Not sure how many people would shoot fireworks at their expensive RC plane but the video it creates is great. The guys from Louisiana Hog Control do this every year as part of their 4th of July festivities. Thanks to Cy Brown for sending this in. “It has become somewhat of a family tradition to try and shoot down Uncle Cy’s expensive little toy every 4th of July and
Seems like anything that is web connectable is hackable. Google Glass now gets added to the list. Many functions on glass are activated by reading in QR codes, it turns out that a malicious QR code can be used to perform some undesirable things!
Nice to see this Game Controller for the Physically Disabled. It is sure to help out many people. Caleb Kraft has made a new site for this project, check out The Controller Project. If you want to help out please get in tough with them! “Custom gaming controllers can mean a lot of things. They could be big easy buttons for someone with muscle control issues or they could be
 Ken Gracey, the President of Parallax is building a huge quadcopter. In the picture above it might not look that big but when you realize that the propellers are 14 inches that might put things into perspective! There are 2 X 4 amp hour 18 volt batteries feeding the 770 KV motors. You can see the first flight below, after getting some kinks worked out it seems to
Holly Mann shows us how to build a DIY HDTV Antenna. You probably have most of the things around the house already so it shouldn’t cost more than about $5. Holly designed a good looking antenna that actually works after purchasing a few off the shelf HDTV antennas that didn’t work. I might need to give this a try since just like Holly I am getting tired of my
Hackaday is for sale. Jason Calacanis currently owns the site and wants $500,000 for it. In his post about the sale he talks about how he removed it from the Weblogs Inc sale which is why he still owns it. It currently makes about $14k per month in revenue so if you have some extra cash in your pocket this might be a good investment. If you would like
 There are lots of crazy things in nature that are unbelievable. You have probably read about starfish being able to regenerate lost arms or how frogs can freeze solid for months with no heart beat and thaw out and be good as new in the summer. Many species of worms also have the ability to regrow chopped off sections of their body including internal organs, see the video
