Cool Gadgets

Nerf Vulcan Sentry Gun

   Using some guidance from this page, BrittLiv has built one great looking Nerf Vulcan Sentry Gun! The spring has been swapped out to allow for more powerful and higher speed dart. The targeting looks like  it is fun since it will track people and actively fire on them unless they are wearing the Instructables logo on their shirt!  

Old Apple Keyboard Hacks

    Got a cool new project that you would love to use an old Apple IIe keyboard on? Or how about an Apple IIe computer that you want to use a USB keyboard on? If you have some frankenstien ideas like this Charles Mangin has just the thing for you. His RetroConnector keyboard interface for Apple IIe will let you use your USB keyboard by plugging an adapter board

Becks Beer Bottle with an Audio Recording Scratched on it

    Beer is great and refreshing but I always thought the only thing you could do with the them after the been was consumed was recycle them. Guess what, the guys over at GYRO have made a recording system so they can scratch a recording into the outside of the bottle and then play it back with a player. The device is based on an Edison Cylinder but uses

Sony Smartwatch Game

   How long before all the watches we have on our wrists are smart? Not sure but Sony is on the right track with their Smart Watch! It has an Android OS and is open to allow people to develop application for the watch. Check out this Smartwatch game, there are also some instruction on how you can start developing for the watch.

PiMiner Bitcoin Mining System

  Are you feeling the hype of Bitcoin yet? Instead of having a full blown computer mining your fortune in Bit Coins why not make solution that can fit in your pocket? The PiMiner Bitcoin Mining System uses USB miners that simply plug into USB ports on the Raspberry Pi. “Building this project will allow you to use a Raspberry Pi as a ‘headless’ controller and status monitor for your

  Our friend Bob Davis has just built a 3 Million samples per second 6 channel logic analyzer powered by an Arduino UNO. In the video below you can see what the live display looks like. He is using a 74 series decade counter to divide down a 10Mhz crystal so that he has some nice fast stuff to sample. He experimented with the coding style and found that by

UV LED Drawing Parallax Robot

  Check out the cool UV LED Drawing Parallax Robot that Gareth built from a S2 scribbler robot. “I have replaced the pen slot with a bar of downward pointing UltraViolet LEDs one placed central to the hole and the others fanning out….. This arrangement means that i can send the Propellers internal character-set (no costly data tables) to the UV array and plot to a Phosphorescent screen.”