January 22, 2011 – Hacked Gadgets

Name the Thing Contest – 164

Alan Parekh January 22, 2011 13

Thanks to OpenPicus for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a FlyPort Wi-Fi Picus module and USB StarterKit Nest that we just featured to the winner. “FlyPort WIFI module has enough processing power and memory space to let you: Manage sensors Manage actuators Create micro webservers Create complex network of sensors/actuators based on the existing WIFI networks” This contest will run for one week (January 22 –

Cool Gadgets

Hide Goodies in a Secret Dice – Atmega88 Microcontroller Based

Alan Parekh January 22, 2011 2

Deddie Lab has two interesting Secret Dice projects, this one is the original but there is also a metal one that Deddie has since made. The object is to get inside the box, no smashing the box on the ground doesn’t count. The boxes have a secret code stored in them, to enter the secret code you must tilt the box in the correct ways to enter the code. When