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DIY Pulsar Mini-Synthesizer/Sequencer!

by max on April 13th, 2009
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I have a confession to make, I have been corrupted by one of my best friend to spend hours in front of his 80s sequencer and make my own music. If you are a hardcore DJ/hacker/musician, you might be interested in this cool DIY Pulsar Mini Synthesizer/Sequencer that will let you make some cool 8-bit sounds ALL day long. :p via make Video of the Pulsar Sequencer in action: Download la ...

Thank you.

by max on April 11th, 2009
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It’s been exactly 2 years, 7 months, and 26 days since this site was started. In the beginning, this site wasn’t even a real blog, I used basic HTML code to create couple pages that looked like a blog. Of course, after using Wordpress and started covering more DIYs, HOWTOs, gadgets, and other cool tech stuff, we began to grow and grow. As you can see, the initial traffic s ...

Twitter Hack - How to Make a Twitter Power Meter!

by max on April 10th, 2009
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Twitter has probably been the hottest growing social networking/microblogging service this year hands-down. Needless to say, its uses are endless and great for the DIY community for tinkerers, makers and alike. Without further due, I announce Lady Ada’s new Tweet-A-Watt power meter system so you will know exactly how much energy your “twittering” is costing you. I di ...

Arduino Hack - How to Make your Own Knight Rider Scanner!

by max on April 8th, 2009
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My old friend Garrett Mace over at MaceTech.com (also @macegr on Twitter) has been tinkering and released his own ShiftBrite RGB LED module. It’s currently out of stock but he says he will have more of them soon. (You can also check out Garrett’s previous DIYs he did on Zedomax.com here) You can make an easy Knight Rider Scanner with these ShiftBrites that Garrett persona ...

TweetHacking.com Launched - Twitter Hacks, Gadgets, and More!

by max on April 8th, 2009
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Well, over the weekend, I’ve noticed how “fast” Twitter is growing, especially this year. And I’ve also notice how many new DIY Twitter gadgets have been popping up at Zedomax.com and elsewhere so I’ve decided to open a new blog dedicated to Twitter Hacks for Twitters, TweetHacking.com. Here’s the first few posts from the new Twitter Hacks Blog: ...

Nintendo Hack - How to Convert your PowerGlove into a Wiimote-lik ...

by max on April 7th, 2009
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Do you remember when the first Nintendo PowerGlove came out? It was like the tightest game controller ever. Well, nowdays “nobody” uses a PowerGlove but here’s a guy who hacked it, added an accelerometer, and now functional just like a Wiimote, or maybe even better. Over the past month, I’ve done just that. I stripped the guts out of an original Power Glove, replace ...

DIY Speech Controlled Garbage Can!

by max on April 7th, 2009
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode We have seen touchless garbage cans all over the place in the last couple years but this DIY speech-controlled garbage can is a better idea that will move via your voice commands. The garbage can will come to you following a black line and stopping when it sees a cross in the line, then waits for ano ...

Harddisk Hack - How to Make a Harddisk DataLocker!

by max on April 6th, 2009
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode A sophisticated harddisk datalocker using a PIC microcontroller might not be what you had in mind for securing your data but this guy has done just that, all colorfully illustrated with detailed instructions. How to turn and ordinary external harddrive into a datalocker using only a PIC microcontroll ...

Circuits DIY - How to Make a Weather Station!

by max on March 26th, 2009
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Here’s an impressive weather station project you can make that will show you bunch of great current weather conditions. I do highly like the graph part, it can be developed even further to allow internet remote monitoring and more. Now this was a huge project! All sensors had to be fully tested one at a time, wireless communication had to be perfect, various LCDs were tried. Nev ...

Arduino Hack - How to Make a Sonar Distance Twitter Buzzer!

by max on March 26th, 2009
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Here’s an interesting gadget that will respond to how far you are away from the computer and also twitt your distance. I am not exactly sure what the point of this is but I am sure it can easily be applied to system security and related things. arduino & sonar returns your distance away from the computer and it is displayed on the screen. the farther away you are from the com ...