The prize this week is a cable tester to help you with troubleshooting. This contest will run for one week (March 20 – 26, 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. This week you will need to be specific as to the make of the item. Please do not
I don’t condone hacking someones Wi-Fi connection but rather learn from what can be done to protect your own connection. Darren from Hak5 shows us how with a bit of hardware and some software you can easily get in the middle of peoples Wi-Fi connections. Darren isn’t using his WiFi Pineapple shaped tool anymore but they are still available. I had never heard about Airdrop-ng before, it reminds me of
You might remember the Snow Removal Robot that we featured here last year. Well now there’s another snow blower to add to the snow removal automation list. The RoBo Blower is a remote controlled snow blower that allows you to remove all the snow you want from the comfort of your living room. Thanks Chip. “Herb Spencer is the inventor of The RoBo Blower. He is a master tinkerer and
This Voice Controlled Robotic Helicopter is quite interesting. You can speak English commands and it follows your instructions. I need that system in my car, I could get so much work done if I didn’t have to do all the time consuming driving. Via: Hack a Day and Bot Junkie “We recently got the system working on a quadrotor helicopter. We extended the topological map to 3d, added some orientation
Nicholas and Felice were featured on Make for some new items that they have in the Makers Market. For those who haven’t heard about the Makers Market you should check it out. I am looking into setting up a store there to sell a few geeky things that I have been thinking about. Looks like Nicholas is also a fan of TWIT TV, a network that Leo Laporte created and
Chris Anderson did a great talk at the Maker Faire about the evolution of the DIY Drone Autonomous Flight system.
Kenneth Finnegan who shared his DIY Binary Clock Build with us has made another clock. This time it’s a Digital TTL Clock. This design brings back memories of college when I had to design a mock photocopier circuit that allowed the entry of number of copies and decremented the number till it was down to zero. I also used 7 segment displays and the same driver chip. I have to
