Bike Brake: Use a flexible or hinged frame to store power from breaking by bending or raiseing the frame. When the break is released, the frame returns to its original shape or position and in doing so starts the bike off again.

http://www.halfbakery.com/user/James_20Newton

Garden Logger +

Comments:

• A tiny flashlight circuit board that can be clipped to glasses or stuck to a surface. Made with coin cells, a slide switch and some high intensity LED's. Solar cell charging?+

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