Overview Ever sleep-in because your alarm clock wasn’t loud enough? With this design that is guaranteed not to happen! This hack takes a standard cheap alarm clock, some interface components and a fire alarm bell to get the job done right. Normally these small alarm clocks use a piezo buzzer to attempt to wake you up. The alarm signal is hijacked from the clock circuit board and used as an
Surveyor Corporation is working on some cool tech. They are building some of the most advanced robots available in a tiny package. Unlike most other companies they have a build journal that is open to the public that lets us follow the progress of the project. Of course this journal also documents the issues and stumbling blocks that they have has along the way. It looks like this little robot
The iPod Touch is hardware is very similar to the iPhone. Some smart guys at Touch Mods have developed a way to use the iPod Touch as a VOIP phone! Thanks John.
The Holiday Contest was a great success! Thanks for the great participation. 🙂 Rick Crammond is the lucky winner, he let us know that the Bluetooth Retro Handset is something he would like to add to his collection of gadgets, comment 13 in the Is this real or What post was the winning pick.
Above is a video from Johnny Lee, a Computer Engineer who has chosen the Wii Remote as one of his main hacking platforms. Johnny was kind enough to take some time out of his busy schedule to do an interview with us. Alan Parekh: Thanks for taking the time to do this interview with us. Johnny Lee: Your welcome, it’s a pleasure to chat with you. AP: I
Lolly from Germany is a creator of one of the Tesla coils that was featured in the Musical Tesla Coil Collection article last week. Lolly has now created a video that walks through the technology he used to build his device. “Overview and demonstration of my SSTC Setup. The RF is generated with a Class-E MOSFET stage with controllable Frequency. The sound is modulated on the gate signal of
Race motorcycles are fast, mean machines. One way to make them faster is to use technology to help the bike shift and control a NOS system! That is what Chris P. of the Parallax forum did to his Kawasaki ZX10. Chris has published his code on the forum also so that you can see how he did it and build your own if you dare. “During the early spring of
