January 18, 2008
Gamer Tries to Build Nuclear Reactor at Home, FBI Came Around to Play
Cool, this guy’s on TV for tryin’ to build a nuclear reactor. Too bad he didn’t have a SiteHoppin.com shirt on… :p Apparently bored of his amateur game-building hobby, he decided to try to make a small-scale nuclear reaction in his room, blogging his antics on the web. Someone blew the whistle on him when he made claims ab ... More
January 15, 2008
SiteHoppin’ Entrecard Tech Blogs - Microcontroller AVR Oscilloscope
I’ve summed up all the tech blog on Entrecard on SiteHoppin so you can use the following link to “site hop” tech blogs: http://SiteHoppin.com/Special:Random?tags=entrecard-tech&mode=2 We will be doing a special, “Site Hoppin’” through all Entrecard tech blogs and (hopefully) get an interesting post per each ... More
January 14, 2008
The Smoking Jacket
Here’s a funky “smoking jacket” you can wear to find out how it’s affecting your lungs. Personally, I do not want to find out but it’s cool that there’s a jacket like it. I wonder if it works on the other smoking stuff too… The Smoking Jacket allows a smoker to blow cigarette smoke into a valve in the co ... More
DIY HACK - HOWTO build a “Fire Alarm” Alarm Clock
Wow, this has to be the loudest and best solution for you doozers. Ever sleep-in because your alarm clock wasn’t loud enough? With this design that is guaranteed not to happen! This hack takes a standard cheap alarm clock, some interface components and a fire alarm bell to get the job done right. Normally these small alarm clocks use a piezo buz ... More
January 7, 2008
CES 2008 - Bill Gates Interview
Check out the interview with Bill Gates on SiteHoppin. Interesting. In the first segment of our Bill Gates CES 2008 interview, we asked the difference between Apple’s approach and Microsoft’s approach when it comes to product releases. Apple steers clear of products that might be iffy in their first iteration—portable music rentals; ... More
December 19, 2007
DIY - Dirty Tricks to Double your Traffic and talk trash all day long
If you have noticed our post about how to be a moron and learn to not be rich, that WAS a big joke so go check out Can’t Get Rich and learn how to double your traffic by collaborating on a “set” blog-fight and talking trash all day long to bring more traffic. BTW, Geoff, that was a lot of fun. Let’s do another one soon. W ... More
December 10, 2007
DIY - HOWTO Convert your Doc files to PDF for free using GoogleDocs
With all the craze with Google whatever, here’s another useful Google tool you can use if you haven’t yet. Try out the GoogleDocs where you can convert almost anything to and from anything including your Word document to PDF. Google will probably take over Microsoft one day in this arena. I am rooting for Google even though they are g ... More
December 3, 2007
DIY Linux DoS HACK - HOWTO Limit your the max number of TCP connections to your Web Server!
I have been reading the following book called, Linux Server Hacks, which shows you many ways you can hack your Linux server so your server doesn’t die. This actually works since we just had a DoS attack about 5 minutes ago. (It seems like we are getting more and more DoS attacks these days. You can refer to the DDOS Deflate script also) He ... More
Google SketchUp for Dummies book!
OOhh.. check out this Google SketchUp for Dummies book. It might be the perfect free 3D tool you were looking for last month. Remember when your high school English teacher explained that every word in the sentences you write needs to carry some meaning? While the rest of us missed that point, Aidan Chopra was paying attention. Google Sketchup ... More
November 23, 2007
DIY HACK - HOW TO Control an Arduino remotely with your browser!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This is kinda cool way to control an LCD hooked up to Ardunino with browsers including your mobile phone. In conclusion, this code may be pretty ragged, but the concept is what is important and it should be enough to get you started. You obviously can’t do any ... More
November 22, 2007
Complete set of office tools
This is a great little gift or office set, when it is a solid one piece item it is easily storable and yet when taken apart there are a whole hose of hand office tools inside: These include a stapler, pencil sharpener, staple remover, sticky note and paperclip holder, calculator, and a digital alarm clock. It can be stored away in a desk drawer, ... More
November 14, 2007
LEGO NXT Fireworks Robot
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Cool, someone made a Lego NXT Fireworks Robot! This autonomous NXT robot will light multiple fireworks in a sequence - while the family sits back and watch the display!! It uses a MINDSTORMS NXT, two light sensors (one for navigation and other to detect a lighte ... More
DIY HACK - HOWTO make some sounds with Arduino!
So, you want to make some sounds with the Arduino you just bought last Friday? Check out uCHobby as they show you how to do some basic stuff with sound and Arduino including how to make “Hello World” sound using a PC speaker. This is the second in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The first article co ... More
November 12, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO make a Christmas Tree Projector!
If you ever need to prepare for Christmas this year and you DON’T want to bring a real Christmas tree into your house, you can prepare yourself right by making one of theses Christmas Tree Projectors! (Warning, your cat or dog might think it’s real…) This device, projects an image of a Christmas tree onto the wall. The size of ... More
November 9, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO hack an industrial sewing machine!
Looks like Lady Ladyada hacked an industrial sewing machine. Definitely check it out. Unlike little portables which turn on the DC motor when the foot-lever is pressed, industrials use a clutch motor. The motor is running the moment you turn it on, and when the foot-lever is pressed, it moves the clutch towards the motor, engaging it. This means ... More
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 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