July 2007

Disposable Camera Mods

Our friends over at DIY Live have come up with a top 10 list of Disposable Camera Mods, my favorite is the mini rail gun mod. ” This is a fun and non-dangeros project for those people who like to throw projectiles magnetically. It simply works by placing a ferromagnetic projectile at one end of a coil and pulsing some power in it. The trick is to switch off power

Speech Recognition Using FPGA Technology

Carlos, David and Kanwen from McGill University developed a cool voice recognition system using a FPGA development system. Video after the jump. “My team (David and Kanwen) and I implemented a speech recognition system on an FPGA development board (Altera DE2 Board) for the Design Project course at McGill (ECSE 949). We did this in two step: first we wrote a prototype for the algorithm in MATLAB (I’ll may be

iPod LED Lighting Hack

Tired of your stock iPod? This iPod LED Lighting Hack adds some LED to an iPod to jazz it up when playing some tunes. While you are at it, have a look at another Acid mod hack. Video after the jump. “Latest is my iPod modification. Clear casing and some leds on a volt amp for some lighting efects.” Thanks F00 f00

Guitar Hero Robot - Guitar Heronoid

Rafael Mizrahi has put some serious work into this Guitar Hero Robot called Guitar Heronoid. If you are not very good at Guitar Hero this robot may be what you need to get some high scores. If this hack it a bit to hard, why not go wireless first. “The robot is divided into two basic parts, “brain” and “body”. The “brain” is in charge of detecting and analyzing the

Rocket Powered Matchbox Car

  Kipkay has made another one of his videos. 🙂 In this video he straps a small rocket motor to a toy car. When the motor is activated it goes off with a blast, Kipkay estimates that it is going 1800 scale miles per hour!

Robot Building Instructions - BeetleBot

  Jerome Demers from Quebec has put together a great article. If you are looking to get into robot building this Robot Building Instructable could be a step in the right direction. The parts could be scrounged up for free from things you have laying around or they can be purchased inexpensively.

Nonentity Nixie Clock

Guess what, another nice Nixie clock! Nonentity posted his cool Nixie clock in the Hacked Gadgets Forum. Nonentity has documented the entire build in great detail on his site. Some of the macro pictures are spectacular!