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April 13, 2007

Brass Lion Robot Poster!

Check out this cool concept robot!  You can get a large poster size for about 40 bucks. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel himself, the Brass Lion was a marvel even in the impetus of the industrial revolution. Vaulting into true international fame when a single Brass Lion saved the charge of the light brigade in the Crimean war when one smashe ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Gadgets, Robots, photography by max on the April 13th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
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April 12, 2007

DIY MIDI HACK - Monome Controller

Here’s a cool midi Monome Controller DIY that simply looks really awesome! With bunch of parts flying in from everywhere including a handmilled enclosure from ebay, this is a great DIY for anyone interested in building some cool custom MIDI controllers. immediately started searching for lighted push button switches. Eight weeks later, I ha ... More

Posted in Audio, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Hack, Projects by max on the April 12th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
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Hover Bot Arena Flash Game

Check out the Hover Bot Arena Flash game if you are bored. Use arrows to move and your mouse to shoot at other hover-bots! Cool game… amd, Blog, Blogs, bored, chips, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, crack, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Entertainment, 로봇, Games, Games, Hack, hackers, hacks, home-pc, hover-bot, hover-bot- ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Entertainment, Games, Online Games, Web by max on the April 12th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
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DIY LINUX HACK - XEYES

If you use Linux, you know Xeyes is a simple program that follows your mouse movements. You can check out some web examples of Xeyes. You can even paste this javascript code on your website for Xeyes on the web. Anyway, Hunz created physical Xeyes that stands on his window and follow people’s walking movements. Tight! We want one. The ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Hack, Linux, Microcontroller, Motor, Projects, Ubuntu by max on the April 12th, 2007 at 11:40 am
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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

Posted in Circuits, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Hack, Microcontroller, Projects by max on the April 11th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
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DIY MP3 HACK - How to make your own MP3 Player!

    (Above: Funny MP3 players made with the Motz) Check out this Motz Music Box which is a very small MP3 Player you can embed in anything pretty much. Too bad it only has 256MB of memory and no LCD display. Check out the Nut MP3 player RedFerret made. Ha! You can even get a ready-made wooden box for the Motz MP3 too! It’s ... More

Posted in Audio, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Hack, Projects, mp3 by max on the April 11th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
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Retro-lookin’ robots!

Check out some of these cool retro-lookin’ robots. Although they don’t really seem all that functional, they kinda have the cool “retro” look to them. amd, Blog, Blogs, chips, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, crack, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, 로봇, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, hackers, hacks, home-pc, intel, machine, ma ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Gadgets, Robots, photography by max on the April 11th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
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April 10, 2007

Color Changing Showers!

Wow, check out these color changing shower heads! It seems pretty basic (probably just high intensity LEDs on top), regardless, we like the overall design and originality! I’d love to have one of these showers, it’d be really cool… (well, maybe we can hack one easy…) Perfect for creating a dramatic accent color, or mere ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Entertainment, Gadgets, Graphics, Industrial, Shows, magic by max on the April 10th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
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Cleaning Robot from Japan that even apologizes

Check out this really cool robot that will even apologize to you if he/she bumps into you! This cleaning robot from Japan can scoot around on its own, cleaning up, and features WiFi and a video camera to keep it connected to home base. It can even apologize when it detects that it’s bumped into a person. Yes, that’s good; train the rob ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Gadgets, Robots by max on the April 10th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
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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

Posted in Audio, Circuits, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Energy, Entertainment, Gadgets, Hack, Projects, photography by max on the April 10th, 2007 at 8:51 am
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Tofu Robot from Japan!

Check out the hilarious tofu robot. The original pictures of the tofu robots are on Flickr too. Although it’s non-functional, you can get it at spicybrown for $20. Maybe someone can hack this tofu robot to be functional… maybe serve up some tofu soup…(talking about tofu soup, there’s tofu sauce, tofu seasoning, tofu se ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Entertainment, Funny, Gadgets, Robots by max on the April 10th, 2007 at 5:24 am
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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

Posted in Circuits, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Earth, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Hack, Industrial, Projects, Video by max on the April 9th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
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DIY HACK - AVR Ethernet Weather Station

Wow, check out this cool AVR ethernet weather station! My original plan was to have sensors for temperature, air pressure and wind. I started a prototype and it worked very well except for the wind measurement part. I have written a separate article about it: wind-vane-ver01.shtml. I plan to improve the wind measurement hardwa ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Earth, Educational, Energy, Entertainment, Gadgets, Hack, Industrial, Microcontroller, Projects by max on the April 9th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
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Google bought the WHOLE country!

Google buys a European country Luxemburg for 37 billion dollars! Wow, I wonder what country they will be buying next. Well, eventually a lot of small countries will have to be renamed to Googleburg, Googlece, Googland, Googrea, Googpan, Googmerica…  This is much greater than Google buying a search algorithm from an Israeli student. This i ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Government, Web by max on the April 9th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
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Technological Breakthrough Sculptures

Check out some of these really cool Terminator-like technological breakthrough sculptures. Although none of them are really functional, it’s a really great artwork… (I’d want one in my livingroom…) Actually, the bug robots seem like they can do stuff… via microbotic amd, artwork, Blog, Blogs, chips, Consumer, C ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Educational, Entertainment, Graphics, Hack, Industrial, Robots, photography by max on the April 9th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
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David Copperfield makes Statue of Liberty Disappear!

Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This is very old but cool! amd, Blog, Blogs, chips, Consumer, Consumer, crack, david-copperfield, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Hack, hackers, hacks, home-pc, intel, machine, magic, magic, make, metacafe, nintendo, password, pc, Sony, statue_of_liberty, Video, ... More

Posted in Consumer, Video, magic by max on the April 9th, 2007 at 10:03 am
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