We have all see some complex home automation systems, this video made by Jeremy from The Custom Geek gives a good overview of what is involved behind the scenes. This system lives in the garage and interfaces audio, video, phone, intercom, lighting and alarm system. Since the system is all connected it can do things like mute your pounding music when the door bell rings. Jeremy is also making custom
 NAND Gates are very versatile. You might remember back in the TTL days when you were out of a specific chip you could always grab a NAND chip out of the bin and re-purpose it to work. This NANDputer looks like it would be a bit harder to troubleshoot than the one that I am using to write this on! “While the CPU architecture is fairly conventional, the
Thanks to Jerod Michel for sending in the details of this Armed Mobile Response RC Car that he and his students have built. It can be driven around remotely, it has an audio and video range of 100 meters. If you spot something you aren’t pleased with you can paint your target with the laser and fire the vehicle mounted gun. I have to admit, it is quite strange to
Here is an example of Screen Printing PCB Manufacturing. It is very time consuming but your PCB factory could make screen printed t-shirts on the weekends. 🙂 It looks like they are setup for medium volume but it looks very time consuming compared to modern PCB manufacturing.
Kerimil sent in a method that he is using to get data out of his Arduino projects to the net using an Android phone in the middle. He demonstrates how he wrote the program on the Android using MIT App Inventor. The initial GUI reminds me of the Visual Studio environment where you can drag and drop elements such as check boxes and buttons but the language looks very
The prize this week is a breadboard power supply. This contest will run for one week (March 9 – Mar 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
This Cardboard Cube Lamp looks like a fun project. Make sure your light source is not very hot though! This can be made using an exacto knife but I am thinking that you could make some great looking shapes that would be easily repeatable with a laser machine and some scrap cardboard boxes.
