If you love growing plants and wish you could check out what’s happening when you are on the move take a look at this Mobile Phone controlled Plant Growbox that The Cheap Vegetable Gardener has put together. It has the ability to remotely monitor your plants and adjust the environment you are providing for them on the fly. You probably remember the DIY soil moisture sensor and the LED plant
If you have seen the Iron Man movie the image above is sure to be familiar to you. Patrick from Germany shared this project with us in the Hacked Gadgets forum, we have seen other cool Iron Man Repulsor Light projects before but as far as I know this is the first that it truly very dangerous. So a word of warning, do not attempt to copy this build unless
Forgetting a babies inside a locked vehicle is an unfortunate event which occurs far too often. Daniel Ogilvie, Peggy Liska and Michael Sherman have developed a solution which puts some TI tech into motion. They developed the SafeBABI concept while interning at TI. Nice that TI allowed them to work on a concept that they have no interest in ever monetizing. One of their cool eZ430 watches is used to
Steve Doubek is a Prototype and Design program instructor at the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. Have a look at the video for a tour of the dream shop where the Wall-e robots were built. The two robots were part of a 9 month build where the 14 students were split into two groups and each had full creative control over their robot, that’s why the two robots turned out quite
When I first took a look at this HDD Eyez project done by Jani ‘Japala’ Pönkkö over at MetkuMods I was thinking big deal, a few flashing red LEDs but the cap does some nice smoothing and results in a mesmerizing display. Via: Hackolog “We receive pulses from motherboard’s hdd led header. We get the pulses by removing the wire that goes to the original hdd led and replace it
The State of Electronics Documentary will be out soon. Have a look at the trailer for now. Thanks for the tip Dave. “After several months of researching, interviewing and filming, I’m excited to present the first public Trailer to my new Documentary “State of Electronics” – A discussion on the Electronics Industry in Australia. Even though the documentary is focused on Australian Electronics Design and Manufacture, much of it applies
The prize this week is a multi tool, perfect for opening things that were not designed to be opened. This contest will run for one week (October 9 – October 15, 2010) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an
