If you have ever wanted to build an underwater camera cheap this is a great project to reference. The Shark Cam uses a tiny security camera, some PVC pipe, duct tape and some other odds and ends. “Last year while shark fishing off the Dumbarton Pier and recording the catch on a 20 year old VHS camera I had an idea. I thought of how cool it would be to
Looks like there might be a breakthrough in x-ray technology very soon. This article is from the free Electronic Products magazine that is one of the Hacked Gadgets engineering magazines offered. “Removing a major obstacle in the quest to build a tabletop x-ray laser that could be used for biological and medical imaging, a team of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a technique to generate
It seems like everything in this hectic world is going digital. This Wireless Router with Analogue Utilization Meter project takes digital information and presents it in an analog form. Video after the jump. “There are a number of ways to find out how much bandwidth is being used. This being the first pass at a digital to analogue conversion of the utilisation, I opted for simply using the uplink LED
Guido Socher build this Ethernet Weather Station project that uses an AVR microcontroller to process data from weather sensors. Software and schematics are provided. “Using an add-on card to the already existing avr ethernet board we build a weather station. That is a weather station with a build-in webserver. My original plan was to have sensors for temperature, air pressure and wind. I started a prototype and it worked very
This month Hacked Gadgets will be giving a lucky commenter a $50 gift certificate to ThinkGeek. If you haven’t checked out ThinkGeek before, do so only when you have a spare 1/2 hour of surfing time. It is an addictive site with lots of cool stuff. To enter all you need to do is comment on an article between now and April 30, 2007. The more comments you leave the
Floor Cleaning Robot / DVD Projection System We have all seen strange combination products in the past but I would have never thought I would ever see a robot that will clean your floor then play your favorite DVD movie. If you have $85,000 dollars to spare this robot could be yours. “Floor-cleaning DVD player Yoichi Takamoto, president of Japanese robot manufacturer Tmsuk, unveils a new guide and floor-cleaning robot,
This is an interesting LEGO rubber band gun, all it needs now is to be mounted onto the USB Rocket Launcher base and let the fun begin! Link removed at request of creator. “540 rubberbands per minute! An awesome motorized chaingun! The best rubber-band lego gun after the buddyskate’s mini-gun. This chaingun uses a different shooting style. No wheel needed!”
