November 9, 2007
3-Axis servo motor drawing “HackADay”
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s the video if you can’t see it. (some kinda YouTube bug…yes blame it on the big company) Cool, check out this awesome 3-Axis servo motor drawing “HackADay”. You can get the board for really cheap from this guy. The preprog ... More
November 7, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO make your own 360 panoramic photo-bot
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out this instructable on HOWTO make your own 360 degrees panoramic photo-bot! this is my 360 panoramic photo robot, the idea is shooting in 360 degrees in the smaller time as possible without errors, take the panoramic in a hard conditions and fun!. t ... More
November 6, 2007
Check out your computers performance
This is a great device, especially if you love computers and cars as this will give you the feel of driving a high performance sports car, will being at work, sounds good to me. Yet it may not be as spectacular as you would initially feel, the device gives you a read out of the computers wattage, temperature and fan speed, but not all at once, th ... More
November 5, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO convert an Arduino into AVR chip programming hardware for use with AVRDude
Into AVR chip programming? Check out how you can convert an Arduino into an AVR chip programming hardware for use with AVRDude! By the way, AVR is microcontrollers from Atmel. Check out AVRFreaks for good AVR info. (Thanks David for the tip! ) I ported the Atmel AVR910 In System Programmer protocol to the Arduino. Now I can write programs to my ... More
November 4, 2007
Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this cool RGB LED Tick-Tack-Toe! via HackedGadgets Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, hackedgadgets, LED, LED, Projects, Projects ... More
October 23, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO make a fiber optic rose!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, here’s a great DIY video on making your own custom fiber optic rose! Using a few LEDs and really cheap fiber optics, I made this dead sexy, illuminated fiber optic rose. via HackedGadgets Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, custom_fi ... More
Robot Video - Face Tracking Hexapod Robot
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this tight ass hexapod robot from MicroMagic systems! Very cute. The hexapod was my fourth generation robot, and took around 2 weeks to build, the hexapod locomotion engine has been developed on and off over a couple of years. The face recognition sof ... More
October 19, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO build an LED Hat!
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 Check out this awesome LED Hat you can make for Halloween! There’s some construction notes that you can refer to build one yourself. I think this was originally becau ... More
CircuitScout - Your circuit diagram search engine
Cool, check out CircuitScout next time you are trying to find that circuit for your next project. I looked up “Alarm System” and got some pretty decent results. (Much better than google for circuits) Thanks Jerry for the tip! alarm_system, Circuits, Circuits, Computer, Computer, Consumer, Consumer, decent_results, DoItYourself! ... More
October 14, 2007
DIY - Steam Punk Computer That gives you beer!
Check this Steam Punk Computer that serves you fresh beer from Russia! Looks like Russians can turn an ordinary home computer into almost everything. For example, looks like this one can fill your mug with a fresh beer. Though actually nobody can tell how this weird thing works. via Circuits, Circuits, Computer, Computer, Consumer, Consumer, ... More
October 9, 2007
DIY HACK - How to make your own Cool LED Lamp Art
Check out this really really simple DIY on how to make your own Cool LED Lamp Art using LEDs, acrylic glass, and some creativity. LED of LED The lights are approximately twenty times the scale of an actual LED bulb. Not only does the product show the beauty of the LED structure, but it also creates a special visual effect on the ceiling, 12 LED bu ... More
October 7, 2007
Wii DIY HACK - Control music on your PC with the Wiimote
Yes, you can control music on your PC with your Wiimote if you get really really bored… This app allows users to use their Wiimote to control iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, and Napster. It offers many functions, such as Play/Pause, Next/Prev track, Volume Up/Down. Any function can be mapped to any button. Plus the motion sensing is us ... More
Wii DIY HACK - Using your Wiimote to measure your car’s acceleration!
Although this is an awesome Wii hack using GlovePie and the Wiimote, you could probably do this a lot easier using a simple 3-axis accelerometer and a microcontroller. I got this idea after seeing some physics class use the wiimote in some kinda pendulum experiment. Why not use the wiimote’s built in 3-axis accelerometers to measue g-forces, ... More
October 4, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO build An Internet Controlled Security Robot with GPS!
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 Looks like Shelto has been updating his internet robot project from couple months ago. Check out this cool internet controlled security robots made with some CUBLOC PLCs an ... More
October 3, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO sense Squeeze!
Ohhh….. here’s a really cool DIY HACK that can sense your squeeze. (This might be good for making an adult-related game…then again…) I’m researching squeeze sensing as a mode of tactile interface. Here I will cover the process of developing a squeezeable sensor and the firmware/software concerns associated with interpre ... More
iPhone DIY HACK - iFlash, External Flash for the iPhone
Here’s a way you can hack the ports on your iPhone and add some LED joys to your life! When the iPhone’s initial specs were released by Apple, tons of users complained about its lack of a camera flash. Using a USB connector, 4 white LED’s, and a tact switch, I built a removable flash unit. via iphonexe Apple, Audio, Audio, camera_flash ... More
September 30, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO make a GIANT, BRIGHT LED!
You guys are going to love this giant LED. It almost seems like there’s a LOT of circuit on it. (It that necessary?) Anyways, thumbs up for this cool giant LED. I wish they had a video on it… This project is 6″ seven-segment.All segments consist of fourteen 5mm super bright LEDs except dot segment it use only 4 LEDs.I design ... More
September 28, 2007
PIC Microcontroller Touch Keypad
Need a touch Keypad instead of the traditional 4×4 keypads? This might be the way to go. The actual data from the touch sensors is quite erratic and requires some software processing. Basically you create a pulse for each of the ports and read the data with the instruction following the pulse signlal rise. Then read the ports the same way ... More
DIY HACK - HOWTO extend your Wifi Antenna by 2-3 times!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, this is a cool wifi antenna hack. I knew it, those wifi companies were just selling us bunk extended Antennas just so they can charge $30 more… via antenna-hack, antennas, Circu