No this isn’t a CD-ROM drive that has been modified to scratch my head but rather a mechanical assembly in a CD-ROM drive that has me scratching my head wondering how it functions. A few weeks ago I ripped apart an old CD-ROM drive to get a DC motor for the VHS Tape Storage Drive, the circuit board was also cut up while testing the CNC machine that was
Solar power is getting more and more popular, looks like they are even showing up in sunglasses! One of our sponsors is offering a free white paper that covers new breakthroughs in Designing Solar-Powered Computing Device. Hacked Gadgets also receives a small amount for each person who signs up so it would also be a simple way of making a small contribution to Hacked Gadgets. There are also lots
You may remember the interview we did with Roger Smith a few years ago. This time Roger is demonstrating how power can be transmitted about 10 feet through thin air using tuned coils. Of course this would not be practical for normal power transmission since even during this demonstration Roger takes a poke from the resonator coil. 🙂 It would be interesting to see one of these scaled up
