BobS has come up with a creative Hard Drive Camera Stabilizer. We have seen other ways to Gyro Stabilize a Camera but this one is nice because it has the possibility of making use of a hard drive that otherwise would have no purpose. "In an experiment, I connected a loose HD to a computer power supply, and felt the resistance to its change of position. I figured a
Back in 1959 this is what you would have been reading if your were an electronics professional. How things have changed from then to now, almost everything you purchase today is made to be disposable since you can produce a new board for less than it would take to troubleshoot and repair it. It is impressive how reliability has changed though since in this article they expect most people
Joe from ProtoDojo has made a NES USB Drive with Security out of his old NES controller. Instead of simply hacking the device with a USB drive he wanted to use the controller buttons to add some extra security to the device. When the device is plugged into the computer nothing happens until you enter in the Konami code. When the code is entered in correctly a relay pulls
Todd Harrison came up with a great way to scare anyone who dares to press the red button nose of his pumpkin. The Honking Pumpkin is sure to be a hit sitting on the front step of your house. 🙂 "Control board showing the two 555 timers, two MOSFETs, pot to control horn blast timing and other discrete elements. The first 555 timer starts when the red button is
Bumblebeepee from the Hacked Gadgets Forum entered the Halloween Project Contest with this cool Hidden Sound Trigger contraption. He used an infrared beam to detect when someone enters the target area, the buzzer output of the beam module presses play on an mp3 player which is amplified to drive some speakers and scare someone. This year he is working with the same module to play some music and light
There will be two prizes this week (one winner for each prize). The first is a cool remote control watch. Have fun messing with your friends or the TVs at your local hangout. The second prize is two of our new 1 foot LED lighting strips. These 12 volt LED strip lights can be installed anywhere such as under your cabinets, in a shed or in a vehicle. The strips
Guysoft shows us how to create a Bumble-b LED Matrix Computer Interface. I have never used a Bumble-b but for $17 how could you go wrong? It seams like one of the best ways to communicate directly via USB to a computer. Via: HG Forum "After getting my LED matrix to display messages, I wanted to make use of the USB port, and get the matrix to work as
