Here is a collection of Musical Tesla Coils! We have featured lots of cool Tesla Coils here before, and a few musical ones but there seems to be a new trend to play music with the spark output. The first video is by the guys at The Geek Group, they go over the basics of how it works, there are lots of cool examples of the circuit at work
Happy New Year! Some people celebrate with fire works, here at Hacked Gadgets I think a cool Oscilloscope Audio Show would be more appropriate. 🙂 Albert from DIMA Audio Visual sure knows how to put on a show. Unfortunately for me he’s in Spain. Albert is a DJ who enhances his shows by capturing the image from an oscilloscope using a camcorder, he then projects the image on screens for
If you have a pool why not spend the winter months building something to enjoy in the warmer months? Have a look at this pool project for some inspiration. “This is a solar powered microcontroller driven pool fountain. It was designed to provide an entertaining, pleasant visual and audible water effect in a cordless low-maintenance device. Hardware: The basic hardware design has the following features: – Low-voltage battery powered –
Want your very own robot to learn to do your job? Sylvain Calinon and Aude Billard from the Autonomous Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have made great strides to make that dream happen. Additional information. Read a paper on their research. (PDF) “This video shows how a humanoid robot can learn incrementally new skills by interacting with a human instructor. By using active teaching methods that
Looking for a cool science fair project? Forget the exploding volcano, check out this Articulated Hand project! “My niece Sydney needed help for a 7th grade Science Fair project. I helped another friend’s daughter (Kaitlin) build an articulated hand for a project in the past and suggested we resurrect the project. The build is fun for the kids and I wanted to try some enhancements on the original idea. Materials:
Congratulation to the last contest winner. Last short contest of 2007! No emails this time, simply reply in the comments what this device isn’t. 🙂 Make it funny, crazy, weird… Just use your imagination. With a short vote the best comment will win the prize. The prize this week will be another one of those cool tiny helicopters. This contest will run from Saturday to Wednesday (December 29, 2007 –
Less than a week left to enter the Hacked Gadgets Happy Holidays Contest. This year we are giving away a $75 gift certificate to Think Geek! Contest entry is simple so why not try your luck. 🙂
