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.

A link to disposable Coil Gun

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. But not any more. Below I describe a simple interface between a T28 mobile phone (ME) and Matsui VX770 VCR to allow remote recording of programmes.

[via] frisnit

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 money easy…

Lantronix Wireless Contest

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

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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 challenge, and some you probably haven’t heard of. Keep an eye on it in the next two weeks. We’re uploading video of Josh Schachter, Del.icio.us, and others from the Emerging Tech conference next week.

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

Cute Flash Drive coming from Freshly Squeezed Flash

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 MP4, AVI, ASF, MP3, OGG, WMA, AC3
• Timed recording feature allows scheduled recordings in advance
• Storage via media cards (SD/MMC and CF) or external USB hard drive
• IR Remote Learning and Playback
• Future Implementation for Network Attached Storage functionality
• Updateable Open Source Firmware
• Linux OS (2.6 Kernel)

[via] thinkgeek

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 Traditional electronics distributor (digikey/mouser/newark). Half of the parts can be sampled for free, for a minimal total cost of $25 for parts, and $25 for a PCB. And the case is soooo Minty!*

[via] mit

Another Altoid MP3 Player from Make

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 you can customize after building it.

via icbank