2007

WAIT! I just got a great idea! - Rite in the Rain

I don’t know about you but sometimes you just need to take a note or a quick sketch. Rite in the Rain was always done it for me. Just add a pencil or a write everywhere pen. There are a bunch of sizes and types from spiral bound to stapled. 8.5 by 11 down to the 3 by 5 ones you can slip into a pocket. Where else can you

Microwave Welder

This is definitely not going be UL listed but if you need a welder on the cheap this is one way to go. The “Tiny Tim” Welder

Cook Hot Dogs with Electricity

  Looks like the University of Alaska Fairbanks has grouped the engineering and culinary arts programs together. 🙂 “How does an electrical engineer cook a hot dog? 1.5 A for 60 seconds! Taken at the E-Week open house put on by the engineering departments at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.”  

Speaker Power Detector

This Speaker Power Detector might be a project that you want to add to your existing stereo system. The author is working on a revision so it may be something to do in the near future if you don’t want to implement the prototype design. “The circuit revolves around the LM339, a low-power comparator designed to be easy to operate from a single (positive) power supply. A comparator compares two

Poor Man's DIY scratchpad

  How to make your own scratchpad out of nothing but a pizza box and an optical mouse. I’m sure everyone has a spare optical mouse–and if you’re anything like me–an abundance of pizza boxes lying around. Check out a video of it in action. I love to see these sorts of ultra low budget hacks. Keep up the good work out there. For some more cool stuff, check out

Roomba Christmas Caroling Hack

  Merry Christmas from everyone here at Hacked Gadgets, keeping the hacking tradition alive the video today is three roomba robots performing Christmas carols. 🙂 “Make your Roomba a musical instrument! RoombaMidi2 is a small Mac OS X program that makes your Roomba appear as a MIDI interface to MIDI sequencer programs like Ableton Live, Apple Logic, and so on. RoombaMidi2 is an update of the original Java-based RoombaMidi. The