If you have a pool why not spend the winter months building something to enjoy in the warmer months? Have a look at this pool project for some inspiration. “This is a solar powered microcontroller driven pool fountain. It was designed to provide an entertaining, pleasant visual and audible water effect in a cordless low-maintenance device. Hardware: The basic hardware design has the following features: – Low-voltage battery powered –
This is my own personal mod, it’s simple to make, and it looks great. Great addition to my other individualistic geeky items :] ** Before you take part in this modification, please be aware that you are using an AC house current to power the light bulb, AC can kill. So please, for all of us at Hacked Gadgets, be careful** Materials: 1) 60 Watt light bulb (other wattages can
Want your very own robot to learn to do your job? Sylvain Calinon and Aude Billard from the Autonomous Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have made great strides to make that dream happen. Additional information. Read a paper on their research. (PDF) “This video shows how a humanoid robot can learn incrementally new skills by interacting with a human instructor. By using active teaching methods that
Looking for a cool science fair project? Forget the exploding volcano, check out this Articulated Hand project! “My niece Sydney needed help for a 7th grade Science Fair project. I helped another friend’s daughter (Kaitlin) build an articulated hand for a project in the past and suggested we resurrect the project. The build is fun for the kids and I wanted to try some enhancements on the original idea. Materials:
Congratulation to the last contest winner. Last short contest of 2007! No emails this time, simply reply in the comments what this device isn’t. 🙂 Make it funny, crazy, weird… Just use your imagination. With a short vote the best comment will win the prize. The prize this week will be another one of those cool tiny helicopters. This contest will run from Saturday to Wednesday (December 29, 2007 –
Less than a week left to enter the Hacked Gadgets Happy Holidays Contest. This year we are giving away a $75 gift certificate to Think Geek! Contest entry is simple so why not try your luck. 🙂
There was a time when NASA Tech Briefs was required reading in every cube farm. Subjects from agriculture to zoology where covered and some times in a light hearted way. Well now NASA sponsors the “Create the Future Design Contest”. Not only does every entrant get a tee shirt, they can also earn $250 if their entry is one of the most viewed. One of my favorite entries is the
