Alan Parekh

Garage Monitor

Is your garage not quite up to par in the technology area? Sounds like you need to install some electronics to help out. A Garage Monitor might be what you are looking for. “Need to know if the garage door is open? Need to know if you pulled in far enough for the door to close without hitting your bike? Need to know all this with web access… I present

Portable Skype Phone

If you are looking for an easy way to connect a cordless phone to Skype, this hack might be the ticket for you. “Heres an easy way to make your own cordless phone skype ready, Dont need to open your phone, and you can dial from it as well! All for about $5. Once your adapter is all hooked up, make a call to echo123 and make sure your sound

Old Radioshack Computer Ads

Little did Bill know then how much money could be made selling his software. Click on the ad for a larger image then marvel at the wonderful looking screen of the first Windows 🙂 “We’re proud of our work. So when we want to show someone how great MS-Windows really is, we give them a demonstration. On the Tandy 2000.” Interesting how pricing hasn’t changed much in the personal computer

 Making a miniFM Transmitter

If you need a simple FM transmitter for a project, the miniFM Transmitter from The Streaming Suitcase might do the trick. The instructions are VERY detailed. “We will build a FM transmitter. This will allow you transmit audio from any electronic sound device (such as a minidisc, cd player, computer) to FM radio receivers. To make the transmitter you don’t need any previous experience. We will use a circuit designed

World’s First Hard Drive - 1956

Amazing how much technology can change in a relatively short amount of time. “These disks are mounted so as to rotate about a vertical axis, with a spacing of three tenths of an inch between disks. This spacing permits two magnetic heads to be positioned to any one of the 100 concentric tracks which are available on each side of each disk. Each track contains 500 alphanumeric characters. Total storage

Top 5 DIY Glove Keyboards

The Acceleration Sensing Glove (virtual keyboard) was created by some students at the University of California, Berkeley. I can think of lots of other cool applications for this other than just typing. “An Analog Devices 2 axis ADXL 202 accelerometer is placed on top of each finger on the glove. Additionally, a sixth accelerometer is placed on the back of the hand. The analog signals from the accelerometers are digitized