I had great fun working on a cool Multimeter Clock project which got picked up by Design News for their Gadget Freak series. I thought it would be cool to have a clock that looks like an old Simpson 260 multimeter. The clock consists of three multimeters, the first meter displays hours, the second displays minutes and the last displays seconds. A 16F628A PIC microcontroller keeps track of time and
Adam Greig from Negative Acknowledge has developed a nice Nerf Sentry Gun, he used the NERF Vulcan which was the same gun I was thinking of using for my Nerf Gun project which is currently being finished but it was quite a bit more than the knock off that I ended up using. Via: Hack a Day “The gun itself is now running off a 3-cell lipo pack, which about
This mbed RFID Tweeter project really shows off the power of the mbed microcontroller platform. With a relativity small program this project is able to read RFID tags and communicate with Twitter to send messages under specific circumstances. The mbed is based on an ARM processor, you can find the full impressive datasheet here (PDF). Video after the jump “Hardware Components For this example, we use: An mbed! An ID-12
Here are a number of quick links from the email bag here at Hacked Gadgets. Thanks for sending in all your great projects and links to cool sites. iPod Touch Internet Remote Ham Radio Station LINK “Using an iPod Touch as a ham radio station from anywhere in the world (via WIFI). Cool combination of the old school & new school.” Thanks Victor. NXT Rover LINK “The idea was to
This Arduino Steampunk Analog Watch that Matthew Garten built looks fun to use. The video below shows the unit in action with the Biopunk Edition enclosure. I think that the Steampunk version (pictured above) looks much better myself though. There is no shortage of functions either, you can play some games in your downtime. Thanks for the tip Greg. “The materials used in making the watch are Electronics 1 Arduino
With a few LEDs and some creativity you can put together some very impressive effects. The guys over at Freddiew’s Blog have put together a great video and a how to so that you can make your own LED Light Painting video. Via: Laughing Squid “It’s easy! Here’s what you need: A camera that can do long exposures, or has a “bulb†mode. You can do this with a camera
Congrats to the guys at YourITronics, their BlueRover robot won 1st place in the Digilent Design Contest. `The idea of a remote controlled rover excites almost every electronics student and when we heard about the Digilent contest we realized that we have the possibility to make such a project real. We decided to build our own remote controlled rover but it had to be different from what we’ve seen before. We came up with
