September 21, 2006
Circuit - DIY Water Level Indicator
I found some cool looking circuits at this website here’s one of them that detect levels of water by shorting…kinda nifty~ This circuit not only indicates the amount of water present in the overhead tank but also gives an alarm when the tank is full. The circuit uses the widely available CD4066, bilateral switch CMOS IC to indicate th ... More
Robot - Interesting sentry robot running Linux using Python
Here’s a cool sentry robot that uses an optical mouse as distance sensor and Linux as OS… View This Video on Google Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Google, Linux, Linux, Microcontroller, Microcontroller, mouse, optical, Robots, robots, Robots, sentry_robot, Video, Video, Zedomax ... More
DIY Video - Plasma in your microwave oven
Here’s a cool video on how to create plasma? View This Video on Google Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, Video, Video ... More
DIY - Coil Gun
Here’s a cool video on diy coil gun… A short high quality video of a home made homemade diy electronics experiment. This is a coil gun. Some people refer to it as a coilgun. This was fired at 700 volts. it rocked so hard. View This Video on Google A link to disposable Coil Gun coil, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Electr ... More
DIY HACK - SMS VCR Control
Kinda cool DIY project here, a SMS VCR control. Imagine it, it’s 3:15 on a weekday afternoon and you’ve just realised you’ve forgotten to set the video to tape ‘Pet Rescue’. Usually you would be condemned to an afternoon of misery and disappointment, knowing you had no heartwarming cute animal stories to come home to ... More
September 20, 2006
Lantronix Wireless Design Contest
I remember talking to Lantronix Appication Engineers and sales people this March at ESC and they were telling me only 10 people submitted projects for their last year’s wireless design contest! Basically, everyone who submitted something won at least couple hundred bucks. Yes, that’s right, if you submit it, you might just win some mo ... More
Cool Innovators videos
Here’s some cool video interviews from technology review that you can check out some of the innovators of today’s technology. via technology review (Submitted by Jason) Jason of Technology Review says, It features some cool innovators you’ve heard of, like Stewart Butterfield of Flickr, and Sebastian Thrun, winner of the DARPA ... More
Yahoo Video coming!
Yahoo is launching a video site finally, try this out. Hmmm, I am wondering how it will differ from YouTube and Google Video… [via] Yahoo Consumer, Consumer, Google, google_video, hmmm, Industrial, Stocks, Stocks, Video, Video, video_site, Web, Web, youtube, Zedomax ... More
Cute Flash Drives~
Cute Flash Drive coming from Freshly Squeezed Flash Business, Business, Consumer, Consumer, cute, flash, flash_drive, Storage, Storage, Zedomax ... More
September 19, 2006
Hack - First look at linux powered DVR/Media recorder
Kinda cool hackable linux powered DVR here. Features: Standalone Linux Based Media Player connects to your TV Record from any external analog audio/video source such as a DVD player or Cable box Automatically encode video/audio for playback on mobile devices such as PSP and mobile phones Playback a variety of media formats on your TV including ... More
DIY - MP3 Player in a Altoids from MIT
Here’s a cool DIY on how to make your MP3 Player that fits in a Altoid can from MIT. It uses a PIC microcontroller, STA MP3 decoder, DAC, Compact Flash as memory card, and a USB interface from FDTI, which is kinda good combination of chips I would say The Minty MP3 player can be built from parts that are sold at Ye Olde Trad ... More
DIY - Build you own MP3 Player
icbank.com, a technology firm in Korea makes these cool MP3 kits you can build. They have two different types of MP3 players that you can build. One of them uses a hard drive and the other one uses an SD memory card as storage. The whole thing runs on a Atmel ATmega 128L, which is kinda cool. They also give you the source code to the firmware, so ... More
September 18, 2006
Plastic Battery from Brown University lasts 100 times more than a standard battery
Awesome new technology from Brown University, this will change a lot of industrial and consumer goods in the future. The result is a hybrid. Like a capacitor, the battery can be rapidly charged then discharged to deliver power. Like a battery, it can store and deliver that charge over long periods of time. During performance testing, the new batt ... More
Camera Quality Shootout between Nokia N93 and Sony Ericsson K800i
Here’s a camera quality shootout between Nokia N93 and Sony Ericsson K800i. Nokia is the on the left side and Sony is on the right. via fosfor gadgets camera, cameraphone, cell phones, cell-phones, Consumer, Consumer, Ericsson, K800i, N93, nokia, Sony, Video, Video, Zedomax ... More
DIY - Sneakier Everyday Uses
Here’s a cool site that has some free DIYs such as sneaky counterfeit detector, sneaky boomerang, sneaky survival watch, and more… via sneakyuses Cy from sneakyuses.com writes, “Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things has a science reuse and conservation theme illustrating how we can do much more than we think with what we already hav ... More
TDK Hits 32GB With NAND
TDK has announced that it’s reached a capacity of 32GB with its new IDE compatible NAND Flash memory. The Flash disk is roughly 20 percent smaller in size than a standard 2.4-inch notebook drive, consumes less less power and can transfer data at rates up to 33.3MBps. It is currently available only in limited sample quantities, but with all the ann ... More
Football Technologies
Here’s some cool technologies used for football these days including water cooling system, Hit System that measures Gs, Bod Pod, Cooling Shirts, and more… [via] hamptonroads Cool, Cool, cooling, Football, Football, Medical, Medical, nfl, Sports, Sports, system, water, Zedomax ... More
September 17, 2006
XBOX 360 Laptop
This is a really cool way of hacking your XBOX 360 to make it mobile… [via] benheck 360, ben-heck, Cool, do-it-yourself, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Games, Games, Hack, Hack, mobile, xbox, Zedomax ... More
DIY Hack - SD Card Connector Hack
Here’s a cool way to connect a SD Card to your WRT54G, but you could probably apply it for any other application… This guy found that an old-style floppy connector fits a SD card perfectly. He shows how to wire the connector up to your WRT54g. [via] unar access_points, cisco, connector, do-it-yourself, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, ... More
DIY - Cardboard robot
This isn’t exactly emerging technology but can be something for your kids to get started in robotics w/o all the hardware and dangerous voltages… [via] a1qualitytoy.com cardboard, Cool, DoItYourself!, easy, kids, robotics, Robots, robots, Robots, toy, Zedomax ... More
Crop cam GPS enabled plane for your farm
Here’s an emerging technology that will help farmers become more efficient using the latests GPS gizmos. The CropCam is a self-guided GPS plane for keeping up with your crops. The farmer tosses it into the air, and the CropCam will fly around in a preset pattern around his fields, snapping precise stills marked with latitude and longitude o ... More
drawbot from Make
Cool drawbot being worked by Make… If this becomes successful, we will find some new street artists who will use a computer to draw your pictures… via make do-it-your-self, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, drawbot, make, Zedomax ... More
September 16, 2006
Linux on a USB memory stick
Now you can have a linux system on your USB stick, take your whole operating system whereever you go! Maybe there’s one for windows out there somewhere too? via pendrivelinux Linux, Linux, pendrive, stick, USB, usb-stick, Zedomax ... More
