The prize this week is sponsored by Gadget Gangster. Gadget Gangster offers electronics projects designed by the community. It’s free to post your project and they’ll split the sales with you! Get started now and get a 4-pack of their project boards for free. Sign up to Gadget Gangster here. The cool Arduino prize should help you bring your ideas to life, seems like they are taking the DIY scene
You may remember the Grad Cap LED Hack that we had here last year, this Grad Gown LED hack uses a bunch of LEDs that are connected to an audio detection circuit that makes it into a VU meter! It is one of the entries in the Curious Inventor Contest, this is the last day of the contest so hurry to get an entry in. "I had an idea
OnlineUniversities.com has put together a list of 100 blogs that will make you smarter. The blog list is broken into 10 categories with 10 blogs in each one. I am honoured to see that Hacked Gadgets has made it in the DIY category. Is this list link bait? I don’t think so since I would agree with all of the entries I have looked at. "Do It Yourself
Ashish Derhgawen has done lots of interesting work with vision. You can see all of his projects on his Ashish’s Programming Journal. Best of all the vision is captured with a simple webcam which makes these projects possible for any hobbyist. Here are a few links to my favorite projects of his. Laser Pointer used as a Mouse (first video). Pan Tilt Webcam using a Mouse (second video). This
***WARNING*** if you attempt any project that uses explosive materials please exercise extreme caution. These videos show you how to make a smoke grenade (second video) and how to make a pull ring that will allow it to be ignited just like a grenade.
Is your desktop quad core computer a bit slow for your liking? If SGI develops this concept into an actual product you may be able to add some horsepower to your computing needs. "Engineers at Silicon Graphics research labs developed the system to show how consumer electronics technologies and emerging marketplace trends might someday be applied to overcome the limits of today’s high-throughput clusters. The Silicon Graphics Molecule concept
Carl Erickson from Phenostream has built a very small yet very smart stepper motor. Many of them can be controlled via a daisy chained serial connection which could make it simple to interface with complex projects. This car project is a cool example of the possibilities. "The OpenStepper Module (OSM) is comprised of a GSM_01 and the OpenStepper circuit board. OSM firmware is based on Mike Thompson’s popular OpenServo
