2017

ESP8266 WiFi Jammer

This ESP8266 – WiFi Jammer will give you an easy way to play around with easilly booting devices off your wifi network. “Here is the $8 DIY Wifi hacker to try for yourself. This wifi jammer is so tiny you can fit into pocket. and carry it anywhere. it can powered through your power bank. You can perform multiple types of deauth attack, random beacon spam, beacon spam attack.”

Inside the TESLA Model S Battery

    jehugarcia shows us what is Inside the TESLA Model S Battery. There are lots of bolts holding the battery pack together. Why are they ripping apart this huge battery? To make smaller battery packs to power other electric cars. As you can see from the video this pack is built like a tank. It is not meant to be services since it is all glued together. With a bit

DIY Plasma Cutter Notcher

  Make it Extreme shows us how he built this DIY Plasma Cutter Notcher. The video shows the interesting build process. The end result is a great looking jig that handles the plasma cutter with precision.  End end result is a compact machine that can easily make very repeatable pipe notches and cuts.    

UNI-T UT61E Backlight Touch Mod

    CubeAMSPro100 has completed a UNI-T UT61E Backlight Touch Mod which adds some interesting features to the UNI-T meter. With a wave of a hand over the top of the meter he can now command the backlight to turn on or off. This isn’t a simple hack and it involved installing a custom PCB to handle the magic.  

Add LED Backlight to a LCD Display

  Kerry Wong shows us how he makes some of his older gear a bit more usable by increasing the readability of the displays by Adding LED Backlight to the LCD Display. Turns out the LCD used some low intensity 5mm LEDs that were simply mounted in a way such that the light was directed through the rear of the display.    

Arduino Controlled Industrial Stepper

  AvE shows us that you don’t always need a complex expensive setup to drive industrial equipment. A simple Arduino setup is shown here to perform some simple stepper manipulation. The Arduino is connected directly to the Stepper driver which handles all of the complex microstepping etc. All the Arduino needs to do is enable it, chose a direction and pulse some steps at it. The result is a nice

POP Bottle Rockets

    Pop bottles normally find their way into the trash or recycling but if you have some time you can make some interesting rockets with them. The 2 stage water rocket above was launched to a height of 864 feet.   This one quick to build the rocket portion, most of the bottle work is for looks and a bit of stable flight purpose. The neck of the bottle