Some of the music that this creation can produce is wonderful! I love the clack clack of the solenoids working in rhythm. Have a look at the build details here. "The Waldflöte project is a MIDI retrofit to a 1890s Gray and Davison pipe organ located in the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh. It converts MIDI input into solenoid drive to directly press the keys on one of the manuals
The Prop Master has created some spooky See Saw Halloween Skeletons that can be setup to greet your guests as they arrive on Halloween. 🙂 It uses a windshield wiper motor to create motion and a simple adjustable wall wart power supply is used to adjust the prop speed. "The wiper motor is attached to a 2×4 with hot glue and tie wraps. The 2×4 is attached to the
Here is another cool iPhone projects that controls a RC car. Is the iPhone the new Swiss Army knife of portable electronics? "Controlling is very easy with the iPhone 3G. It has five buttons, four of them you can use for traditional „driving“ and when you press the last one, it unlocks the accelerometer control in the same way as in many driving games available on AppStore. Realization of
The guys from NerdKits have come up with a neat way to drive a small RC car using their iPhone. The video below goes through some of the details, if you have some similar ideas you can use their code as a starting point since they have made it available! "Layering different simple systems together to perform one complex task is really at the heart of what engineering is
Our friends over at WonderHowTo.com just launched the 2008 Video Awards! For those of you who have never been to the site, they are the one-stop shop for all how-to videos on the internet. With a library of over 225,000 videos they provide the largest, most contemporary, and most diverse resource in this increasingly growing space. The WonderHowTo 2008 Video Awards! is their first annual competition that celebrates excellent
Entry 1 This is entry 1 of the Hacked Gadgets Workbench Contest, you still have some of time to show us what you got! We have 15 entries so far which means that there are great odds to win the iPod not to mention that the next 5 entries will get a loupe magnifier. Post your entry here, or just get lots of Workbench ideas. Read more about the
If you are looking to make a cool Water Bottle Launcher that can launch 2 liter pop bottles with some good force have a look at this one at Science Toy Maker. Have a look here for full build instructions. "2-liter soda bottles turned water rockets are as shrieking good a time as a water park and a lot easier to build! They streak into the air faster than
