Using an old serial GPS the guys as Semifluid have made a home made GPS data logger on the cheap. As usual schematics and directions are on the site. “This project focused on creating a simple serial data logger for the Delorme Tripmate (also known as the GPSTripmate). The Tripmate is an older GPS receiver that can be purchased on eBay for
John Carter made a nice AV fan controller for an audio/video cabinet. There is code and a diagram of the design on John’s site. This project uses the PIC AXE microcontroller, if you want to play with some of these chips I hear that Peter Anderson is a great resource with cheap shipping. “This is a fan controller for an audio/video cabinet. It uses a PICAXE 08M and a DS18B20
Looking for a UV LED project? Tool Using Animal takes an ordinary flashlight and turns it into a cool UV flashlight! “Danger Will Robinson, This is a UV mod for my beloved harbor freight flashlight So here comes the disclaimers. UV is dangerous, it’ll give you cancer, cataracts, and steal your check book, if you build this, You Will Die!! Although probably your death will not be related to this
Once the full scale version of this car is made all it will need is a paint ball gun to keep the bad guys away! “Build a security robot that can be controlled and viewed over the internet. The planned final version will be a kids 48” electric car with a network camera attached. 1/4 Scale Trial Version: I opted to try this out with a $20 RC car from
Not a simple project, but it goes to show what can be created with old computer parts that most people toss in the garbage. “The basic principle of Three Blind Mice is to run three threads round three rollers from old mechanical mice. By using the mouse reports to calculate the length of the extended thread this allows the position where all the threads join to be calculated. First job
Combine a microwave, a grape and some science, shake well and have fun! Hacked Gadget reader Bladel sent in a few links to some videos they made of a similar experiment. They placed a candle under a glass in the microwave for some similar action. “Take a seedless grape and slice it lengthwise, making sure (this part is important) not to cut all the way through, so you leave
It takes lots of work to mod the Xbox 360 to act like a Wiimote. 🙂 This Xbox 360 Tilt Controller reminds me of the this project. Great job! I look forward to the next hack… “After wanting to play around with an accelerometer for a long time, I finally thought of an idea that would warrant me purchasing one, modifying an Xbox 360 controller to make one of
