The ARToolKit is a very cool technology. How long will it be before the Wii or Playstation 3 has a game that takes advantage of this? The demonstrations are simply fantastic. "ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications. These are applications that involve the overlay of virtual imagery on the real world. For example, in the image to the right a three-dimensional virtual character appears
Dave Peterson sent in this cool Macro Adapter that he built for his Olympus FE-310. It is a wonderful combination of used and disposable parts, you would never guess what it was made from by judging the results alone! "Took the objective lens out of a pair of MultiTech Survivor DCF 8×22 binoculars, cut out the center of a Fujifilm 35mm canister lid, cut the bottom half off the
The prize this week is a loupe magnifier. This contest will run for one week (Feb 28 – March 5, 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. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with "Name the Thing Contest" as
If you have a few old hard drives laying around here is Hard Drive Tesla Turbine that can be made in a few simple steps. "Build a Tesla turbine from 2 old computer hard disk drives using basic hand tools and a pillar drill. No metal lathe or other expensive fabrication machinery is required and you only need some basic craft skills. It’s crude, but this thing can scream!
CMCKAYVSTMCKAY purchased some super bright white LEDs from us and created one cool RC truck mod. He drilled out holes in the light bar to accept the 5mm White LEDs and also added some in the front of the truck. Have a look at the videos, they show the process that was used to install the LEDs and show how bright they are in the white snow! Nice job!
This Homemade Round Object 3D Scanner does a good job of scanning cylinders. I like the simplicity of the design that rolls the object over the scanning element. "I modified a Dell scanner in such a way that it can used to scan cylindrical objects such as a soda can or, in this case, an energy drink can."
Using a DVD player screen, a rewired toy keyboard and toy laptop looks like it made a great start to this DIY Parallax Propeller Laptop.This project demonstrates the power of the Propeller microcontroller. Full documentation is available so that you could make your own. "This is a Propeller laptop – with a 6502 co-processor and 64K of static RAM! The Propeller handles all I/O for the 6502 and runs
