Projector, Old stereo, laptop, and a few connecting cables: Its likely these are things you already have, or can borrow with a few phone calls to your friends. Have you ever thought of starting a Guerrilla Drive-in, aka MobMov? “With hundreds of movie mobs across the world, the Mobile Movie is bringing back the forgotten joy of the great American drive-in. Powered by cars and low-cost film projectors, ‘mobmovs’ are
The Holiday Contest was a great success! Thanks for the great participation. 🙂 Rick Crammond is the lucky winner, he let us know that the Bluetooth Retro Handset is something he would like to add to his collection of gadgets, comment 13 in the Is this real or What post was the winning pick.
Above is a video from Johnny Lee, a Computer Engineer who has chosen the Wii Remote as one of his main hacking platforms. Johnny was kind enough to take some time out of his busy schedule to do an interview with us. Alan Parekh: Thanks for taking the time to do this interview with us. Johnny Lee: Your welcome, it’s a pleasure to chat with you. AP: I
Lolly from Germany is a creator of one of the Tesla coils that was featured in the Musical Tesla Coil Collection article last week. Lolly has now created a video that walks through the technology he used to build his device. “Overview and demonstration of my SSTC Setup. The RF is generated with a Class-E MOSFET stage with controllable Frequency. The sound is modulated on the gate signal of
Race motorcycles are fast, mean machines. One way to make them faster is to use technology to help the bike shift and control a NOS system! That is what Chris P. of the Parallax forum did to his Kawasaki ZX10. Chris has published his code on the forum also so that you can see how he did it and build your own if you dare. “During the early spring of
Looking for a new hobby that you can work on in your garage and really make the neighbors mad? Why not start to work on a pulse jet go-cart! It will require lots of testing well into the night and when it is done you will need to perform numerous test runs back and forth on the front street… Sorry the owner has sold this one on Ebay already
Been reading for a while and not quite sure where to jump in? Maybe you would just like to learn more details? Hardware modding/hacking is lots of fun, and can have a very rewarding outcome. For starters, here is a great article for beginners, covering pretty much all the bases. Also Wikipedia is an excellent source for some beginner knowledge, everything from capacitors, to resistors, to solder, and much much
