Have you ever wanted to remotely turn on or off something in your house when you weren’t home? This time of year the Christmas lights come to mind. What if you could call your house, type a few keys on your phone and turn on those lights! With this Phone Line Relay Controller project that is exactly what you can do. "The administrator should call-in the device from another telephone.
When it comes to USB devices I think missile launchers have to be one of the best additions to the group! Have a look at these great missile hacks. Did your favorite hack not make the list? Leave a comment to let us know. “The following video illustrates how a to translate values from your PC Joystick to control a USB Missile Launcher and fire at objects that you
Our friend Alessandro Valli from Natural Interaction has been working on some new creations. The video above demonstrates the SensitiveAdv device which is a hand that is projected onto the floor and reacts in real time to a foot stepping on it. The hand then proceeds to move away from the foot and starts to write on the floor. Since the hand looks very real the effect is quite
Most people would just buy a regular coffee machine when they need one. But that’s just way too easy for this German tinkerer. He completely built his own coffee machine from scratch: Although the website is in German, there is a very impressing video and many pictures documenting the whole construction phase. Be sure to also check out his other projects!
Kevin Cook documented the building of his Red and Black Sky Attack Rocket. There is no time-line but I am guessing that the build page represents months of work. The electronics are documented near the bottom of the page and there are some linked videos at the top of the page. Thanks for the tip Kevin.
Will O’Brien over at Hack a Day posted this cool iPhone Hack. The guys over at The Part Foundry have made a device that allows you to use GPS with your iPhone. “The iphone GPS module allows jail broken iphones to finally have GPS functionality. This module is in development and will be shipping in February. All software is open source and more applications are being written every day. This
There is something about spinning displays that is mesmerizing. Not a big fan of the music, but the audio effects are well done! “Mechanical scanned display rotating in a 160mm diameter plastic ball. This is the monichrom version with realtime data transferring over a rotating transformer.”
