March 2, 2007
DIY - How to run your car from water!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool video of car running on water. What do you think? Thanks gfcgamer! via byronnewenergy Here’s also a conversion-kit guide you can buy. Auto, Auto, automobile, car, car-from-water, car-runs-on-water, Chemistry, Chemistry, Circuits, Ci ... More
March 1, 2007
Renewable hydrogen energy technology Kit
Here’s a fun kit that will allow you to make energy from air by combining hydrogen and oxygen! The Exhibition Set is the ideal model for demonstrating renewable hydrogen energy technology to large groups, in classrooms, at trade shows or in the boardroom. Clearly labeled components and gas tubes make the Exhibition Set simple to operate and ... More
Touchscreen table experiment
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this cool touchscreen table experiment you can do in about 4 hours. This is an experiment based on “frustrated total internal reflection” aka FTIR. This is a very basic demo and we did it just to see how it work and it took us just 4 days! The m ... More
February 28, 2007
DIY HACK - Modded handcrank flashlight powers phone!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out the simple handcrank powering a cellphone! via cell phones, cell-phones, cellphone, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Earth, Earth, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment ... More
Water Powered Batteries with MIT’s Walter Levin lessons
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This video proves that energy can be tranformed into a battery, perhaps confirming that it is possible to make a battery with a candle, lime, or potatoes. Thanks gfcgamer! battery, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Earth, Earth, Educational, ... More
February 26, 2007
Free CNC Stepper Driver Overview Info
Check out PMinMO Electronics, they got some great pdfs on stepper drivers. Thanks joe! Circuits, Circuits, cnc, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Electronics, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Industrial, Industrial, joe, machine, milling, pdf, Projects, Projects, stepper-drivers, stepper-motor, Zedomax ... More
February 25, 2007
Robotic Beer Launching Refrigerator!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this cool beer launcher for your lazy weekends. via coolstuff Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, Gadgets, Gadgets, Robots, robots, Video, Video ... More
Bluetooth Accelerometer
Check out this PIC based bluetooth accelerometer that you can use for your future wireless accelerometer applications. This is a small wireless sensor platform providing a bluetooth SPP link to three axes of accelerometer data. The accelerometers are sampled by a PIC microcontroller (onboard ADC) at roughly 100Hz (rate can be changed via firmware ... More
February 23, 2007
HOWTO get out of hacking,diying, and resistors…
Check out web comics…sometimes we feel like we need to keep going but sometimes we need to go outside… via Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, diying, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Gadgets, Gadgets, hacking, make, makezine, Zedomax ... More
DIY - How to build BEAM Vibrobots
If you haven’t checked out these funny looking really efficient vibrobots (which sounds funny too), make sure you do. They seems to run primarily on solar power and you can do a lot with it. (hopefully… :P) In the current issue of MAKE (Vol. 8), I have a piece on Pummers, a type of solar-powered robotic plant life. I’ve known ... More
Smalled RFID tags are smaller than human hair!
Check out the new RFID tags that are smaller than human hair from Hitachi Japan! The minute devices measure just 0.05mm by 0.05mm (0.002×0.002in) and to the naked eye look like spots of powder. They are thin enough to be embedded in a sheet of paper, Hitachi spokesman Masayuki Takeuchi says. RFID tags store data about the objects they are att ... More
February 21, 2007
DIY - Simple LCD Control with Ethernet
Here’s a cool project that you can control your LCD with ethernet. The simple “switch on/off a relay” circuit which was the only function provided by the avr web server until now did not require HTML-forms. I used simply 2 URLs http://baseurl/password/1 for switching on and http://baseurl/password/0 for switching off. This does n ... More
DIY HACK - Voltmeter Ammeter LCD
Check out voltmeter and ammeter LCD panel you can make using an Atmel8 MCU. Tight! This multimeter was designed to measure output voltage and current in a PSU, where the current sense shunt resistor is connected in series with load at the negative voltage rail. It needs only one supply voltage that can be acquired ... More
February 20, 2007
Tesla coil sparks
Holy crap, this is some tight tesla coil action! The 6 inch coil has performed better than expected with sparks reaching 8 feet (0.5 million volts). The photo above shows 7 foot sparks to the closest point of the ladder. This is with a large topload and a tank capacitance of 92 nF (0.092 uF) at a power in excess of 5 kVA. A ... More
Lithium Extraction out of a Lithium Battery (of course, duh!)
Here’s a cool hack for extracting Lithium out of your Lithium battery for those of you scientists who need some Lithium fast! First you must obtain some dead lithium batteries. This shouldn’t be too hard, as most people will readily give them away when they no longer produce a sufficient current. Fresh ones will work too, but it’ ... More
DIY HACK - Laser Beam Analyzer
Check out this cool laser tester DIY. Very complicated but good source of information if you are into laser testing equipment. The laser beam spot is the tool in laser welding cutting. Industrial lasers are really great, but there’s a huge problem when it comes to knowing the state of your tool. I mean, in a normal milling machine the mill bit ... More
February 19, 2007
Stepper Motor Driver Controller Kit
Check out this cool stepper motor driver you can use for your next CNC milling machine. It is completely open-source with PCB Layout and everything included. Also check out our 3 stepper motor example. via Circuits, Circuits, cnc, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Industrial, Industrial, mac ... More
February 18, 2007
DIY - FPGA to VGA HOWTO
Check out a little DIY on how to connect FPGA to a VGA monitor. Circuits, Circuits, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, fpga, Hack, HOWTO, Projects, Projects, vga-monitor, Video, Video, Zedomax ... More
EchoMp3 v1.4
Check out this open source EchoMP3 player kit. It look similar to the Make MP3 Daisy player but also supports MMC, not that MMC is used that much these days… Audio, Audio, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, echo, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, kit, m ... More
February 17, 2007
Clock run on Mud power
This clock literally runs on mud, awesome! You can get one for about 10 bucks. via Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Earth, Earth, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, mud-clock, neatorama, Zedomax ... More