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Arduino Hack - How to Read Wii Motion Plus with Arduino!

by max on June 23rd, 2009
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I just got my hands on the new Tiger Woods 2010 for the Wii, which comes with a Wii Motion Plus. Well, I have it sitting on my dining table but I guess someone found out how to read the data off the Wii Motion Plus. Great timing although I have no use for it. Ok so I, after much research, have been able to read the gyro data of the new wii motion plus peripheral with the arduino micr ...

Nintendo Hack - How to Convert your PowerGlove into a Wiimote-lik ...

by max on April 7th, 2009
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Do you remember when the first Nintendo PowerGlove came out? It was like the tightest game controller ever. Well, nowdays “nobody” uses a PowerGlove but here’s a guy who hacked it, added an accelerometer, and now functional just like a Wiimote, or maybe even better. Over the past month, I’ve done just that. I stripped the guts out of an original Power Glove, replace ...

DIY Air Suspension System for Tow Trucks!

by max on October 9th, 2008
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As a resident of San Francisco, I can say how much I hate tow trucks since they towed my car without warning. It just happens that tow trucks “wait” around parking lots to tow cars. Okay, that said, here’s a cool DIY air suspension system made for tow trucks, I hope it doesn’t make it to the market, I really don’t like technology improvements for tow truc ...

Robotic Dog Fetches the Ball!

by max on July 14th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Remember the Automatic Ball Throwing Machine for your dog? Well, get one of these Robotic Dogs and you will have a complete dog throwing/fetching automation. Why not? This robot uses an Acroname CMUcam2+ for its eye and an Acroname BrainStem GP 2.0 microcontroller for its brain. It chases down a b ...

DIY Duck Cam is a walking Polaroid Camera!

by max on July 3rd, 2008
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Check out this Duck Cam, a walking Polaroid camera that captures pictures and prints them out for ya. video after the jump. Therefore I am making a ‘Magical Image Digesting Duck’, by hacking digital camera, printer, vacuum cleaner, mp3 player and connecting them by a single microcontroller. The duck, Charlie travels to many tourists spots in New York City. The duck takes a ...

Evolux LED Lightbulbs let you control the Lumens!

by max on May 23rd, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Ha, this has to be the most technologically advanced light bulb that consumers can buy right now. It’s basically got LEDs and a microcontroller to control the whole schbang. EvoDim allows for maximum energy conservation by allowing the user to cycle the bulb through three different output set ...

DIY Homemade Gate Controller using Picaxe Microcontroller!

by max on May 15th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a fun little DIY homemade gate controller for all you DIYers! here are the gates i put in when we had are first child so she would not run out on the road i had this idea i would put motors on them this was not as easy as i thought i started with a 12v window motor with a rightangle d ...

DIY Phone Unlocking - Use Universal SIM Unlock Card

by max on May 7th, 2008
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Lol, this little Sim Unlock Card fits between your SIM card and the phone. There is even a microcontroller on the freakin’ thing, which probably does the unlocking job. It supposedly works for many phones as listed on the product site at usbfever.com. This SIM unlock is made of a very thin piece of FPC (0.10mm) with a Microcontroller mounted on, that goes between your Operator& ...

DIY - How to build your own G-Force Meter!

by max on April 27th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Remember I did a G-Force Meter couple years ago? Here’s another cool DIY G-Force meter. The only difference it that it uses 7-segment display and a PIC18F series microcontroller. After seeing so many applications using acceleromters making a simple project of my own with this cool sensor jus ...

Giant Volume Meter!

by max on March 4th, 2008
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Wow, check out this GIANT volume meter! So cool lookin’~ Looks like it’s some type of microcontroller with bunch of replays… Looks pretty simple to build… (the controls i mean) “Volumen”, a giant graphic equalizer built by Argentinian artist, Sergio Avello relays the ambient urban noise levels around the Redgaleria in Buenos Aires. Pretty intense ...