The Western Warship Combat Club is going to be at the Maker Faire 2009 (May 30th and 31st). The Robotic Warship battle is great since it puts ship design, electronic sophistication and operator skill against each other. "The Western Warship Combat Club will have an entire outdoor arena at Maker Faire, Maker Faire.complete with a 50′ x 70′ pond and bleachers for 500 spectators per battle. There will be
We like high voltage experiments here at Hacked Gadgets. You may remember the cool Top 5 Old TV Hacks that we featured before. High Voltage Experiments are very dangerous but can be lots of fun if you are kept safe. Don’t attempt to simulate any of these experiments unless you know what you are doing! The first 4 videos are were done by XTrBass, the 4th one looks like
Today our lives are busier than ever, it seems that automatic pet washers are becoming more popular. I bet most of the pets would not be very cooperative going into the machine the second time! I am all about convenience but how long will it be before an animal has a heart attack in one of these things? Via: TechGadgdetsNews and DailyMail
Ryan from Ohararp has put together a modular Wireless LED Scrolling Display that looks very flexible and uses that cool ioBridge that we are starting to see used more and more. "A uPic is used to talk to the led drivers (8xMax7219’s) through the serial port (in this case an XBEE)."
As homes get bigger it’s harder to balance the heating system. You can close and open vents all you want but all it takes is a few closed doors to throw off the entire system. Jason Clark from Cyborgworkshop has overcome this issue by designing an Arduino controller that monitors sensors in all areas of his house. Servo motors then control dampers which put air where it’s needed. Have
This Led Matrix Dice made by Itay Donenhirsch looks very cool. Give it a shake to roll a new number. "The cube is driven by three 1.5V small button cells (which are sold here as batteries for EasyPark computerized parking ticket). The brain of this gadget is a ATmega168. The ATmega168 is programmed using avr-gcc and avr-libc. The MCU is connected to the matrices using a ULN2008 as a
Alberto Ricci Bitti has developed a cool touch controller called the Touch 8. I can see this programmable controller having the ability to replace lots of single purpose controls that are used to control equipment. "Touch8 is a module that integrates a 3" LCD touch-screen and a RISC processor. The processor includes a powerful library to handle graphics and windows. The module also includes a DC power supply and
