John Schuch does a Solar Security Light Teardown, the device is to be used in his HackaDay Prize Entry. It often makes sense hacking an off the shelf product instead of designing and building your own especially when the device needs to last in the outdoor elements. John has seen first hand what happens to unprotected powered electronics when exposed even for a short time to the elements on his
The Eyedrivomatic is a system that lets you Drive a Wheelchair using Eye Tracking Technology. Â “Eyedrivomatic’s software is in two parts, firmware for the arduino in the brain box, and a pc application which I have written in processing. Many eyegaze users will have software on their computer for communication and computer control. Our intention is that the pc software will be accessible through the users own computer control
Ever see a little solar dancing flowers on someones desk? This Dancing Pumpkin is the Halloween version of that little decoration. I spotted it in a store for around a dollar and it was wondering how they could make it this cheap. Watch the video to see what’s inside, not knowing their was a coil glued to the base I almost destroyed the coil while with my screwdriver while
Pax Instruments Inc is making an open source temperature datalogger. Charles made a great video going over the entire current prototype showing off the tech inside and reasoning behind many of the build and design decisions. The device is using a MCP3424 A/D, it has 18 bits of resolution so your measurements should be nice and accurate. There is also a lot of thermal management that has been done
Have a master lock that you forgot the combination to? Samy Kamkar shows us how to get in with a nice little motorized combo lock cracking device “Combo Breaker is a motorized, battery powered, 3D printed, Arduino-based combination lock cracking device. It is portable, open source, 3D models provided, and exploits a new technique I’ve discovered for cracking combination locks in 8 attempts or less, but in an even
 The ICON A5 costs about $200K which is cheap by plane standards and with only 20 hours of flight time to get a pilot license needed to fly this plane I can see this open up a great new hobby for some. Here is hoping this is just the first step into making these planes cheaper and more accessible to the average Joe. Via: Wired “ICON A5 Amphibious
Jeremy Morgan built a Raspberry PI 2 Weather Station. It collects all of the data from the sensors and saves to to the cloud using a Google Drive spreadsheet which is accessed using a JSON file. Via: Electronic Lab “For this project you will need: Raspberry Pi 2 or Model B – (Get one here for $35!) AM2302 Temperature / Humidity Sensor BMP180 Temperature / Barometric Pressure Sensor
