June 2009

64 RGB-LED Color Table

  Edo from Germany built a real cool LED table that is controlled by Arduino microcontrollers. As soon as we get some more details we will add it to this article. Edo sent in some pictures and some text about the design and himself. Thanks Edo. Via: Top 5 Cool Tables Comments "My name is Edo, I am a 23 years old from Hamburg Germany and I’m studying computer science

125mW Green Laser Pointer by Sky Lasers

  Thanks to Sky Lasers for sending in one of their 125mW Green Laser Pointers for review. I have had normal 5mW green laser pointers in the past but there is no comparison between a normal laser and one of these high power 125mW units. The laser uses 2 AAA batteries, high power mode will work fine using rechargeable nickle metal hydride batteries but low power mode will not operate

Top 10 WALL-E Hacks

  It has been almost a year now since the Disney movie WALL-E was released, Hacked Gadgets featured some mods that were made but there has been a huge WALL-E following and countless hours spent making case mods, reproduction robots and other hacks. Thanks to the huge WALL-E mod community for the interesting creations, if you only have time to look at one hack scroll down to the bottom and

Robot Navigation Platform Development

  Our friend Muris from Elektronika.ba has been developing a Robot Navigation Platform. This system will include everything you could wish for on a single board for navigating your robot. Like all complex project there are bound to be some bumps in the road and this project is not immune to that fact. Read the build details to see what issues came up and how they are being resolved. "I

DIY WiFi Radio

  Jeff Keyzer from mightyOhm has completed his DIY WiFi Radio build. The finish is fantastic but look closer, the case was built from scratch. Best of all it is based on a hacked router. "I removed the USB and DC power jacks from the WL-520gU PCB.  I’m planning to use the USB port solely to talk to my SYBA USB-Audio adapter, so I removed the USB connector from the