2007

CNC Build Videos

Yes Yes, I know, there are many good sites out there that tell you how to build your own CNC router. Here is a site that walks you through the whole process of building a CNC router, from the ground up, with videos. The web site covers 36 steps to build a CNC router, 35 of the steps are documented by video. The whole router is built with basic hand

Incredible Security Hacks

  Max Cornelisse from the Netherlands has done some incredible hacks. He is a 24 year old science grad who likes to poke fun at how insecure some systems are. I guess they could be staged but most of them look very real. Let me know what you think… Anyone able to translate what is going on in the train video? Thanks to Rutger B. for sending in this translation.

Eggstractor

  This Eggstractor works quite well. I don’t eat lots of hard boiled eggs but when I do I usually end up picking tiny pieces of shell off the egg for a minute or two. I think this idea is good enough for Dragons Den (one of my favorite shows)! “Very useful way to peel an boiled egg. With this homemade gadget you can peeling over 50 eggs per minutes

Battery University

Have you ever wondered about all of the different batteries on the market these days? Urban legends about batteries?? Are you suppose to drain them completely before you charge them or charge them after every use? Would you like to build a smart battery charger to charge the your batteries just enough so you will not fry them? When would you use nickel-cadmium over nickel-metal-hydride? Why would you want to

Smart RFID Poker Table

James Brown, Shawn Ironmonger, Michael Moninski and Dan Moore from Purdue University put together quite the gambling machine. They made a Smart RFID Poker Table that could keep track of where chips where placed on the table. After watching a few of the gambling cheat shows on TV where people use misdirection and slight of hand to increase their bets when it is in their favor would be shot down

Wireless Power Transfer and Magnetic Levitation

I am a huge Tesla fan. Anytime I read anything about wireless power applications I get very excited. Coils and resonance frequency drives me nuts. Check out bea.st’s web site: On the main page is one such project that deals with Magnetic Levitation using Hall effect Sensor Feedback, and Matched resonant wireless power transfer Check out the video links right under the first image. Detailed information and schematics are listed

Fan Case Mod

Do you hate loud PC cases as much as I do? In past years I have bought some cheap systems and always hated how loud they were. In most instances it was just poor quality fans that caused the problem. I wonder how long this Fan Case Mod would last sitting beside me? I don’t think it would look so pretty after 10 minutes… Via: Technabob