Here is a fun project that is sure to spice up your next party. 🙂 Ercost60 built this cool Hot Wheels Basic Stamp Margarita Dispenser, watch a few cars zip around and get a drink from the gas can. "A Parallax Basic Stamp 1 monitors the progress of the stunts using microswitches added to the accessories. If the track is properly set up (requiring a hint of sobriety) and
Solar power is getting more and more popular, looks like they are even showing up in sunglasses! One of our sponsors is offering a free white paper that covers new breakthroughs in Designing Solar-Powered Computing Device. Hacked Gadgets also receives a small amount for each person who signs up so it would also be a simple way of making a small contribution to Hacked Gadgets. There are also lots
This Guitar Bot has a real interesting sound. What would be cool is an iPhone app that would allow rea time interaction with the musical device. "GuitarBot is an electrified slide guitar that is versatile, responsive and easy to control, with high-quality sound. Now in it’s third iteration, the instrument consists of four independent single-stringed slide guitar units controlled by a motorized belt that moves a sliding bridge. The
Justin Schunick, Mark Hollenbeck, Luke Shaheen, Scott Gillette and Glenn Black from Northeastern University have created one of the coolest sensor system I have seen in a long time. It uses a PIC 18F4550 microcontroller and an array of simple sensors that are made out of copper plates. It can detect hand movements in 3space all around the tops of the sensors to provide an accurate position indication. At
Jeri Ellsworth who is well known for her C-One creation has been working on some crazy projects over at FatMan and Circuit Girl! Hack a Day featured the Floppy Disk Audio Recorder which is a thing of beauty. It can record about a 1/2 second on each track and uses the internal sensor to automatically move the head to the next track after every disk rotation. See that video
Our mad scientist friend William Beaty demonstrates how you can make a very cold substance which acts like liquid nitrogen in your kitchen. With this creation you will be able to freeze and shatter flowers, grapes, leaves. Basically all of the demonstrations that we have seen done with liquid nitrogen in high school. The only item that you probably will have to leave the house for is some dry
Remember the Glyph tracking technology that we showed you a few months ago. Well have a look at what BMW is now doing! BMW will allow you to design your car in front of your computer which isn’t anything special but now you can also virtually spin it around in a 3D environment and look at it from every angle just by moving a printed sheet of paper around.
