Make is holding a new contest for the Makers Market, enter to win some free stuff. Have a look at picture number 3 🙂 that is none other than the Electronic Coaster Set from our Hacked Gadgets Market! Since the coasters only cost $9.99 and the winning item can be worth up to $500, I think this will be detrimental to the lower priced items getting any votes though. “Been
Here are a number of quick links from the email bag here at Hacked Gadgets. Thanks for sending in all your great projects and links to cool sites. iPod Touch Internet Remote Ham Radio Station LINK “Using an iPod Touch as a ham radio station from anywhere in the world (via WIFI). Cool combination of the old school & new school.” Thanks Victor. NXT Rover LINK “The idea was to
If you run a server room or have tons of computer equipment in your house you might want to keep track of the room environment. Invent Geek has made a Open Source Server Room Monitor project to help us do this on the cheap. “The server room environmental monitoring system is a low cost high performance device with the same onboard features as commercial devices costing hundreds of dollars more.
Colin Karpfinger who is also the creator of the cool Autonomous Paintball Sentry Gun has made a great article about Ordering your Eagle PCB Designs. Learning Eagle is quirky enough but after your design is done you still need to learn about circuit board manufacturing before you can get them produced. This is because the manufacturer needs specific files that represent the layers involved in making your board. After you
Jean-Claude Wippler from Jee Labs is making a DIY RGB LED Strip Driver Board and has documented the results and build details in a few posts. Here is a video that shows what the end result looks like. This project is going to allow for fully adjustable lighting in the Jee Labs, with a typical RGB light strip you should be able to achieve any color you want! “I wanted
The prize this week is a loupe magnifier, this will let you get a close look at whatever you are working on. This contest will run for one week (June 12 – June 18, 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
Daniel Davies has made an interesting Touch Sensitive Car Security Device called the G-Spot. With this device installed turning the key is not all that is required to start your car. You also need to know about the secret G-Spot location, while touching your grounded key you also need to touch the G-Spot location to successfully start your car. You could imagine that a metal screw on your dash could
