 This Electric Imp Garage Door Opener is a great enhancement to your stock garage door opener. You can get some expensive garage doors that have lots of these features but with this project you are able to have it all. For example if you would like to get an alert at 10pm if you forgot your door open it would be simple to do. Or why not just
If thumb drives were made 100 years ago it would look something like this steam punk version over at Jeff Avery’s Blog. Jeff built this with his son who wanted a cool and unique thumb drive. Nice thing about this one is you will never be stuck in the situation where someone else thinks it is theirs. The outer shell is made from some copper pipe and an end
 Jared Bouck from InventGeek sent us some information about the latest project he is working on. We have seen lots of his previous project here over the years. Zcapture is the latest thing out of the idea engine… Check out the Kickstarter for more information on how you can get one. The system will allow you to take some great looking 360 degree pictures of products. You have
 I can see the wind up flying pants (translated) become an instant hit. In this prototype you see the parts were printed on a 3D printer and the wings are made of a thin plastic material. From a few seconds of winding up the rubber band the plane can get some great height and flight time. You can see some videos and pictures below of other similar creations
 Camille and Genevieve Beatty who are 11 and 13 have built a great looking Mars Rover in their Garage. It guess it helps that their dad has a fully equipped robot building setup, but from looking at the build pictures I am thinking that the girls actually did most of the work. I am sure the dad helped along the way but that is how we learn right.
Just imagine what type of sound control you would have from your guitar if you added gesture recognition that could adjust effects in real time. This Kinect Guitar Neck Tracking project by Patrick Sebastien does just that! Using the items below allow the guitar to be recognized and tracked, the gesture of the guitar is then monitored, finally Pure Data is used to adjust the sound of the guitar.
This Open Source DIY Cellphone might not be the latest and greatest Samsung phone but it is something that you can build yourself. It is Arduino based and all of the details can be found here. Via: Electronics Lab and Arduino Blog “The DIY Cellphone is a working (albeit basic) cellphone that you can make yourself. It can make and receive phone calls and text messages, store names and
