In years past I remember looking out the window as soon as I woke up to see what the weather is like, sad to say these days I usually glance at a smart phone on my bed side table. This way I not only get the current conditions but also the high and low temperature for the day and the precipitation prediction. This project is is doing a similar
If you have a Raspberry Pi you can use your existing LEGO MINDSTORMS Sensors. Thanks to John Cole from Dexter Industries for sharing this with us. “This is also a great example of how to get started with I2C on the Raspberry Pi. We chose the dIMU because it’s easy to access and use, with just four lines to connect (SDA, SCL, GND, and VCC).  You may have to
The prize this week is a breadboard power supply. This contest will run for one week (Feb 2Â – 8, 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 message
   Using Muriatic Acid (found at your local hardware store) and Hydrogen Peroxide (found at your local drug store) Felix Rusu from LowPowerLab was able to make a DIY SMD Metal Stencil using a Pop Can. He cut out a section of the aluminum can wall and transferred the SMD pad image to the metal using the toner transfer method. Touching up some of the imperfect areas of the
Thanks to Danielle from PBS for sending in this interesting video about The First Software Patent. They will be releasing a new video every 2 weeks, check out the channel for a bunch of interesting ones they have already released (there are 6 so far). The guy who invented the screw in coffin might not get rich from the idea but if this was available when the idea of
If you want to hack a Keurig B40 the first thing you will need to do is get inside. As we can see by the video that Jared McClenahan sent in that is easier said than done. Gone are the days when things were made to be taken apart and fixed. It doesn’t look like these machines were made to be taken apart after the main housing assemblies were snapped
