If you like guitar hero and are into sports then you need to have a look at this Kasabian Football Hero project! Via: Engadget "An experiment to create a giant (three stories high!) guitar game controlled with footballs. Football Hero is played by a team of insanely gifted young freestyle footballers. The game is programmed with the Kasabian track Underdog."
If you have a need for a DIY 30KV power supply have a look at this one that Daniel Eindhoven from megavolts.nl has built! You may have to scrounge for the parts for a few years though since it took 30 microwaves to get the needed parts. If you are thinking that you remember the name you are right, Daniel is also the one who brought us the MV
Mr Fixit Rick has been hard at work building a machine that demons from the afterlife can talk through. It makes for a great Halloween centerpiece. Well maybe it doesn’t exactly channel demons but it is still lots of fun. If you want to have lots of spooky fun you can even build your own! There is still time to enter your Halloween Project into the Contest. Via: Hacked
If you have 3 servo motors, some scary eyes, a few Popsicle sticks and an Arduino you can also make a some crazy eyes! Just add a white sheet and stick these Servo controlled Eyes under it and you will have the scariest ghost on the block. "It consists of the following components: – 2 toy eyeballs or ping pong balls painted like eyeballs – 2 small servos (HXT500
Kizomox has been working on some great high voltage experiments lately. You may remember the Potato that he Exploded with Defibrillator Capacitor that we featured before. Looks like he has moved way up in power since then! There aren’t very many people who have their personal pole transformer in their back yard. 🙂 Via Article comments.
Sparkfun received a Cease and Desist letter from SPARC International. It’s a sad day when a good organization like SPARC have a bunch of lawyers that do nothing but send out this type of garbage. This just causes unnecessary havoc for a great company like Sparkfun who has a name that has a section which sounds similar. What’s next SparkPlug International will no longer be able to sell their
Thanks to the LAlarm for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing $200 worth of business licenses of their Laptop Alarm software. It is still free for personal use but this means that you will be able to turn a USB key into a security device and use it in the office. Their LAlarm software was featured here at Hacked Gadgets last month . "LAlarm™ is free laptop
