February 11, 2007
DIY - IMbot
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool IM-bot, which let’s you know when your friends are online. This one is for Linux but it shouldn’t be too hard to make it yourself using a P ... More
February 10, 2007
DIY - Color Organ
Wow, check this color organ out, it almost looks like candy. The circuit itself consists of an electret condensor microphone feeding a two stage preamplifier with a sensitivity control. The signal is then split up into three channels with individual level adjustments. Each channel has it’s own filter circuit, so that they each respond to a ... More
Magical induction heating - non-contact heat
Wow, I’ve always thought of this as pure magic but here’s the reasons behind the non-contact heating appliances. When an alternating electric current is passed through a coil, the coil creates a magnetic field. The magnetic lines of flux cut through the air around the coil. If a ferrous material, such a solid bar ... More
February 9, 2007
Zedomax DIY 127 - Make an Ethernet controlled Color Organ!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. For this weekend, we will show you how to make an ethernet controlled color organ that can be applied for some kind of stage lighting. We will be using the party light we made and simply plugin the MaxPORT module to the serial port of the CuSB22R. Click below for the full HOWTO: Then all you ... More
Optical recognition LEDs
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool video of optical recognition LEDs. Seems pretty easy to make, can you hack one? via Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, Hack, Microcontroller, Micro ... More
February 8, 2007
DIY HACK - Computer FAN generator
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out how you can use your computer FAN as a generator to power your cellphone and other small electrical devices! via dabomb.tv Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Enter ... More
Copper plating and etching Altoids tins
Wow, this is a great copper plating technique for getting anything you want onto aa Altoids tin! via Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Graphics, Graphics, magic, magic ... More
More Motor Experiments - 3 Stepper motors with CUBLOC CB280
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Here’s an update of controlling 3 stepper motors using a CUBLOC CB280 module. Although you can move the motors simultaneously, there are a lot of applications you can use it for. Sorry about the video, my video camera needs head cleaning. applications, build, cb280, Circuits, Circuits, c ... More
DIY - Motor Experiment - CUBLOC CB280 with Xylotex Stepper Motor
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. We’ve been messing around with some industrial stepper motors at work. These Xylotex stepper motors are pretty cool. We have an example here for interfacing with some CUBLOC modules. We got the 3-axis stepper kit so we will have a 3 stepper motor update soon too. 3axis, build, cb280, Circuit ... More
February 7, 2007
DIY - AVR based Bucket mousetrap
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool little project for capturing mouse! This project captures a mouse by having a solenoid (electromagnet) drop a bucket over the mouse. The bucket is triggered by the mouse interrupting one of the infrared emitter/detector pairs around the bait ... More
DIY HACK - Get a 1 second pulse circuit from your ordinary Clock!
Here’s a cool hack on getting the circuit from your ordinary clock and using it as a super accurate 1-second pulsing circuit. Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, Hack ... More
DIY - Make your own modern ceiling light!
Check out this cool modern style kitchen light you make yourself on a budget! tighT! This project started with a very common problem: terrible kitchen lighting. Like most people, my kitchen lighting was awful and consisted of just one dome lamp in the middle of the ceiling. The other possible option is the ugly fluorescent recessed lighting tha ... More
February 6, 2007
DIY - How To Make Your Own Homebrewed PCBs
I think this has been around but we’ve been thinking about making some homebrew PCBs, so… This DIY is pretty good since it has lots of cool pictures… nice glove… via aliben Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Gadgets, Gadgets, Industrial, Industrial, Micro ... More
How to build your own heart monitoring device, a simple ECG?
Here’s a cool DIY on howto build your own heart rate monitoring device using an Atmel Atmega8 microcontroller. You can probably easily make this idea work with any other microcontroller out on the market with an ADC. After a little introduction into ECG we will move on to the electronic description. The simplest way to explain how it work ... More
February 5, 2007
DIY HACk! - How to make an etched minty Valentines candy box
Wow, here’s a cool way to make some etched candy box for Valentines day using some everyday hacker’s parts! Speaking of killing you, as we are using water and electricity here, please be supper-duper cautious. I can’t be held responsible for burned fingers, house fires, dead cats or any combination thereof. Please use some comm ... More
Homemade brushless motors
Here’s some cool looking homemade brushless motors made using some PC Hard drive parts and power tools…. wow! My first home-built outrunner motor from hard drive stators (Western Digital Caviar). Motor designation is 280-10-6 as it has a 28dia x 10mm long stator. I used 6 windings of 3-strand 0.35mm wire with a delta connection and a ... More
Hands-on with the AtariLab Kit
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode I’ve been witness to some retro Atari’s you can buy at Target for like 30 bucks. Here’s some cool kits you can actually put sensors and make it act as an MCU. AtariLab is a sensor kit for the 8-bit Atari computers. I ordered two of the kits rec ... More
DIY - FM Transmitter
Here’s a cool little design for your future FM transmitter. (I’ve built similar ones before, the challenge is, can you build one that’s stereo and noise-free?) Using the simple designs of Tetsuo Kogawa, Japanese engineer famous for “party radio” and “polymorphous radio,” Neighborhood Public Radio will sprea ... More
AVR LED Clock
Ah ha! Here’s a cool AVR LED Clock you can make that also syncs itself with the NTP time server via ethernet! (We are going to have to make this too…) via avr, Circuits, Circuits, clock, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Gadgets, Gadgets, HOWTO, LED, make, makezine, M ... More
February 2, 2007
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Update
Things have been going crazy over Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I think their guerilla marketing strategy did work! Check out these interesting links for the Aqua week: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Homemade LED Shirt Boston Mooninite installers arrested eBay Watch: Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED Board Selling for $787 Video of people who got arrested (These ... More
DIY Hack video - 100 psi Air cannon, 45cal Coil Gun, and more!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this video with cool hacks in one made by a crazy mad scientist! Hacked Gadgets friend FastMHz has been busy doing all sorts of experiments, and this crazy mad scientist has captured it on tape for our enjoyment! Not sure if all fingers and toes are st ... More