If you have a Acura NSX in your driveway and are getting a bit bored with its lines. Why not not make it into a $550,000 Farrari F50? Not sure if this was a conversion by owner or if the owner hired a shop to make the changes. I could just imagine the reaction the owner would have had if he showed up mid way through the project and saw
Once you are finished entering the weekly Hacked Gadgets contest you will want to have a look at this one. Remember the contest we ran back in October last year? No matter if you were one of the people who figured out that it was a 555 timer or if you needed to work on it for a bit. Now is your change to put that chip to some good
Kerry Wong needed a way to determine distance in a project. A popular way to do this is to use ultrasound. Kerry is sharing his experience of building his DIY Ultrasonic Range Sensor so that the rest of us can learn from what he built. Parallax has a product called PING which is a popular way to allow your project use ultrasound to measure distance also. Only problem is when
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 –
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
Thanks to Pete Friedrichs for sending in his Pipsqueak Receiver Build. I love the fact that it has been built from parts scavenged out of his junk box. At first glance I would not have guessed that it was built from junk since it has a nice kit look to it. I have never seen a spiderweb coil before, it looks absolutely fantastic. I should add one to my next
Looking for a powerful open source PIC microcontroller based platform that is built with wireless sensors and communication in mind? Look no further, today OpenPicus has been launched. A free IDE, inexpensive hardware and a great Italian team all points to great success. If you are a student make sure you have your microcontroller instructor drop the OpenPicus team an email requesting your free Campus Kit. Next time I am
