  Gregor “G-Man†Hanuschak sent in a tip about a fun looking project called the Smack Attack, which is a Steering Wheel Drum Kit (might be a product soon). You can now play along with the tunes in your car! The Kickstarter will go live very soon and has a goal of $200,000. With a product price of $150 and a early bird Kickstarter price of $99 I am
 It sucks when you have a perfectly good piece of hardware that mechanically functions but the controller dies. This is exactly what happened to Davide Gironi from Milan Italia when his dehumidifier stop working. Instead of placing it next to the curb for garbage pickup he investigated what the issue was. Turns out the humidity switch was no longer working. He installed an AVR Atmega8 microcontroller system that
  If you have some items that you would like to make some vacuum formed molds of and have access to a 3D printer this Vacuum Former project might be for you. All you need to do is place your item in the form. The plastic form material is heated then dropped over the item to be molded and a high power vacuum cleaner is used to suck the
Ben Rothschild wrote in about an interesting project that he is working on. Watch the video above for more details, if you would like your own Chipper – ATtiny Programming and Prototyping Shield please support his Kickstarter. “As a high school senior and electronic enthusiast, I recently built a programming shield for 10 different types of ATtiny chips that can be used with either an AVR programmer or Arduino
MikeysRC has built an RC Aircraft Simulator that replicates what it would feel like to fly a plane using a stick and pedals. The pilot that is demonstrating the system is following the plane in the sky as he flies it but the plane has a camera that is transmitting the flight video in real time to a monitor. This means that you can fly it using the controls
The prize this week is a breadboard power supply. This contest will run for one week (April 6 – April 12, 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
 Guitar tuners are quite common these days. Only problem is that they use displays or LEDs to indicate how the tuning process is going. Sam from J44 Industries made a guitar tuner that a blind person can use for a charity called Remap. His design starts with an off the shelf guitar tuner, only problem with this one is that it used LEDs for visual feedback. He used
