October 2014

Hacked Gadgets Halloween Pumpkin Experiment
Crazy Hacks

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  We crank up the juice on a 5mm LED to light up the Hacked Gadgets Halloween Pumpkin. LEDs have some incredible run time, quite often we don’t need them to run for thousands of hours. If you just need a fraction of the run time just crank up the power and get increased intensity. Watch the long version of the video below to see the math behind the hack.

Laser Etched Halloween Cookies
Crazy Hacks

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  Thought it would be fun to jazz up some cookies for Halloween. After some playing around with the power, speed and focus the results are not too bad. You can see the full res images here.    

DIY Electronic Fish Feeder
DIY Hacks

    In this DIY Electronic Fish Feeder an Arduino microcontroller is used to spin a drill bit which is placed to work as an auger to meter out fish food. If you want to build you own Brian goes through the build step by step.  

Classic NES played using a Kinect
Game Hacks

    Tired of using a pesky remote control to play your video games? Paul DeCarlo used a Kinect sensor and some other bits and pieces to allow you to interface with some old video games! “Ingredients: An NES console with game to test An NES controller OR some wiring skills and a CD4021BE 8-bit shift register 12 strands of wire, recommend Kynar 8 1k resistors (technically any value from 1k

LG Flatron W2052TQ Monitor Teardown and Repair
Teardown

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  After about 3 or so years my 3 20 inch LG Flatron W2052TQ monitors started failing. They were continuously powered on for their entire life and would simply go into sleep mode when the computers weren’t in use. You can see the repair video below that shows the 2 1000uF caps that were the culprit. At this time I have still to crack open the other 2 monitors but