Alan Parekh

Romo Phonebot at CES

  Marc de Vinck from Make is at CES and is hunting down all of the stuff that we think is cool. Check out this neat Phone Robot called Romo. It works out to be quite an expensive robot considering it holds your smart phone, as long as it doesn’t take a tumble down the stairs I think your phone is quite safe though. There is a developer section for

Motion-activated LED Illuminated Stair lights

Those who are having foot lights in their stairway, then acme663ryo has an interesting stuff for you. According to acme663ryo, your foot lights are having epoxy pools of glass in the knot holes. These can be triggered by any light motion sensor, which in turn drives a solid state relay. The relay during its active cycle switches your DC power supply ON and through which you can connect your LED lights. In

Tamaggo 360 Camera at CES

    So this year Hacked Gadgets will not be at CES but we are following the coverage and will be featuring some crazy gems that we see. This Tamaggo 360 Camera is sure to inspire some new photo taking. There have been devices out there that have taken 360 pictures before but none of them look and operate as simply as this one does. Have a look at the

Laser Cut Hand Bowl

  Check out this cool Laser Cut Hand Bowl Instructable, I can just imagine a ton of laser cutters running today cutting this design out. Penfold Labs designed this using a number of different processes described below. If you are interested in purchasing one instead of building one you can get one in the Instructables store. “Here’s a small bowl I made from interlocking layers of birch plywood. I designed

DIY Digital Salinometer

   Thanks to Daniel Kramnik who is a high school junior from Massachusetts for sending in his award winning DIY Digital Salinometer project. If you have never heard of a Salinometer before you can learn more about it here. The system is easy to troubleshoot since it is completely modular, since it is mounted to a piece of acrylic you can trace out circuits from the front and back of

DIY IR Trip Sensor based Stairway LED Lighting

Instructables member ElJefeUno brought an awesome electronics project of building an Infra-red (IR) light trip sensor to light up your stairway. The sensor uses a directional IR LED beamed at a sensor that shoots past where you’ll walk. When you interrupt the light from the LED, the LEDs turn on for a period of time that you can adjust. Advantages of using IR LEDs includes: safe operation, low power consumption,

Porting Plex Client for Jailbroken Apple TV 2G

Ijailbreak member DustyÂÂhas shared a nice tutorial that will help you to successfully install Plex, the popular Mac-based and iOS media solution on your jailbroken Apple TV 2G.ÂÂOnce you will have Plex server running you can play any Plex content on your AppleTV. Instructions on how to install the Plex plugin are posted on the Plex forums and your Apple TV 2G must be jailbroken using the latest version of