Kostas Kokoras built a Hacked Ericsson Cell Phone and Arduino Remote Control System. Kostas broke out the Ericsson T65 cell phone serial port to allow him to connect it to the Arduino, nice of the Ericsson engineers to give us a usable serial port that is easy to access! The system looks for specific phone numbers and a certain number of rings to perform functions, this is a great
 If you like the idea of having a GPS tracking device in your car to monitor the actual location of it there are some devices that you can simply purchase like the SilverCloud we saw before. But if you like to build things yourself have a look at the Realtime GPS Vehicle Tracking device that Sends Data using GSM by the guys over at Cooking Hacks. Not sure
Ben Armstrong built this interesting Vodka Vending Machine. “Designed to dispense alcoholic beverages in night clubs this project was design and built by myself and another team mate. Arduino hardware was used to program the device which include a stepper motor, an infra red sensor, two solenoid valves, an LCD screen, buttons and a coin collector.”
Caleb Kraft interviewed Sam Ortega from NASA, Sam explains how the prize competitions at NASA work. Anyone can submit designs for their competitions but only US citizens can win the prize money. “NASA Centennial Challenges were initiated in 2005 to directly engage the public in the process of advanced technology development. The program offers incentive prizes to generate revolutionary solutions to problems of interest to NASA and the nation.
 This week we are doing another fun guess what this isn’t contest, we are up to 258 of the name the thing contests and it’s time to switch things up a bit. to The prize for the lucky winner is a is a cool RFID RC522 Reader with an SPI interface to easily add to your next project,a skeleton watch, an Iain Sinclair credit card knife, an SD
If you have ever been the victim of a break in you know the sick feeling that someone was going through your belongings and helping themselves to what appealed to them. If you want to ensure that your computer isn’t something that is part of the burglars loot bag have a look at the custom computer case that ultimoistante built, he gutted an old VCR and crammed in a
Shawn McCombs built a DIY RFID Card Lock System for his office. The wiring is a bit quick and dirty but sometimes you just need to get things done. It is based around an ATMega 328 microcontroller and is coded using an Arduino sketch but the controller id hand wired on a breadboard to allow for some customization. Shawn is using the Parallax RFID controller that was designed by
