Greener Business has put together a $15 Portable Solar Powered USB Charger with an LED Flashlight project that might appeal to the green person within you. “With this project the thing that makes it really useful is that you can leave the device in the sun, without anything hooked upped to it, then bring it anywhere with you to charge your USB devices, because it’s hooked up to the
What is an oscilloscope, what can you do with it, and how does it work? For those Hacked Gadget makers who have had little experience in working with oscilloscopes and would like to learn more about them, check out these tutorial sites. Oscilloscope tutorial Oscilloscopes Use of the Oscilloscope Using an Oscilloscope Oscilloscope Tutorials
Seems like almost anything can be done with a oscilloscope and some determination! Video after the jump. “Star Wars on mame, hacked to render on an oscilloscope driven from the sound card. The dots in the corners of the image compensate for any DC offset, to stop it drifting around the screen.” Via: TechEBlog
Here is a project that you can build to show you some instant stats on almost anything you may want, emails, number of Diggs an article has, CPU usage of your computer, etc. There is a great build log for the project and the creator has released the entire project so you can build your own. You will find source code, schematic diagrams and even the PCB file on his
Tim from Imagitronics has created a cool alarm clock that was just a concept till he spent a few dollars on some parts and created it. “Several months ago, I stumbled across an interesting article on halfbakery.com about the possibility of an alarm clock in which the alarm only sounds when the user is actually lying in bed. The idea peaked my interest a bit. Last week I decided
Happy holidays from everyone here at Hacked Gadgets! This month Hacked Gadgets will be giving a lucky commenter a $75 gift certificate to ThinkGeek. To enter please comment on this post to tell us what you would purchase at Think Geek if you win (please include a link so others can look at it) and comment on an article between now and January 1, 2008. The more comments you leave
Congratulation to the last contest winner. The prize this week is a remote control watch. Have fun flipping channels and turning off TVs everywhere! This contest will run for this weekend only (December 8 – 9, 2007) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer
