Check out Harrison Krix who spent the last 17 months building this fully-functional DIY Daft Punk Helmet. This is the most awesome DIY project I’ve probably seen for the last 17 months with every gory detail mastered to perfection. This would be the ultimate helmet to wear to a rave concert.
Here’s a time-lapse video of the DIY Daft Punk Helmet in the making:
I’ve spent a lot of time at my previous company Comfile building ethernet-enabled devices, which is one of my favorite projects of all time (you can see some of my previous projects after this article at the bottom).
Anyways, Odvratno Zgodan has made a really cool device, it’s an ethernet-enabled DIY Arduino CandyGrabber, which works off Adobe AIR, PHP socket, Red5 server to allow anyone to control his CandyGrabber of the internet. You can try it out yourself here at pimedius.com.
This could be very helpf
Here’s a genius idea for those of you guys with dogs so you won’t ever have to fill their water dish again in your life, perhaps just clean it once in awhile. It’s an auto-filling dog dish machine that will recognize when your dog’s water dish is empty and fill it precisely to the top. The system uses pretty simple schematics and Arduino so anyone with decent circuit skills should build something similar easily as schematics is provided.
My friend by the way has 5 dogs, this could save a ton of
You know kids love playing in a blanket with flashlights, at least I remember doing so playing ghost and monster all night long. Well, what if you can add some LEDs to a quilted blanket? This would make some awesome present for your kids or perhaps a good blanket to carry with you in the dark.
How to make this LED blanket? Check out the video of the LED blank below then hit up the source link for all godly-details on how to make your own LED blanket.
Just when you thought you’ve packed everything including diapers, baby cream, and baby wipes, you happen to be at the mall with your baby and realize (and scream) you forgot diapers!!!
For those of you who have this problem often, you can build yourself a DIY digital diaper bag that tells you if you’ve missed something BEFORE you go out.
This is a great idea, perhaps they can make a retail version of it.
Simply punching a punching bag for hours on the end probably won’t get you better at boxing or any other martial arts. But here’s an incredible DIY punching bag training device that teaches you to punch at different point. It’s very similar to pointing a laser for your cat to chase but believe me, as a black belt in Tae Kwon Do myself, I can appreciate such a great training device.
I just wonder if companies will get ideas from this and make some better punching bags.
For those of you who are interested in building your servo-electric guitars, take a look at this awesome single-string servo-electric guitar using Arduino and servo motors.
A guitar string synthesizer driven by a midi channel to play a rock version of the Japanese folk song Sakura (with background midi accompaniment). The design is described in more detail at the servoelectricguitar
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwVoir5HSo4&feature=player_embedded
These guys over at Yelp.com crack me up, they just built this awesome DIY iPad-controlled beer keg that keeps track of everyone who drank beer and also lets each Yelper to rate the beer.
To use, you will need an RFID card that will allow you to drink the beer. That’s not all though, there’s also a desktop module that let you check the status of the keg (yup, so they never go dry).
Really a cool project they did here, now everyone should go work at Yelp.
Sensors attached
Tired of fighting your brother or sister for the control of the TV remote control? Do not worry as your revenge is finally here, you can build yourself one of these nifty DIY Infrared IR Jammers, which will pretty much make any TV remote control come to a screeching halt and your family members won’t know why their remote is so broke.
The IR Jammer is a fun project that provides a bit of safe, non-destructive fun. The Infrared Remote Control Jammer allows you to render all IR remot
For those of you who want to explore the world of making your own rocket launchers with a digital controller, you might want to take a look here where the author makes a simple rocket launcher using Arduino. This could also be great for fireworks controllers. And yeah, did you hear? Several people lost their limbs during July 4th Independence Day, this is why someone needs to start selling digital controllers perhaps made out of Arduino.
