December 27, 2006
DIY HACK - Etch CNC
Check out this cool etch CNC. Actually we were thinking of making this too, but since it’s already made, we can learn from it and make it quicker. Awesome! I am using a retrofit machine that fit within my budget. It’s a 2-axis machine with approximately 170×130mm travel. The circuit board is my own design, using a ULN2803 ... More
Wii HACK - Woomba, Wii controller + Roomba!
View This Video on You Tube More nice Wii hacks! wiipee! Also check out all the other Wii hacks on zedomax if you haven’t yet. via via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Games, Games, gizmodo, Hack, Hack, Motor, Motor, Robots, robots, roomba-hack, techeblog, Video ... More
December 23, 2006
DIY Useful Info - AC Devices HOWTO and IR repeaters
Here’s a cool AC Devices HOWTO from the pages of Make! Very simple and very useful. Also check out the IR repeater using McDonald toys on the same page. via ac-devices, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, ir-repeater, make, make-magazine, makezine ... More
December 22, 2006
Unicycle Balancing Bot!
View This Video on You Tube Maurits sent us his unicycle balancing robot which actually has one wheel for moving. Thanks Maurits! Now meet another balancing robot. This one balances on one wheel and apparently uses two RCX bricks and four sensors along with three tires to maintain balance on the axis perpendicular to its unicycle. The robot balanc ... More
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
December 19, 2006
Wii HACK - Wiimote RC-Car Control
View This Video on Google Some guy in Austria Australia hacked the wiimote to work with his RC car. Nice job dude! All you need seams to be a different bluetooth stack than the original windows bluetooth stack. So I just purchased the BlueSoleil Stack which works perfect for me (its cheap, around 10 Eur). To connect the wiimote you just have to ... More
Tight Ass Orb! and more!
Wow, here’s a tight ass POV orb you can make that can display bitmap images! Damn, that’s TIGHT! We are gonna have to put that on our priority list for DIYs… via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Graphics, Graphics, magic, magic, make, makezine, Microco ... More
December 18, 2006
Zedomax DIY HACK - HOWTO make your own “PS3 SIXAXIS controller” style BASIC-programmable USB device!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Remember we had a preview of the upcoming SIXAXIS controller for PC? Well Garrett has now embedded the whole controller into his model airplane. He also added some special effects such as the motor which will rotate at a speed proportional to the actual throt ... More
HOWTO Solder - The basics of soldering, photo gallery
If you are trying to make any one of our Christmas DIYs including the ones below, you will need to learn to solder. Soldering is not really complicated, you just stick a little bit of Lead to the soldering tool and that’s pretty much it but here are some pictures to do it the “text-book” way. EPE Magazine has a good gallery and ... More
Cool Video - Brain Controlled Robot
View This Video on You Tube I’ve played golf with a guy who says the next generation of computers will be organic, he was some important guy of technology firm in Silicon Valley. Here’s something that’s very similar to that. Also see wikipedia’s organic computing. Researchers at the University of Washington have unveiled ... More
December 16, 2006
DIY HACK - Design your own robotic hand
Here’s a nice vector art CNC tutorial on robotic hand design by Ben! For today’s How-To we’re going to go through the process of designing a somewhat complex item that can be cut with a standard 3 axis homebuilt CNC machine: a jointed “robotic hand”. This requires several design methods drawn in multiple views, which ... More
December 15, 2006
Update: Bike POV Video
View This Video on You Tube Here’s the video for the Bike POV earlier. Nice “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year”, guys! (or girls) via hackedgadgets forum bike-pov, Circuits, Circuits, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Graphics, Graphics, Hack, Hack, hackedga ... More
December 14, 2006
Self parking lego mindstorms
View This Video on You Tube Nicely done parking job! It has got an ultrasonic sensor that detects the length of free spaces. Then, when it detects enough space, it makes the necessary movments to park. And when you say “GO!” it returns to the road via via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainme ... More
DIY HACK - Revive Nicad Batteries by Zapping with a Welder
View This Video on You Tube Wow, this is a cool HOWTO we didn’t know before… This could be useful for laptop batteries…nice! Nicad batteries often die in such a way that they won’t take a charge and have zero voltage. This usually means they’re shorted out by crystal dendrite growth. Here’s a method of bringin ... More
Neuroti-Kart - Homemade electric cart
View This Video on You Tube Here’s a cool homemade electric cart via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, homemade, homemade-electric-car, make, makezine, Motor, Motor, Travel, Travel, Zedomax ... More
December 13, 2006
Zedomax DIY123 - HOW TO make a Christmas LED wreath!
View This Video on You Tube We were thinking that we could make another last minute DIY for that uses a Ryobi FAN from Home Depot, high output LEDs, and an embedded computer. Although we have been spending way too much time making DIYs and not working, we are glad we did make a cool Christmas LED Wreath we are proud of. The video by the way di ... More
December 8, 2006
Zedomax DIY122 - HOW to Make a LED Christmas Tree!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out zedomax’s latest creation, LED Christmas Tree that also does POV. Links to article: LED Christmas HOWTO LED Christmas Picture Gallery wiki version christmas, christmas-led, christmas-tree, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, ... More
December 4, 2006
Computer Controlled Coffee Roasters via PID
Check out some of these cool coffee roasters via It seems like it’s controlled via a PID controller of some sort. Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, Hack, hackedgadgets, Motor, Motor, Zedomax ... More