Do you really need to kill your neighbors dog (or cat)? I am just joking but here’s how to make a paintball machine gun turret to relive your past-WW-II experiences (without killing people). Okay, just read if you are interested.
This paintball turret system has the ability to be configured as a wired or wireless platform and we have even built it in a way to be portable for rapid backpack style deployments controlled with heads up displays up to a half mile a
Here’s a funny design for a doorbell, an Enter Key Doorbell straight off a regular keyboard. (or is it a MAC?)
Created by Li Jianye, this doorbell takes its inspiration from one of the most famous keyboard keys ever – “Enter”.
via ubergizmo, Design Page
video://www.metacafe.com/watch/1651655/toilet_paper_launcher/
Kip Kay from Makezine shows you how to hack a “Toilet Paper Launcher”.
Of course, this is probably illegal if you launch TPs at your neighbors house but it might be a great way to cover your friend’s house with lots of Toilet Paper at graduation or his/her birthday.
via make
video://www.metacafe.com/watch/686548/how_make_a_dangerous_blow_pipe/
Here’s something you can make to torture your neighbors. Well…j.k.
Imagine there is a famine and you are back to the hunter-gatherer times. If worst comes to worst and you need to catch a rabbit, a rat or anything that is digestable or anything that has to be hunted, you will need a weapon to serve you under those harsh conditions.
We started experimenting with “row/column scanning”. This term refers to how the columns of shared anodes(+) and rows of shared cathodes(-) in an LED matrix can be quickly turned on and off to control a single LED within the matrix. Because the number of LEDs with in a matrix will always be fewer than the total number of rows and columns, it is more efficient to quickly address the columns and rows than each individual LED. We first soldered a 4×4 matrix
