 This Digital Reversi Board Project by Hanting Lu and Kai Wang from Cornell University look like fun. It is just like the real reversi game and ensures that players can’t make invalid moves. An Atmel Mega 1284 is used to read in the press locations from the touch sensor and is also interfaced to the bi-color LEDs using a TI 3 to 8 line decoder chip and a
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
Sometimes you just ask what will happen if… In this case it is what would happen if you Spin a Plasma Ball at 4000 RPM! Turns out the ball pattern locks into a strange pattern, the plasma effect also continues to spin after the actual ball comes back to rest. Why does this happen? Not sure. I am sure we will see more of this rig in the future
Michael Colombo from Make wrote a guide that goes through the steps Michael uses to build acrylic enclosures. When you are finished a project you may be lucky enough to make it fit into a mint tin but for those other ones that need something a bit more custom why not make an enclosure that is just as hand made as the electronics inside. “When building your own creations,
