Here is a cool popcorn popper that could be handy next time you are out camping. It is quite small so it may not be of much use if you have a big family but it is sure to be fun for the kids to pop some of their own popcorn in a can that they just used to quench their thirst with. 🙂 "Learn how you
Congratulations to the last contest winner. The prize this week is a new product that we just added to the store. These LED mounting adapter boards let you solder to a small circuit board instead of soldering directly to LED and resistor leads. This contest will run for one week (March 29 – April 3, 2008) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the
So you think that installing solar power in a house has to be expensive? This article shows that it is possible to do it yourself on a small budget. "I put the batteries in their container, and connected the 2 together in series with a #1 Car Battery Cable from Canadian Tire that cost $14. The connectors where already on it that fit the batteries I got them, so
The Doktor has hacked together a cool way of controlling something on your computer via USB. Looks to be a USB joystick that has been re-purposed to interface with new buttons. This looks to be the ‘new parallel port’. In the days when computers had parallel ports interfacing with the real world usually meant connecting inputs and outputs directly to the IO lines of the port. They were
There are all kinds of antenna designs floating around the net and many of them use found parts for their construction. I have never seen a Bicycle Rim Antenna before though! Alan Yates is the creative designer of this antenna. "Several months ago I was walking home from the post office, nearing my place I saw it was "clean-up week", the curb dotted with various piles of junk people
Martin Grebe tipped us about this cool plasma tweeter in the comment section of this article. Timetec did a fantastic job on building this unit! His musical selection isn’t my favorite but the great operation sure makes up for that. "Now built the completed circuit on a single PCB. Made vertical electrode setup from tungsten carbide (bottom) + stainless steel (top). Reflector made from PVC pipe with rear mirror,
Here is a Segway with tires that are two feet wide! Cool hack that is sure to turn heads, but I still have a thing for the Segway Centaur (video below).
