Ben Heck has a pretty cool job hacking things together on his Ben Heck Show which is sponsored by Element 14. I just heard is that a full second year of episodes has been green lighted so stay tuned for a bunch of new episodes! I hope that Ben is enjoying the builds as much as it looks, I hope that time line pressure doesn’t burn him out… In this
With electronic parts getting less and less hobby friendly there will come a time when you can’t get a part in a through hole DIP format. Our friend Dave from the EEVBlog has a new 3 axis accelerometer that he is playing with. The issue is that it is a LGA surface mount chip these chips only have pads on the underside which makes it a pain to work with
The prize this week is a cable tester which will make sure your home made cables are working correctly. This contest will run for one week (June 18 – 24, 2011). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with “Name the Thing Contest” as the subject,
Mario Mauerer and Lukas Schrittwieser sent in the project that has been created in the student lab over the past 1.5 years. It is a huge interactive LED disco floor which consists of 640 RGB LEDs. “The cool thing is that each tile can detect if somebody is standing on it or not! This information is process10 square meter ed by a Java program that allows us to write various
If you have a show car you need to see these cool turn signals. They use RGB LEDs to produce multiple effects, lots of the color effects could only be used when the car is in a show environment but this is sure to spice up any ride. Via: Electronics Lab “Why you may ask? Â First off why not! Â Second I take my car to cay shows and just like
PaweÅ‚ from Poland made a great portable AVR programmer. This thing is totally custom, you can see the prototype above and then see the tiny completed version in the pictures below. This is such a nice looking design that you might just need to have your very own. Nice thing is that Pawel has provided everything you need to make your own! “Function description: Write – writes data from file
When placing parts into a laser machine the first step is normally to set the height of the work so that the laser dot can focus on the exact spot that the cutting laser will hit. The dot lasers are mounted off to the side at an angle, it would be ideal if the aiming laser could be mounted directly above the work but of course this is where the
