Wow this DISINTEGRATOR Rubber Band Gun takes the cake for well built rubber band guns! The build log and attention to detail is also second to none. The gun is amazing but the scenery sure helps, the creator is from Dunstable, England and the hills you see are the Dunstable Downs. “Forget the rubber band Gatling gun. The DISINTEGRATOR is the most incredible rubber band gun ever built, capable of
Llamadassa has put together a Bicycle Powered Mobile Phone Center. The idea is great since it doesn’t require AC power, transporting the phone center charges the battery and the battery can also be charged while the unit is stationary by lifting the wheel off the ground. “The one essential thing that a cell phone has that a call shop doesn’t is a battery, so using parts found in a
If you are thinking of doing some surface mount like AnotherHackMember has just done. This Surface Mount Soldering Tutorial video at Curious Inventor is a must watch. Have a look at the other information that is available at this site to understand other areas of soldering and board repair. “video demonstrating Surface Mount Soldering with inexpensive equipment. Includes soldering of a 603 resistor, PLCC, 44 pin QFP, 208 pin fine-pitch
Do you have an old Macintosh computer laying around? Why not blow off the dust and follow these simple steps to do an upgrade to OS X? You don’t even have to spend hundreds of hours creating the source code for the custom microcontrollers that interface the system together since it is available for free on the site. 🙂 “This is a Macintosh 512k which I upgraded to run OS
I have been playing around with my new Canon S5 IS camera. Overall I am very happy at the quality of the pictures especially since they are being taken by me who is on the steep learning curve of photography. I took lots of macro pictures for the Fire Alarm Alarm Clock project. Some pictures turned out good, and some I could never get to look good no matter what
Some of these systems look so dangerous. I wonder what it would take for one of these systems to glitch and malfunction. A slight error is all it would take to kill someone! Kuka makes robots mainly for industrial use and their site is great since they document many of their installs. For example have a look at the LegoLand RoboCoaster.
Congratulation to the last contest winner. The prize this week is a multi tool that should help you hack your latest project. This contest will run for this weekend only (January 12 – 13, 2008) . 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
