Congratulation to Jim who was the winner last week. The prizes this week will be extra special because of the milestone that Hacked Gadgets has surpassed! It is our way of saying thanks. 🙂 There will be thirteen winners this time of the following items: One $25 ThinkGeek gift certificate One $25 Spark Fun Electronics gift certificate One $25 Make Store gift certificate Ten mini flashlights with 10mm LEDs This
Hacked Gadgets has just passed a few huge milestones, this is thanks to all of our regular readers, our huge Web community of friends (sorry if your site isn’t in the link section, please submit your site for consideration if you feel it should be there) and our advertisers. We are celebrating by giving away some extra special prizes for the next contest. The traffic for last month was over
We have all seen these floating globes in the novelty stores and online. How would you like to build one? J. Hodgie has put together an article that will walk you through the required steps to make your own. The code for the Atmel ATMega168 Microcontroller is also provided. “It is much like the floating globes you can buy, except it works by balancing the forces of permanent magnets with
Rafael Mizrahi, the QA Lead at Mainsoft sent in this cool video of a Nintendo Wiimote that is used to debug .NET code! I wonder if the bluetooth Wiimote interface to the computer is being handled using Carl Kenner’s Glovepie or if Rafael created his own from scratch? Either way, Great job!
OK, the USB Fan Chair has got to be one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. I almost fell off my chair laughing when I read about this. Looks like our good friends over at GetUSB.info were one of the first to stumble on this wacky gadget. When winter rolls around, put away the fan chair and pull out the USB Chair Warmer. 🙂 Via:
Intelligent Hospital Systems is building a system called RIVA which stands for Robotic IV Automation, it’s a large box of automation which would be installed in a hospital to aid in proper medication delivery. Have a close look at the second image, that’s right a huge robotic arm is used to move the product through various stages inside the machine. I wonder if the development team has some fun with
We have all experienced file loss at one time or another. For me it’s usually an accidental deletion of a directory when I am cleaning up old files from my hard drive. Soft Logica has requested Hacked Gadgets to perform an unbiased paid review of their software package called Handy Recovery. If you are working in a Windows environment chances are you could use Handy Recovery to restore some of
