Do you work on your hobbies in your basement? Most of us do, so what’s the big deal about Jason Shron who built a train in his basement. Well his train isn’t a model, it is FULL SIZE! “It took me four and a half years and over 2500 hours to build VIA coach 5647, and it even involved buying the real VIA coach 5647 and taking it apart.
  The prize this week is a breadboard power supply. This contest will run for one week (Feb 11 – 15, 2013). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with “Name the Thing Contest” as the subject, and the
Check out this Leap Motion device that Stephane Bersot made into a cool MIDI controller to play drums, guitar pitch and the piano EQ. Thanks for the tip James.
Manuel Beithner sent in this open source project called MusicBeam that they have been working on for the last 6 months. It will allow you to have a laser light like show at your next party using your projector. They are taking requests so if you don’t want to develop your own custom effect I am sure if it is cool enough they will add the effect into the
