Here is a great use for a ton of shiftbrights, it’s a DIY breathalyzer that uses an Arduino to monitor a Gas/Alcohol sensor and display the results on a big row of LEDs. Via: LED Projects “The 25 Shiftbrite modules are lined up in a column, which is connected to an Arduino tucked away in a cardboard box and are powered by a 4.5volt 500mA adapter. The Arduino takes readings from
Remember burning things with magnifying glasses when you were young. Johnie Sublett built this CNC Solar Woodburner for us to reclaim our youth and start burning things with the power of the sun again. It uses a fresnel lens to concentrate the sun and a CNC platform to automatically move the piece being burned around. “Here is the parts: Scrap Acryllic (like from my High School’s engineering academy) Metal
 xctechs attempted to pool together some packages that he used and genuinely liked on AppleTV2. In order to process and ready to use it, you need to Jailbreak Your Apple TV 2 first. NitoTV is a standard set of tools to enhance the functionality provided by the Apple TV Platform.The 5 best nitoTV deals are: XBMC Media Center – For Streaming Your Movies and TV shows from Your PC
 Make has a new podcast called Make: Talk. They just did their episode 1, click here to listen to it. The first episode is with Steve Hoefer of Grathio Labs, you might remember him as the guy who made the knock gumball machine and the Knock Lock. Big thanks to Steve for mentioning Hacked Gadgets in the show!
Here is a cheap and easy Mobile Camera Lens Cap Hack using a Magnet and a Coin that you can make for a few dollars and put together in under a minute. Thanks for sending it in Daniel.
Ryan Merl from the Harford Hackerspace needed a coffee maker that did a bit more than your everyday coffee maker. Since don’t we all want one that can accept HTTP requests! With some code and an Arduino this pimped coffee maker is ready to go. “Special Features 15 minute automatic shutoff Controlled via HTTP Requests Status, start, and stop requests Returns JSON for meant for AJAX interfaces Ready and
Carlos Asmat just let us know about a Cloud Robotics Hackathon that will be taking place in Montreal from March 2nd to the 4th. If you are around drop in and participate! “I just wanted to let you know that we are organizing a Cloud Robotics Hackathon that will take place from March 2nd to March 4th. The idea is to bring programmers together (whether they have robotics experience
