As a human being, we’re only a very tiny part in this universe. Hence, many people, especially the scientists and astronauts are trying their best to explore the unknown space territory and unveil the mystery behind the universe!

Well, people always thought it’s hard to reveal the truth of the universe, as we need to have some very high-end equipment to perform this task! Believe it or not, there’s an easy way for the ordinary civilian like us to experience the fun of space.

Yep, all you have to do is developing your very own “The BalloonSat Extreme” device. To be honest, the goal behind the BalloonSat is to give opportunity to an individual who want to create an experiment for near space.

The greater part about this project is he/she didn’t need to worry about the launching, tracking or recovery processes, but just rather focus on developing a great experiment, which is suitable for the flight into the near space.

For your information, the BASIC Stamp 2pe (BS2pe) is the main part of the BalloonSat Extreme. The BASIC Stamp is used to optimize the battery operated data loggers. The BalloonSat Extreme has the ability to store up to 30 kb of data, which is allowing you to collect unlimited data that keep you busy for the whole week analyzing it!

Robotic is always a very fascinating stuffs, as it can be used to perform different kind of tasks after you’ve well-programmed it. If you’re one of the loyal fans of robotic, then you must check this Nickel-O-Matic robot.

The main goal of this Nickel-O-Matic robot is to print a cool message on a wooden token. It’s as easy as ABC to develop this Nickel-O-Matic robot. It uses inkjet technology to print a custom message on both sides of 1-1/2″ diameter blank wooden nickels. A BASIC Stamp 2 is being used to control the mechanical movement while a Propeller Chip is for controlling the inkjet system. Both of the controllers run a total of four hobby servos, three stepper motors, one DC motor, one DC vacuum pump, one inkjet head and five IR sensors.

In this project, the inkjet system is the most complex part of the modules. A spindle rotates the wooden nickel under the inkjet head right at the center of the inkjet module. Beside that, a Propeller Chip is requiring to control all the elements of the inkjet module. You have to make sure that these two components always situated on a good condition, as they are responsible for direct control over the inkjet head!

After you’ve done with all the modules, you can easily mount all the components into a 20″ square wooden base and enclose with a clear plastic cover. Now, you got your very own Nickel-O-Matic robot!

Computer has becoming one of the most important gadgets in this 21^st century and people cannot live without the existence of computer at all!

If you’re bored about the ordinary computer, then it’s time to have something more thrilling in your daily life. Guys, let’s meet the world’s first talking and fastest BASIC Stamp Supercomputer!

Basically, this BASIC Stamp Computer is a simply project and it’s using 12 Parallax BASIC Stamp microcontrollers. The components are fully connected together for hardware/software clustered parallel processing.

The BASIC Stamp computer is can be communicated by English and Chinese voice (EMIC TTS board), lights (21 LEDs), vision sound (12 speakers), motion (PIR), ports (176), infrared, Vibra Tab Mass detector, accelerometer, temperature chip, ultrasonics (PING), LCD, and a tiny uOLED color monitor (Isn’t this longer than you thought here? lol)

This supercomputer has 22 switches, where 11 switches are toggle and another 11 switches are pushbutton. Don’t be fooled by its appearance, as this only weighted a few pounds and it’s very portable. This supercomputer can be disassembled easily for international travel too!

The individual BASIC Stamps are able to switch on and off for various special configurations. Beside that, it runs well with all types of batteries.

Are you always having the problem to park your car inside the garage? You just don’t know where the limit is and often gets the car banging on the garage’s door?

Ok, you did feel the frustration and would like to get rid of this problem as soon as possible. Well, this “Garage parking Assistant” might be the permanent solution for you here!

The specialty about this system is it can give you the right signal with a traffic-light style display of when to pull in (Green light), slow down (Yellow light) and Stop signal (Red signal). These lights will ease the parking work for sure!

There are four different zones for this project and each of the zones has the different function.

Zone 1: This zones close to the sensor or wall and will indicate the area you can’t park with. This mean if you’re getting too close with the zone, then the Red LED will flash on/off continuously to give you a warning.

Zone 2: This is the zone, where you know how to park the front of the car.

Zone 3: This is the zone, which you can set where you want to be prepared to stop by.

Zone 4: Here is the zone that the PING))) sensor detects the car and until you’re safely enter the car to the Yellow Zone!

Hope with his innovation project, it will help you overcome the parking problem!

Do you having any special plan for the upcoming Halloween festival? Well, you might be thinking, “Nah, is still too early for it…” However, this is the best chance for you to practice your PIC controller knowledge, by DIY a “Hack-O-Lantern”.

Before you starting the project, those components you need to prepare here are:

• Super Bright LEDs, which means you can keeps the Dim LEDs away from this project
• A Parallax Basic Stamp 2 Microcontroller Board
• Some nails, which it can be used to hold the micro-controller board onto the side of the pumpkin
• Computer speaker that will act as an amplifier
• Sharp knives, and of course
• A big and round Pumpkin!

Ok, firstly, you have to carve your pumpkin and it’s totally depends on your creativity; whether you want to make the pumpkin a scary face, or even smiley face is up to you! You have to make sure that the LEDs will shine through the pumpkin as well.

After that, you must hook up your microcontroller with the LEDs and speakers in the same place. Next, you have to plug in the 470 ohm resistor leading into the far set of rows under the Vss terminal. Then, is time for you to plug the LEDs into the Vss terminals, which it’s exactly the same rows with resistor (rows 14, 13, 12, 11).

Lastly, remember to put the controller into the pumpkin and you’re done with it!

OK, let’s the Halloween party begins…