Looking for a DIY solution to do Home Automation on a budget? Have a look at this Home Automation system that uses a cheap router to interface your in home items with the outside world using your network. Of course by outside world this includes you using your cell phone while sitting on the couch to turn on the porch light for your wife who is coming home with the
Hack a Day is running a cool contest where you need to hack apart any dancing santa you can find and create a cool walking santa project. “The challenge: Acquire a dancing Santa. We don’t care which one it is, how much you spend, how big it is etc. We know there are tons of models out there ranging from dancing Christmas [Homer Simpson] to giant life sized Santa. It
We had some feedback about the IR Jammer and how the button snap was not the best way to attach the 9 volt battery to the IR Jammer. The IR Jammer version 2 now has a plastic 9 volt battery box that holds the battery and with the included double stick foam it is now a much better looking evil device. It also has much better feel in the hand.
If you are wanting to play with a bank of LEDs have a look at the TLC5947, it outputs 24 channels of constant current LED outputs. This RGB LED Circuit uses the TLC5947 and demonstrates how capable it is. If you want to have a look at the code for some ideas you can see the project page here. “It uses one TLC5947 per 24 channels, which does 12-bit PWM
It is sometimes fun to think of a cool problem and come up with an electronic solution. Have a look at this project that Matt Meerian from Home Brew Electronics put together, it is a way to Shoot a Bullet through a Spinning Propeller Blade. This was a common problem years ago when planes needed to have a forward mounted gun shoot through a center propeller. Matt thought it would
Check out the latest Ben Heck Show where Ben makes converts a cheap laptop into an airplane friendly laptop. This is to prevent the guy sitting in front of you from tilting your screen when they lean their chair back. After the hack the screen is able to be tilted up and over the keyboard giving you tons of clearance between you and the objects in front of you. Only
Stanislav Ponomarev has been working hard with his NerdKit Microcontroller. He developed an impressive RGB LED Tetris Game. I think this version is probably more fun than the original version. 🙂 I could just imagine scaling this up and playing it on the side of an apartment building with each window acting as a pixel of the game. Stanislav will send in the code and schematics as soon as they
