Circuit bending can be lots of fun. This Circuit Bent Boot project takes it one step further by placing the circuit in a fun object. The Circuit Bent Boot sure looks like tons more fun than an Altoids tin! Via: Hacked Gadgets Comments “The project consists of the following materials: a rubber rain boot a small toy keyboard one potentiometer with a resistance of 100K ohms (available at Radioshack) three
Google Chrome is the new browser from the giant Google. Being Google they have decided to implement certain features in the browser that are a bit different than their competitors. Watch the above video to see what is really happening behind the scenes. Via: Geeks are Sexy
Have a look at the My 2uF blog for some interesting developments of an 8 RGB LED Ring project. There is lots of blog entries covering everything from board design to a working demo of project. He is using an interesting RGB surface mount LED, they seem to be very susceptible to heat which sounds like they would be hard to work with. “The board contains an ATmega168 chip, a
Phil Torrone has put together a guide of open source hardware that was produced over the past year. This is sure to be a growing category in the next few years. "Each year we do a guide to all open source hardware and this year there are over 125 unique projects/kits in 19 categories, up from about 60 in 2008, more than doubling the projects out there! – it’s
Warnlaser sent in a few of their laser pointers for Hacked Gadgets to review. They sent in a 20mw Razor series and a 5mw tiger. The Razor is royal violet and the Tiger green. 20mW Razor The shiny black case is very nice, I have purchased many laser pointers and most of them don’t have this outer protective sleeve. The actual case of both lasers is very sturdy, much like
If your project needs to store lots of data you need a datalogger, this Open Source Hardware SD Datalogger allows you to store tons of data onto an SD card. Via: Elektronika.ba "This project provides a general purpose library which implements read and write support for MMC, SD and SDHC memory cards. It includes low-level MMC, SD and SDHC read/write routines partition table support a simple FAT16/FAT32 read/write implementation"
Thanks to 4D Systems for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a DK-160G1 (OLED development kit) and a SOMO-14D Embedded Audio-Sound Module to the winner. This is about $175 dollars worth of gear which will let you play with the latest and greatest in OLED technology. 4D Systems is an Australian based company, which is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of intelligent graphic display
