  When I was living the cubicle like it sometimes seemed what time either flew by or slowed to a crawl. This Capricious Clock by our friend Pete Mills makes the second hand move in some strange ways which makes it makes the seconds tick by the way time sometimes feels. 🙂  “The code keeps track of the 1pps pulses coming from the quartz clock movement, it delays for
 Tod from d’innovative wanted a way to control his garage door remotely. Have a look at his Wifi Garage Door Opener Project Build for some inspiration when you are ready to build yours. If you are looking for some other options be sure to check out some of the ones we have featured in the past. Thanks for sending this in Tod “A wifi garage door opener that
Remember burning things with magnifying glasses when you were young. Johnie Sublett built this CNC Solar Woodburner for us to reclaim our youth and start burning things with the power of the sun again. It uses a fresnel lens to concentrate the sun and a CNC platform to automatically move the piece being burned around. “Here is the parts: Scrap Acryllic (like from my High School’s engineering academy) Metal
 Make has a new podcast called Make: Talk. They just did their episode 1, click here to listen to it. The first episode is with Steve Hoefer of Grathio Labs, you might remember him as the guy who made the knock gumball machine and the Knock Lock. Big thanks to Steve for mentioning Hacked Gadgets in the show!
One of our happy Alan’s Electronic Projects customers sent in a picture of their completed Gear Clock. This isn’t a project that goes together in 5 minutes since you first need to build the controller which will drive the stepper motor. Like most DIY kits the controller comes as a bunch of parts and a board that they all need to be soldered to. There is of course a
Want to be a bit closer to a super hero? Here are some useful yet interesting tricks to use a magnetic ring for some of your daily routines. Some of these useful tricks are discussed by Mikey Sklar from Holy Scrap who has mastered the use of his.  “Magnet rings are useful for more than just detecting the presence and shape of a magnetic field. My four latest tricks
Have you ever been to carnivals and played Duck Hunt Game? Check out the video of this Laser Shooting Duck Hunt Game which shows how this game has evolved using Laser technology. It was carried out by few students from San Jose State University and made the use of laser guns for shooting the eye-catching ducks made up of glass which is makes this game more fascinating to play.
