May 19, 2007
Live Blogging - Zedomax Booth at Maker Faire
Hey we are live at the Maker Faire, blogging live! See our automated camera that follows people? Well, it’s a $160 Logitech camera we got in a hurry at Best Buy last night just before the store closed. Glad we got it working although the internet here sucks sometimes. Anyway, our booth is really popular! Garrett is doing a great job ... More
Maker Faire Live Webcam Video
Hi there, we are at the Maker Faire! I got hands on one of automatic webcams that follow people. Check it out! It took me awhile to hook up some internet. For some reason, I couldn’t hook up to the free internet here. BUT I got my Sprint Samsung IP-830W to work as a cellular modem. Hopefully, the live videos stream good on it. (My phon ... More
May 18, 2007
Pen with laser pointer
The laser pointer has finally made it to the big time, because this black ink pen has a built in laser pointer which is not just a red dot, it actually gives you the time, in big red numbers that can be projected on almost anything that you want, the wall, ceiling or literally just anywhere. At first this would appear fairly pointless, but when w ... More
May 16, 2007
DIY HACK - Wireless Keyless Entry using Relays
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a very simple wireless keyless entry DIY using some relays and stuff, very similar to the Wiimote Door Unlocker. The mechanism is simple enough, just a momentary button on the panel in my apartment, but the mess of wires in the wall is a little un ... More
May 15, 2007
DIY HACK - HOW TO make a Rotating LCD!
Wow, check out this cool DIY on how to make a rotating LCD! This IS very useful for reading PDFs and whatnot. If you don’t want to make one or you are about buy a new LCD, there’s also bunch of LCDs out there that already rotates. (which I use at work) CNET has a great review of rotating LCDs. This fixture is very usefull for rotate ... More
Steam turbine tank!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Cool, we are looking forward to Maker Faire for cool steam tanks like this! So what do you do after you’ve made a bunch of steam powered r/c tanks? Well you try making a steam turbine tank of course! Making a steam turbine r/c machine has sort of been one ... More
May 14, 2007
DIY HACK - Supercharged Airplane
Check out this cool supercharged airplane you can make in your free time! The single-sheet paper airplanes you made when you were a kid (or perhaps last week in your cubicle) were, well, kid stuff compared to this beefed-up paper craft, which uses an electric motor from an old pager or toy powered by a big electrolytic capacitor. Known as a ... More
Sustainable Skyscrapers
Erin joins our new Blog network site, Keetsa! Blog, which is a new blog about eco-friendly and green. Well, here’s a cool post she wrote about the sustainable skyscrapers, similar to previous post on the Rotating Towers to be built in Dubai. On the side note, can you believe it? I went from hacking gadgets and embedded devices to selling ... More
May 13, 2007
Eco-design - rotating towers that can power itself
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out these rotating towers that can power itself! While the technical details of the wind-power system are sketchy at best, the architect, David Fisher, claims that the tower could power itself and ten other similar sized buildings. Frankly, the cl ... More
May 12, 2007
ThinkGeek’s Magic Numbers T-shirt
Cool, ThinkGeek’s got their magic numbers going too! Very clever. Hmm…. I wonder what comes after bf…c0??? via boingboing More 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0? 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0, bf, boingboing, Business, Business, c0, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Ente ... More
May 11, 2007
DIY Thumb Pianos!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out some of these really cool DIY Thumb Pianos! Sometimes an instrument you know can become something else altogether. Bob Collier has been constructing his own thumb pianos, adding amplification, effects, self-sampling features, and novel cases in ... More
Funny Escalator
After work, instead of taking the usual elevator, stairs, or escalator, you can simply slide down the Funny Escalator and save some time too. If we ever get a chance to build our own building, this would definitely be one of the features. But you’d probably need to pay a lot of money for insuring it. via picture-mania.blogspot blogspo ... More
DIY USB HACK - Unlocking USB Disk Drives
Here’s a cool USB disk drive hack that shows you how to bypass the password retries with 1 wire and tips to getting started with cracking the actual password. This shows how vulnerable those USB disk drives are in the hands of smart hackers. The package seems to be made of black velvet, and there’s a nice keychain hidden in a compar ... More
DIY Podcast Studio - iPod Nano Podcast Plug-in
Are you into Podcasting and iPod Nanos? Here’s a device that turns your iPod into a recording studio. (maybe we will get one…) The MicroMemo clips onto your 2G Nano and turns it into a hi-fi recording device. It comes with a microphone, but also has line-in and a mic socket so you can rip CDs or mix down from a whole studio setup. T ... More
May 10, 2007
Eco Friendly Grass Armchair
Do you need a cool grass chair? Check out this cool eco-friendly grass armchair you can get and grow grass on it. TERRA by Nucleo. Grass armchair for outdoor use. Die cut cardboard pieces fit together to make the form of an armchair. Fill and cover with dirt, spinkle with grass seeds and water. Grass seeds not included. Assembly required [via] Ke ... More
DIY - How to Turn a T-shirt into a sexy girl’s shirt
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This is really cool. I think I am going to make a couple of these for my gf. Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, crafty, DIY-How-to-Turn-a-T-shirt-into-a-sexy-girls-shirt, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Enter ... More
Automatic Color Sorting
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Check out this Automatic Color Sorting DIY that uses some DC and stepper motors from an old HP printer and uses Parallax’s new 32bit processor as the brain. Brilliant! This could be great to low budget project requiring color sorting. Once the Sensor was figured out I started to build ... More
May 9, 2007
HOW memory foam mattresses are made!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s an inside look into how memory foam mattresses are made! Take a look at the memory foam before they are cut into actual mattress sizes. They look like giant tofu! Without the subtitles, you’d think they are making some giant tofu or bread. vi ... More
World Energy Movement - Do not buy Gas on May 15th and lower gas prices!!!
I’ve been getting several of these messages today, so I figured I mig