Alan Parekh

DIY Arduino Intervalometer

  If you love taking pictures you either have or need to purchase a Intervalometer, if you love DIY electronics you should look into building your own. Nice thing is there is a great new Arduino based DIY Intervalometer to get you started.  “After some thinking, I convinced myself that I needed a navigating menu and at least these 4 different operating modes: input mode: set the various options confirmation

Ecoglo's Arena Stair Lighting

With Ecoglo’s arena stair lighting now you can keep your fans safe and secure. This arena stair lighting is built to prevent trips, slips and falls, as well as light the way in an emergency. Custom designs of these glow-in-the-dark strips can also be made available that fits to any set of steps, and guaranteed to add a whole new level of safety to your venue. Ecoglo’s arena stair lighting is based on the principle of

Frankenkindle

  Glen Johnson built this Frankenkindle to help out his sister who has cerebral palsy. It uses some controls that were scavenged from a different device which has big easy to press buttons. Buttons on the added keypad have been made to activate macros that perform features on the Kindle. It is a bit slower than the normal Kindle controls but since this is a book reader and not a

Instructables member Quanchante shared an interesting project of building a relatively cheap and pretty darn easy-to-assemble step lights made out of LEDs. If you are interested then get ready with the following Materials:  Glue gun and glue sticks Soldering gun and solder Felt or Thick fabric that matched the carpet on my existing steps 5mm UltraBright LEDs, color: Pure White with clear lens (3 per step light) 9v Battery (1 per step light)

WALL-E DIY Track Build Results

    You might remember the Top 10 WALL-E Hacks post that we made back in 2009? Well the DIY WALL-E builders are still hard at work. Have a look at the video above showing the tracks that Michael from the WALL-E Builders group is working on. UPDATE (January 6, 2012): Thanks to Michael for sending in some of the build pictures.    

Access your Apple TV 1st Generation via FTP

 Picture courtesy of Omoon at Flickr ÂÂWhat if you have an FTP server in your Apple TV? Don’t you think it will be great to have a server sitting in your AppleTV (with Mac/Windows OS) that will take care of all your file transfers easily and quickly.  Appletvhacks member Ruben has brought out a nice tutorial the help of which you can install ÂÂand Configure a FTP Server