2013

Screen Printing PCB Manufacturing

  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.

Data from Arduino sent to the Net using an Android Phone

  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

Cardboard Cube Lamp

  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.  

Hacked Baofeng UV5R Ham Radio

  If you have a Baofeng UV5R Ham Radio and want to get the most out of it have a look at the reverse engineering work Lior Elazary has done with his. The radio is very powerful as it is but when hacked, the sky is the limit on what you can do with it. Lior has many pages of information and code that he has used to hack this

RGB Pixel Clock

     These RGB Pixels look like they are fun to work with since they are so versatile. Tobias Floery is having some fun building an RGB Pixel Clock using a string of them. You can see the 3 parts of the project linked to below. Tobias is using a real time clock connected to an Arduino to keep accurate time, he found a good library for controlling the LED

TheGeekGroup Quarter Shrinking Machine

  You may have seen shrunk coins before but you may not have seen the technology that goes behind making them. Thanks to Aud1073cH for sending in the video above that The Geek Group made showing how they make the coins that they sell as a fund raiser item. If you are interested in purchasing other coins such as the Canadian Toonie (pictured below) have a look at this site