December 21, 2006
HACK - Digitized Doodle Dome using PICAXE and 5.25″ floppy drives
Here’s a real cool doodle dome using a PICAXE and a 5.25″ floppy drive! The Doodle Dome was a toy made by Tyco in the early 1990’s. It is basically an Etch-A-Sketch type deal, except that instead of a flat rectangle, it is (most of) a sphere. Like an Etch-a-Sketch, there are two knobs that move a little pointer around a drawing ... More
Zedomax Christmas DIYs
In case you haven’t checked out what we’ve been digging up lately, you can click on the pictures below and check them out! christmas-diy, christmas-led-tree, christmas-light, christmas-tree, christmas-wreath, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DIY Zedomax, DIY Zedomax, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational ... More
DIY IdeA - Pimp My Bed!
Here’s a future DIY project we can make with some LEDs… how about some color changing BED LEDS??? You’ve seen it in the hit MTV series, now you can give your bed a fast and furious look this Christmas with this glowing neon light. Fix Pimp My Bed to the underside of your bed, switch it on and it’ll transform a dull and dre ... More
Video - Spider-bot
View This Video on You Tube Check out the Mondo Spider at Industrialus. Debuted at Burning Man, this Spider Bot seats one and walks along at what seems like an earth-rumbling three miles an hour. Although slow, when you’re seated in the Spider Bot, you look like a half-man, half-machine amalgamation that lost the lower part of its body in a horr ... More
DIY - Kite + Ice + Butt + Board
View This Video on You Tube Here’s a way to make your old skateboard to work during your cold winter holidays! I’d make one myself with my old skateboards but here in Cali, we have no frozen lakes… Your screaming steel blades carve the ice. Your straining kite hurls you along at incredible speeds. You are mere inches above the i ... More
Energy saving Billboard LEDS powered by a bike!
Here’s some good effort to saving earth’s energy and good advertisement for the company mentioned in the billboard ad. Last week in downtown Vancouver the billboard you see above was exlusively powered by volunteers pedaling a single bicycle over a span of about 5 days. The advertisement was sponsored by DDB/Vancouver and BC Hydro (hy ... More
HACK - Download free mp3 music using GOogle!
Tight little hack that I never knew existed! Free mp3 Downloads from Google. With this simple trick, you can get tons of mp3 download links using just Google All you have to do is search for this.. "Band or Artist name here" last modified mp3 "index of" -html -htm -php -asp For example i want to get some Red Hot Chili Peppers’ song… "R ... More
David scanner - scan 3D images using a regular PC camera!
Cool, now you can use some regular PC camera to scan 3D objects! DAVID is a freeware software for laser range scanning. All you need is a PC, a camera (e.g. a webcam), a background corner, and a laser which projects a line onto the object you want to scan. So everyone can use it to scan objects without high costs; this is the big adv ... More
Fun with Waterjet: Make an X out of an Xbox!
It is nice to have friends at Microsoft and cut up some cool stuff… The point of the story is the waterjet machine though, we really need one of these, it looks like you can cut anything! A few days ago, some friends of mine from Microsoft stopped by with some junk X-Box circuit boards. So, we stuck them under the machine, and cut them to ... More
“Bush hid the facts!” HACK on Windows XP Notepad app
View This Video on You Tube Here’s a cool bush hack on Windows XP Notepad. I tried it and it works. It must be some kind of political scheme or somethin’ Must have been a bug one of the programmers made on purpose or something… via bush, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, Government, ... More
December 20, 2006
Quick Browser HACK - Google and Yahoo Bookmarklets for Firefox, IE, and Safari
Today, I was trying to bookmark some stuff on Google and Yahoo and noticed that there weren’t any bookmarklets for them that were available. They have toolbars but I rather have a simple button to click then do click, scroll, click… So I hacked one real quick. Now you can just click a button on your browser to save your favorite sites ... More
Wii HACK - Wii Drum Machine
View This Video on You Tube Nicely done Wii drum machine hack! Bob Somers managed to turn a Wiimote into a drum machine using this custom script and GlovePIE. Video after the jump. Now if you could just get two Wiimotes running at the same time, along with some sort of foot switch mechanisms for the kick drum and hi-hat, you’d have a full-fledge ... More
DIY HACK - HOWTO make a open-source MP3 Player!
The guys Will at posted his howto on . He shows us how to solder and assemble the Make Daisy MP3 Player from scratch! Well, this MP3 Player has always been on our priority list for hacking and modding so check it out and make one for yourself! We plan to hack it with some LCDs and more… via Audio, Audio, awesome, christmas, Circuits ... More
WII HACK - Wii Controller HACKED!
Here’s the guts of wii dissected by Sparkfun team showing all the parts including some type of I2C interface and Broadcom wireless solution as you can see in the above pics. U7849 6Q63 could be anything. All those flat round things (330, 100, 4R7) are inductors 33uH, 10uH, and 4.7uH. These are predominantly used for DC to DC step-up or s ... More
Dallas Cowboys Stadium to Get World’s Largest 20,000 Square Feet of Video Screen
Wow, check out this upcoming HDTV! You thought the largest HDTV screen war is over? Well! That’s not actually the case! And, before you make any presumptions about Panasonic loosing hold of owning the world’s largest HDTV display for its 103-inchie plasma panel, let me steer you in the right direction! This time Dallas Cowboys Stadium has cli ... More
Floating Candlelight
Nice, someone get it for me on Christmas! Water and fire usually don’t work so well together. There are some exceptions, of course, like the steam turbine engine or using fire to boil water and cook up a nice heaping plate of pasta. Another exception would be the new Float from Mathmos. This candle powered light brings together these two el ... More
Nintendo DS HACK - Homebrew Nintendo DS Tilt Sensor
View This Video on You Tube Here’s a nicely done tilt sensor for your Nintendo DS! Tilt sensing isn’t quite the novelty it once was, with all these new-fangeled controllers and laptops flooding the market, but as much as the execution might lack, or our child-like joy wane, we’ve always got room for one more tilt-enabled doohicke ... More
Cool Video for Math Junkies - When Mathematical Constants Go on a Date
View This Video on You Tube Cool little math dating… Pi and e go on a date, and one of them has a chilling secret! Ah, nerdy math jokes … via neatorama Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, date, e, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, math-date, math-junkies, mathmatics, neatorama, pi, Video, Video, youtube, Z ... More
blind reader-translate letters to braille
Here’s a cool upcoming technology that can change the world forever for you if you are blind. It translates text into braille and lots of more features. The bridge is a neat device. None of the technology is not revolutionary but the tiny package is impressive. “When it is scanning the text in books or other presswork, it translates the t ... More
Gadget Time - Koban’s SP-220E plays music, detects earthquakes
Check this out audio gadget that also detects earthquakes. This might be good for zedomax as we are in earthquake territory… via Audio, Audio, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Earth, Earth, earthquake, Educational, Educational, engadget, Gadgets, Gadgets, goog, google-map, Industrial, Industrial, japan, Zedomax ... More
Bugbots - “real” Bug clocks
Check out Bugbots or real bugs with clock embedded in them! Our review is two thumbs up for ingenuity and creativity. It’s the though that counts right, well if you get your special someone this gift for the holidays I am not sure you will be around to celebrate next years holiday season. “Each bug is a real bug, with it’s carbon guts re ... More
December 19, 2006
