October 11, 2006
Samsung SGH-i760 Smartphone
Wow, this is what I am looking forward to, my HTC 8125 is so slow… , this 520Mhz seems like a turbo boost compared to my 200Mhz HTC smartphone. Samsung takes another potshot at the Motorola Q with its upcoming SGH-i760, a Windows Mobile 5 for Pocket PC Smartphone with an Intel 520MHz CPU inside. This one looks like it has it all, with a sli ... More
Obi-Wan the Cursor using Make Controller!
View This Video on You Tube Here’s an interesting project that could be used for many applications including “airmouse”… …use four screens, and sometimes lose my cursor. No more! I have Obi-WanQui-Gon to point the way for me. Using the Makezine Controller, a small X program, OSC, and a pair of servo motors, I have a ... More
HOW TO- Make an IV-18 VFD Vacuum Russian clock
View This Video on You Tube Cool DIY on how to make a vacuum tube VFD clock… After my nixie clock, I decided to build a new one based on a old VFD vacuum tube. In fact, the brother of a friend (which live in Ukrainia) give me a bag of tubes. Beside I already have a little set of this kind, I discover the IV-18. This one, is really big, and ... More
DIY Lightning strobe for Halloween projects
Lightning strobe for your Halloween projects or any scary shows! via Make cell phones, cell-phones, circuit, Circuits, Circuits, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Entertainment, Hack, Hack, halloween, make, Online Games, Online Games, Projects, scary, Shows, Zedomax ... More
Zedomax Server Updated Finally - Wordpress Restore HOWTO also
Yes, now we can go about 100 times faster I’d say since we are no longer sharing our website with bunch of other websites, we got own web server! It took 6 hours for me to move the site from shared host on bluehost.com to a dedicated server elsewhere. Thanks to help from the tech support, I was able to troubleshoot the problem. When usin ... More
zedomax reaches 100,000 unique visitors!
Yes, we’ve reached over 100,000 unique visitors since we’ve opened on August 14th 2006! Thanks to everyone who’ve come to visit our site daily and weekly! We want to thank Phillip Torrone and Bre from Make blog for posting our stuff and bringing us some good traffic, Digg also for bringing us some good traffic, Greg at DIY Li ... More
Circuit - Voltage Divider Calculator
Here’s a cool site that will calculate resistor values and voltages for you if you ever want to do something like 20V to 10V or 5V to 3.3V… Circuits, DoItYourself! ... More
October 9, 2006
Gameboys and robots!
Cool robots using Atmel chips! Here’s how to build a simple robot for $34 that is expandable to a wide range of projects. From sumo to fire fighting to soccer… Thanks Jose! via make atmel, DoItYourself!, Microcontroller, Microcontroller, Robots, robots, Robots, soccerbot, sumbot, Zedomax ... More
Server Upgrade!
zedomax.com will be moving to a new server over the next couple days, please be patient as we are trying our best to upgrade to our new server! DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, server_upgrade, Zedomax ... More
October 8, 2006
Before you start Keyboard Hacking
Before you start Keyboard hacking, you can refer to this cool site that explains how to interface the PC’s keyboard. Circuits, Circuits, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Hack, Hack, interface_keyboard, interface_pc_keyboard, keyboard_hacking, pc, Zedomax ... More
DIY Circuit - 1-Channel Light Organ for 12V Bulbs
Here’s a cool DIY circuit for those of you making party lights for your halloween show. Audio, Audio, circuit, Circuits, Circuits, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Entertainment, light_organ, parts, radio_shack, Zedomax ... More
DIY - Build your Halloween UFO using a recycled big can
Here’s a cool site on building your halloween UFO that will hover over your front yard and scare people~ Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, halloween, halloween_diy, holloween, people, scare, ufo, Zedomax ... More
DIY - DIY Amp pictures
Here’s a site that has a huge numbers of DIY amplifier designs, power supply, circuits, and more! 100MPG, amplifier, Audio, Audio, Cool, Cool, designs, diy_amp, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, headphone, headset ... More
Wall-bot - draw on your big empty wall!
Here’s a cool automated wall-draw-bot, you can draw bunnies like this on your wall! via make bunnies, Cool, Cool, draw_bot, Robots, robots, wall_bot, wall_draw_bot, Zedomax ... More
DIY - Cool LEDs
Cool Blue LEDs that you can make. I decided to make my own dot matrix display because they look cool, and none can be found in blue, which is the best colour, so I decided, may as well make it myself. via make Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, LED, make, Microcontroller, Microcontroller, Zedomax ... More
Video - What happens inside a harddrive
View This Video on You Tube Here’s a really cool video of what the harddrive does while the user types, copy & pastes, and etc…etc… Joshuamarius writes - “Simple operations performed by a hard drive with no cover, so that you can see what it looks like inside. This experiment was performed on an old hard drive, do not t ... More
October 7, 2006
Automatic Quarterback
Check out this automatic quarterback from Hammacher Schlemmer! A powerful football passer that throws a perfect spiral every time, our automatic quarterback sends a soft polyurethane foam football up to 30 yards, and adjusts between lateral passes and long, high bombs. Children can set the timer for running deep, or a friend can launch a pass wit ... More
Play virtual golf in your living room
Now you can play golf in your living room without lugging your golf ba everywhere. I am gonna need this as I am running out of time to play golf these days… They have some cool virtual simulators including baseball, bowling, powerboxing, tennis, and more! via xavix Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Golf, Golf, Sports, Sports ... More
October 6, 2006
Zedomax DIY 113 - Build a bluetooth controlled Holloween Hovercraft party light!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Okay, the other day we made a cool hovercraft, today we will add a bluetooth module and a embedded computer to make it spin so we can take it to our friend’s next Holloween party and start groovin’ via Link via Link [html in english] Bluetooth ... More
Philips Smart Light Alarm Clock
Cool light, I need this since I cannot get up easily and can get very cranky in the mornings… You may still be reeling from that jarring alarm that scared you out of bed this morning, so here’s a concept from Philips that could change all that, an alarm clock with a soft light that fades up over a half an hour. You can adjust its ulti ... More
Looking Back - Back to the Future II Hoverboards
Cool, these seem like life-size hoverboards used in the movie, Back to the Future II. It would be awesome to have a hoverboard that worked in real life like this without big motors… These are all 5 different Hoverboards from Back to the Future II. Many of these boards were made for the movie. Some from wood, some from hard foam. These are a ... More
DIY - Three Axis Hovercraft
Okay, we know we’ve been going crazy over some hovering crafts this week, but this is the emerging technology that has not been studied in depth yet. We need hovercars please! Here’s a cool 3-axis hovercraft! via make 3_axis, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, hover, Hovercraft, Hovercraft, hovering, Zedomax ... More
Platinum-coated virus to be used for speedy memory
Wow, memory made from virus living in cigarettes? All the hip-cool scientists these days are enslaving living organisms to do their bidding. Luckily, they’re sticking with the micro end of the size spectrum, or “nano” end in this case. Apparently they’ve managed to create some supa’ fast memory chips by coating 30-na ... More
