 The prize this week is a breadboard power supply. This contest will run for one week (March 23 – Mar 29, 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
Check out this milled PCB that Per from  Zapro.dk Blog has made. If you think those are small traces and fine work for a milled PCB you are right. Not to mention the vias are plated through. This board is for a 5X5X5 LED cube that you can see in action here. This was done using a Protomat and a Minicontac II. You can see a Protomat in action here.
CruddCNC shows us how he took a piece of billet aluminum and turned it into a Custom Milled iPad Stand. The CNC machining makes me jealous since my V90 CNC could make this out of wood but there isn’t a hope for it to make it out of aluminum. The result is a great looking heavy duty stand. Not exactly practice though since I would hate to know what
 Our friend Dave from Plastibots has just completed this great looking Bluetooth Robot that has an IP Camera on board. Dave wrote an Android application called BT Bot Control to allow you to drive your robot around using commands over Bluetooth using your Android phone. The video from the camera is sent back using Wifi. I can just imagine how much fun this would be with a squirt
Olivier van Herpt invented a machine called the Time Writer. It allows any graffiti artist in training to get their message out to the masses with the push of a button. An Arduino controls the action here. The Arduino pulses a number of relays which open and close paint nozzles. The paint mixture is pressurized using a re-purposed water fire extinguisher which conveniently has a valve just like a
Tobias Schmidt built a robot mechanism to time his tea brewing. It uses a Atmel ATmega8 microcontroller to run the show, a 2 line LCD display shows you how much time is left for the brew to complete. A motorized slide was made with two optical limit switches is used to dunk the tea bag into the cup. Tobias is willing to share the code with anyone that is
The prize this week is a breadboard power supply. This contest will run for one week (March 17 – Mar 22, 2013). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Bonus marks for the exact make and mode that this is from! Thanks to Dmitriy for sending in the image. Please do not give the answer
