Alan Parekh

CD-Changing Lego Robot

If you are looking for a way to automate the laborious chore of ripping a ton of CDs why not make a CD-Changing Lego Robot to do it for you? “I recently bought a Squeezebox from Slim Devices, which is a way cool WiFi device for listening to your music collection. I was then faced with the task of ripping c300 CDs, and of course instead of just doing a

Squeezebox audible caller ID

If you like to automate everything the Squeezebox audible caller ID hack is for you. Never miss a call again because you have the tunes cranked and no more looking at the caller ID box to see who is calling! “As described elsewhere, I’ve now got my music collection ripped onto a server PC. A new problem then became apparent: when the phone rang, I had to find (a) the

DIY Wood Amp

This is quite a unique looking amp. It was built using a kit from Chipamp.com, There aren’t very many wood amps around… Hopefully heat isn’t a problem 🙂 I would hate to see the outcome if it was. Chipamp.com has some simple to build DIY audio amp kits. This one is a their LM4780 Dual Mono Kit. This is what you get in the kit: “LM4780 Dual Mono Kit Contents

DIY Audio Amps

This Amp3 is one of the amp models from 41Hz Audio. I have my eye on the Amp7, this looks like an interesting design. “I have to say, for $25 it puts out some awsome sound! Takes a few hours to put together though. You have to wind your own torroids. I used 15-minute epoxy to ensure the torroids will be solid in the car. 25-watts per channel at 4ohms.

Collection of Mentos and Coke reactions

This is too funny. I have seen the coke/mentos reaction before, but never on the scale of the first video. The coke/mentos rockets seem like fun too. “What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It’s amazing and completely insane. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one

Video Dashboard Prototype

Interesting dashboard project demonstration. “Give your old car a new upgrade with Ryan Brandy’s video dashboard prototype. It replaces your standard instrument panel with two LCD displays.”