For about a dollar in parts you can make your own Spooky LED Halloween Eyes! Other than a few things you would have around the house this is all you would need. Resistor Two Red LEDs 9 Volt Battery Snap Crimp Connectors (optional) “The two red LED’s are soldered to speaker wire, and then black taped to two short pieces of coat hanger wire. These are suspended in front of
R&D Magazine has put together a list of the 10 most brilliant inventions of 2007, the one that stood out for me was the Honeywell Integrated Primary Flight Display Read about the other inventions here. Video after the jump. “Integrated Primary Flight Display (IPFD) is Honeywell’s Synthetic Vision System (SVS) ― a new product that will be offered on multiple platforms for business jets. IPFD uses cues that pilots already
Check out the cool Binary LED Clock that Hacked Gadgets member Turd made. Have a look at the forum post for more details including the schematic. Looks like this is a great use for some old school 74HC4040 Binary Ripple Counters. Video after the jump.
Amazing AIR-Guitar Demonstration by Carlos Vamos. He is a guitar playing master, the second video is non-technical but demonstrates how good he is! “Carlos Vamos demonstrates his Prototype hand made custom AIRguitar. The guitar neck is from Ibanez, the guitar body was build with the Kind help and cooperation of Marcus Van Engelen. The final guitar asembly and wiring was done by Carlos Vamos.” Via: Make
Seems like there is no end to the uses of old hard drives. This hack uses the voice coil of a used hard drive to act as a Laser Shutter. Thanks for the tip Robo. “We have developed a high-speed laser shutter based on voice-coil actuators found in generic hard disk drives. We have enhanced the shutter with a new driver circuit described below and a notched flag, achieving 500ns
The latest iRobot is the ConnectR, looks like this could be a great hackable robotic platform. It will be available soon for the mass market but unfortunately it is currently only being made available for a select few to test it. Video after the jump. “Don’t miss out on special moments at home even when you are away. The iRobot ConnectR is a fun new way to see, talk to
Check out this cool PIC Microcontroller Touch Keypad by Mondo Technology. I love the simplicity of button press detection. There are lots of industrial buttons that do this exact thing but they are very costly. “This board layout was created using the SOIC version of a PIC16F627A without drawing the usual schematic first. Most of the part values are etched on the Layout. The SIP resistor packs I used are
