Alan Parekh

Name the Thing Contest - 3

Congratulation to Matthew and Joel who won last week. There will also be two winners this week. Giveaway item 1 is a laser pointer pen with a built in 256MB USB drive. Giveaway item 2 is a USB SD card reader. This contest will run for this weekend only (April 27 – 29, 2007) . To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be

PowerFest '94 SNES Cartridge - $300,000

If you have $300,000 burning a hole in your pocket and want a piece of video gaming history now is your chance. Auction Link PowerFest ’94 SNES Cartridge Link “This is the game used in the Nintendo World Championships II also known as the PowerFest ’94. This competition cart is one of a kind and is the only one known to still exist. Only around 32 were made and they

SNES RCA Video Mod

Hack your Super NES to have audio out and composite video out. “Well, I was sick of having to dig behind my TV to exchange the cable from my Nintendo 64 to play my SNES. So I figured why not install two RCA jacks so I can plug it directly into the front of my TV.” Thanks for sending this hack in Sashi.

CNC Toast Graphics

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have concocted a wild toast making machine. Well it doesn’t really make toast, it prints images on the toast using hot air. Soon we will have to jack our toasters into the net so that our toast will have ads that go with the ads on our eggs. Video after the jump. “Recently we succeeded in mounting the hot air gun to the carriage of the

Wiimote Door Unlocker

This video shows 3 ways to open a door, first 2 will give you the been there done that feeling. The 3rd is fantastic, using a Wimote the user simply gives his wrist a flick to unlock the door! Here is the project link, and here is the translated version. Video after the jump. “DIY doorlock system via FreeBSD6.2 + Bluetooth HID stack + libpasori. To authenticate a user, this

Component Spiders

After you are done building a project there are always some extra components scattered about, instead of wasting time sorting them back into bins why not make some component spiders out of the extra parts. “Years ago when I was in school, I got most of my parts from snipping or desoldering them off of junked curcuitboards, or from taking apart old equipment. One day I took some of the

Hydrogen Fuel Cell RC Car

This Hydrogen Fuel Cell RC Car Upgrade Kit is one of the coolest RC cars kits I have seen in a long time. It is pricey though, hopefully when these hydrogen fuel cells become more common place the price will come down to earth. Video after the jump “The H-cell is a unique integration “upgrade” kit for electric hobby R/C cars, designed as a drop in unit that can fit