Alan Parekh

Analog Data Logger Project

  Having the capability of data logging is a great trouble shooting resource. Often a meter with min/max capability is connected to circuits that are suspected to act up from time to time to prove that something strange is happening. However even when you know there is an intermittent issue wouldn’t it be nice to know what exactly happened and when. With this Analog Data Logger Project you would not

Waterjet Cuts an iPod in Half

  We all remember the Will it Blend videos, now we can say Can Water Cut It. These guys use a Flow Waterjet to have all sorts of fun. If you ever wanted to see a laptop cut in half, a golf club in half or a blender cut in half Can Water Cut It is the right site for you. 🙂 "What makes waterjets so popular? Waterjets require few

LEGO Rock Crawling Truck

  This LEGO Rock Crawling Truck looks impressive since it is built with the delicate LEGO blocks and pieces that we all played with when we were young. This truck not only looks good but is shown in some interesting positions that prove that it articulates very well on rough uneven terrain. Via: dansdata.blogsome.com

Spiral Stair Wine Cellar

  I would love to have a secret trap door somewhere in the house, not sure it would be filled with wine since I probably don’t even have a bottle in the house right now. I think my secret cellar would be filled with servers and other technology. Only problem with that would be if the authorities ever found it, they would never think that it was installed just for

Desktop Energy Seed Lamp

  This Desktop Energy Seed Lamp is interesting. It uses old batteries as a power source. All of the batteries are put in parallel using two large metal plates and a jewel thief circuit (I prefer the rusty nail implementation though) is used to create the larger voltage needed to power the LED circuit. As long as the batteries all have about the same amount of charge left the circuit

Name the Thing Contest - 80

The prize this week is a hard drive enclosure. This contest will run for one week (March 21 – 26, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. The picture may look a bit obscure but it was in a featured project on the site so you would be able

PICAXE Nunchuk Interface

  Using a PicAxe microcontroller Eric from the Hacked Gadgets Forum coded an interface between the I2C Wii Nunchuck and some status LEDs. It would be trivial from this point to make the circuit activate relays or anything else imaginable instead of just a few LEDs. If you are interesting in playing with this project the code is available.