Alan Parekh

IR Jammer Kit

Fresh off the assembly line… We have a new kit that is being released today. It’s a universal IR Jammer which can be used to jam any infrared remote control device. The Infrared Remote Control Jammer allows you to render all IR remote controls inoperative! The microcontroller in this design allows for all 6 of the main IR frequencies to be targeted making this unit universal. It works by corrupting

Scuba Diving Chair

I thought I had seen it all. If you want to do some scuba diving this is not the way to go about it… Some ideas don’t need to be invented. It looks like the user is tethered to a boat on the surface and probably just hangs on for the ride. It would have been so much better if it was at least an underwater motorcycle.

Russian TV Set Factory

If you have ever wondered what the inside of a TV Factory looked like you are in luck. Looks like there is very little brought into the plant in a finished form. Everything from the styrofoam packaging material to the plastic housings are made in-house.

Kiva Systems - Robotic Warehouse

Automated robotics is has always fascinated me. Kiva Systems makes a Robotic Warehouse system that is simply amazing. Just imagine not having employees needing to go out to shelves to retrieve product but rather have the product come you the employee. That is a cool concept but it does take a ton of technology and equipment. I have always wondered how long one of my Mouser order takes to get

Name the Thing Contest - 139

Thanks to Dangerous Prototypes and Gadget Factory for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a project that they jointly collaborated on. The Open Logic Sniffer logic analyzer is sure to make quick work out of troubleshooting your most complex circuit on your bench. “Features (partial list) Capture 50MHz+ waveforms on 32 channels 200Msps captures up to 100MHz waveforms on 16 channels 100Msps captures up to 50MHz waveforms

Door Alarm

Hacked Gadgets Forum member Alexander125 from Romania is using his ioBridge IO-204 to help him secure his house. “I’ve been recently working on a sistem to keep my house safe while I’m away.Using the IO-204 module I’m building a simple sistem to monitor power consumption in the house, movement(if there is any) using PIR motion sensors and the doors or windows. For the interface with the IO-204 I decided to

Meter Clock

Len Bayles has designed a great looking Meter Clock which is based on the Atmel AT89C2051 microcontroller. The design is similar to the Multimeter Clock that I created.  Len provides the code and schematic on his site so you can make your own. “The software in the microcontroller handles the count for the time. It “talks” to a 4 channel Digital to Analog converter to derive the voltage to position