I have seen lots of crazy car hacks but this Disappearing Car Door is out of this world. It reminds me of the plasma screen that hides under the bed. Thanks to digitalELPH for digging up some more information about this car. It was actually a concept car that was made in 1993 and was recently put up on Ebay. Not sure what the reserve bid was but $25,300
Congratulation to winner of the last contest. The prize this week is a mini tripod, have fun snapping pictures of your latest hack with it. 🙂 This contest will run for this weekend only (July 21 – 22, 2007) . 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
If you want some robotic assistance to flush the toilet this Robo Flush Toilet that Joe from Grand Idea Studio put together may be just the ticket. Video after the jump. Via: Make
Scott Amron sent in some of his cool (but wierd) Die Electrical art. My favorite is the glass vase. “A DIELECTRIC IS AN INSULATING MATERIAL. IT DOES NOT CONDUCT ELECTRICITY. THE “DIE ELECTRIC” EXPERIMENT MAKES USE OF AC POWER PLUGS AND SOCKETS LESS THE FLOW OF ELECTRICITY. ”
If you have an old Dreamcast console that you aren’t playing anymore you might want to make a Dreamcast Guitar. “I made my dream guitar… A dream cast guitar… It took about a week to make. Theres only 3 strings because the others broke. Also I hear guys dig chicks with soldering iron burns.” Thanks for sending it in Flooky.
Our friends over at DIY Live have come up with a top 10 list of Disposable Camera Mods, my favorite is the mini rail gun mod. ” This is a fun and non-dangeros project for those people who like to throw projectiles magnetically. It simply works by placing a ferromagnetic projectile at one end of a coil and pulsing some power in it. The trick is to switch off power
Carlos, David and Kanwen from McGill University developed a cool voice recognition system using a FPGA development system. Video after the jump. “My team (David and Kanwen) and I implemented a speech recognition system on an FPGA development board (Altera DE2 Board) for the Design Project course at McGill (ECSE 949). We did this in two step: first we wrote a prototype for the algorithm in MATLAB (I’ll may be
