Complex Hacks

Magnetic Levitation Light Bulb uses Wireless Energy Transfer
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  Robin Massink from the Netherlands has built a cool Magnetic Levitation Light Bulb it uses Wireless Energy Transfer to power the bulb. It is always weird to see something being powered with no wires! "I used this globe (http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/98b8/) for the levitating part. It consists of 2 permanent magnets, and 2 electromagnets, coupled with a hall sensor to keep a third magnet (inside the globe) floating. I mounted a

RC Plane Drops Water Bombs
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  The guys over at Flightography have a great rig for dropping water bombs! What makes it even better is their high quality camera that catches all the action. I can think of lots of fun and sneaky applications for this plane. 🙂    

Object Scratching as an Input Device
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  Chris Harrison has done some research on using scratching as an input device. In this video he demonstrates how simply scratching a wall or a desk could have some simple and inexpensive applications. Could you imagine controlling your room lights by scratching anywhere on the wall in the room you want to control? Or a coffee table that has a sensor so that you could use it to control

MIDI Hero - Control Guitar Hero and Rock Band with Real Drums
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  Talk about extending the playability of Guitar Hero and Rock Band! This hack allows you to use real instruments to play the popular games instead of using the cheap plastic instruments that come with the game. Many people say that necessity is the mother of invention and I think this is the case here since it doesn’t look like this hack would have been done if Egyokeo hadn’t hurt

Mashup Mixing using a Wiimote
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  Based on the White Screen Wiimote hack by Johnny Lee the ECC has developed a very cool way to mashup music at their shows. Thimbles with LEDs in them allow them to press virtual buttons on the huge sound control board. "It’s perfect for our Wheel Of Mashup shows, which depend on an overloaded setup of Ableton Live. Because it’s overloaded, it’s very difficult to mouse quickly and accurately

96 LED POV
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  Details are slim on this very cool POV that uses a whopping 96 LEDs. The tiny LEDs are able to make a very nice image, it looks like the images may be stored in the banks of chips that can be seen on the board. Timing appears to be done using an LED, it might be a infrared LED since it would be visible to the video camera. There

Suzuk-E - Suzuki Electric Bike Hack
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  I can’t wait to see some video of this electric bike conversion in action. TheWorkshop.ca has taken an old Suzuki dirt bike and hacked in a powerful electric motor. This isn’t a simple rip and bolt project that we have seen others perform, there was lots of machining and fabrication needed to get it to this stage. An open source motor controller was used which earns it a big