April 25, 2007
Wii HACK - Wiimote Door Unlocker
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool Wii HACK someone made that unlocks a door! It uses FreeBSD, some type of bluetooth device, and Wiimote to make it a complete system. I bet you can use less parts. Will someone hack one again soon? via Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consu ... More
April 24, 2007
Cool ROBOT - Servo Snake Bot!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This is sick! Check out the servo snakebot using an Atmel Atmega32 microcontroller and bunch of Futaba servos! You can see more videos of the snakebot here. The robot consists of nine cars connected with eight Futaba servos controlled by a microcontroller. A ... More
April 23, 2007
Maker Faire Showcase Video
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Cool, check out the Maker Faire Showcase video. Nice hat Phil! (Are you going to wear it at the faire?) Yes, make to check out Zedomax at Maker Faire. We will have live blogging where you can get yourself on Zedomax! We will have some fun stuff like USB Mouse Prank and USB Games. via Blog, Blog ... More
Motor DIY HACK - How to make a Homopolar Motor!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Oooh, check out this cool simple homopolar motor made with a standard AA battery, magnet, and some wires! If you want to check out some real industrial motor stuff, make sure to check out our DIY with some industrial steppers. via aa_battery, Circuits, Circu ... More
April 20, 2007
Garrett’s USB Mouse Prank Device
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. I was at work trying to draw some stuff and Garrett came over with his USB Hid Portal device and plugged it into my USB hub (which was annoying at first) then suddenly my mouse started making circles on its own! So we decided to call this the USB Mouse Prank Device… There’s really no ho ... More
April 18, 2007
DIY HACK - Deer Repellent
Here’s a cool Deer Repellent for those of you with deers on your front yard that eat up your plants. But just turn it off on Christmas so Rudolph the Raindeer doesn’t get scared. My original “Deer Repellent/ Seismic Sensor” recommended using a speaker with a weight glued to the cone as a vibration sensor (see bottom of ... More
April 16, 2007
DIY Circuit HACK - Moon Clock
A lot of Asian cultures still use the moon clock for calculating their birthdays. For whatever reason, our family still cannot figure out my mom’s birthday as it was originally recorded as a Moon day… Well we could figure it out using some moon calculators… Anyways, check out the moon caclulator here. Despite the hour hand onl ... More
April 14, 2007
DIY CELLPHONE HACK - Receive police transmissions!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This is got to be a joke… Blog, blogging, Blogs, build, cell phones, cell-phones, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, Hack, ... More
Silicon Valley Electronics Fleamarket
I went to the Silicon Valley Electronics Fleamarket in San Jose this morning. It was great, I wanted to buy everything! I was too busy looking at all the cool stuff to actually buy much. I’m definitely going to this every time they have it…next one is May 12th, 5am to noon. Here’s a Flickr photoset with some pictures and comm ... More
April 13, 2007
DIY PC CASE MOD - CompuBeaver
Check out the CompuBeaver, a PC that does looks like a Beaver made out of a taxidermy beaver! This is funny: (I feel bad for the beaver though…poor animal) Because the inside was foam, I needed more internal structure and decided to fiberglass it. As awful as fiberglass is to deal with, it sure is strong stuff, and would allow drilling, e ... More
April 11, 2007
DIY Circuit HACK - How to build An inexpensive Hall effect Gaussmeter!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Oh, check out this cool DIY on how to build an inexpensive Hall Effect Gaussmeter! If you don’t want to build one, you can always buy a gaussmeter here. Have you ever wanted to find out how strong a magnet really was, or how the strength of the magneti ... More
April 10, 2007
DIY HACK - Sound Trigger Circuit for High Speed Photography
Wow, check out this cool sound trigger circuit DIY for High Speed Photography! The general use is quite simple: setup a noisy event to trigger the flash. Since I am using the Sigma EF-500 Flash, which have an internal “dumb slave”, I activate a led to tell the flash when to fire. A more general solution can be found here. he circuit ... More
April 9, 2007
DIY UNDERWATER HACK - Shark Cam
Check out this cool DIY on making a submersible shark camera! I’ve never gone shark fishing, well I don’t fish anything I can’t eat and big sharks don’t look like they would taste good. (But I like Tuna and all the other cool edible fish in the big ocean…) Here’s a cool cheap way to make a submersible cam ... More
April 7, 2007
DIY HACK - Double the battery life
Check out this howto on doubling your battery life by replacing a linear voltage regulator (the thing that converts DC voltage, e.g. from 12V to 5V) to a switching regulator. Switching regulators are way more efficient than your typical off-the-shelve crappy regulators such as 7805 which get too hot too fast. Get the Dimension Engineering regul ... More
DIY - How to Collect Hydrogen and Oxygen!
Here’s a cool instructable on how to collect some hydrogen and oxygen! In this instructable I’ll give you a simple way to collect Hydrogen gas and if you want also, to collect Oxygen. Depending on the voltage and current that you use for the project this could be hazardous. I used a 14.4 volt power drill battery pack for the process bu ... More
April 6, 2007
DIY HACK - How to add LEDs to your CAR interior switches!
Check out this cool DIY on adding LEDs to your car interior switches. Although the instructions are in another language, I think you get the idea here… via glay0322 amd, Auto, Auto, Blog, Blogs, car_interior, chips, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, crack, daum, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, ... More