January 2012

Instructables member Quanchante shared an interesting project of building a relatively cheap and pretty darn easy-to-assemble step lights made out of LEDs. If you are interested then get ready with the following Materials:  Glue gun and glue sticks Soldering gun and solder Felt or Thick fabric that matched the carpet on my existing steps 5mm UltraBright LEDs, color: Pure White with clear lens (3 per step light) 9v Battery (1 per step light)

WALL-E DIY Track Build Results

    You might remember the Top 10 WALL-E Hacks post that we made back in 2009? Well the DIY WALL-E builders are still hard at work. Have a look at the video above showing the tracks that Michael from the WALL-E Builders group is working on. UPDATE (January 6, 2012): Thanks to Michael for sending in some of the build pictures.    

Rudolph - Email Reading Reindeer

  Adafruit reported a cool gadget so called “Rudolph“, an email Reading Reindeer that lets you know when you’ve got a new email and tells you who sent it! Basically it uses Propeller Platform USB to log into the email server, trigger animations, and generate the speech. The Internet connection is handled separately by E-Net module. All the software codes required to build this project can be downloaded from Gadgetgangster.

Access your Apple TV 1st Generation via FTP

 Picture courtesy of Omoon at Flickr ÂÂWhat if you have an FTP server in your Apple TV? Don’t you think it will be great to have a server sitting in your AppleTV (with Mac/Windows OS) that will take care of all your file transfers easily and quickly.  Appletvhacks member Ruben has brought out a nice tutorial the help of which you can install ÂÂand Configure a FTP Server

Turn Chumby web browser to Full-screen kiosk

  Cibomahto member mahto modified the Chumby web browser to a full-screen kiosk for his 8″ Insignia Infocast branded machine. You can probably make it to work with the other Chumbys too without learning flash or compiling anything.   The steps required to make it working are : – At first grab the file here, – unzip the contents into a USB stick or SD card, – place the card

DIY Steampunk Analog Clock with Moon phase

  Instructables member Fatratmatt has posted in his blog an amazing concept of building a Steampunk analog clock. The clock not only displays the time, month, date and day of the week but it is even equipped with an option of playing  a video of the correct moon phase for the current date and time. You can create your own audio effects with the selectable volume controls when the moon phase