This door would be good up here in Canada to keep the cold out. I think they have to get a few bugs worked out though so that people don’t bang their head when walking through… Easy solution would be to make hard hat wearing manditory at your house 🙂 “Those inventors in Japan cooked up another good one. A door which opens according to the shape of the individual,
Tired of spending big money every time you want to launch a rocket. Buy your rocket fuel at 7-Eleven next time, that’s what James Yawn did. Apparently Pixy Stix make good rocket fuel, if you are skeptical as I was have a look at the videos! Sugar Rocket Launch 1 Sugar Rocket Launch 2 Sugar Rocket Launch 3 Sugar Motor Test Snickers Bar and Potassium Nitrate Burn Test “Airframe is
If you want to have more fun with your Roomba check this out! “RoombaMidi has the following features: – provides GUI interface to controlling Roomba (MIDI not required) – acts as normal MIDI interface to any MIDI application – supports up to 16 Roombas, one per MIDI channel. – responds to MIDI notes 32-127 as tones on Roomba beeper, – MIDI notes 32-127 play corresponding pitch, velocity is duration
If you like playing with sounds you will love the NoizBox. Listen to the audio clip of it in action. If you want to make your own Seb has provided the schematic, parts list and code for the PIC microcontroller on his site. “The stripboard ‘touchpad’ on the right of the right panel was added to give some fingertip control over the second modulation source depth and frequency. The top
If you are looking for a new shirt that stands out, I can’t think of a better one than this one. “The new FlashWear T-Shirts are operated via 2 x AAA batteries (not included). Batteries will last for approximately 12 hours and can be replaced. Each FlashWear Flashing T-Shirt has a small hidden pocket inside where the battery compartment is located. The battery pack contains a small on/off button as
You might remember some of the crazy watches that have been posted on Hacked Gadgets before. There was the $200,000 Cabestan Watch, the Talus watch and the Stanley construction watches. TechEBlog has a top ten list of crazy watches ranging from an Ultra Violet watch to a Morse Code watch. The only watch that I think could be added to the list is the Nixie watch. “Watches can be used
This is a nice simple sound meter indicator. Small enough to build directly onto a perf board and all of the components are quite common which will keep the build cost down. “This project uses an LM3915 bar-graph IC driving two sets of ten LEDs for a 30dB range. The circuit is unique because it has an additional range of 20dB provided by an automatic gain control to allow it
