Crazy Hacks

Robosapien Dance Machine

  Take your WowWee robots to the next level with Robodance. “The next version of Robosapien Dance Machine, the free open source program also known as Robodance, has support for the Nintendo Wii Remote. You can watch a funny sneak preview video of this new release in action now. ( Warning: this video contains graphic footage of a robot tickling Elmo! ) Robodance already lets you control your WowWee robot

Bluesnarfing

  Do you have a bluetooth enabled phone? If you do you may want to watch these videos. Other resources: Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4 Link 5 “What is Bluejacking? You’ve read about it on the web; heard about it on the radio; read articles in the newspapers… but what exactly is bluejacking? *Warning- by the end of ‘What is bluejacking?’ I can assure you that you’ll

Drill Zapper

  Don’t know much about this, Targit posted a link to his creation in this Hackaday article (comment #16). If anyone knows about some construction plans I would be interested!

Electromagnetic Pistol

Once you have a look at this EM Pistol, and watch the video you will probably want to get in line to buy your own! “# Two coils are precisely pulsed in sequence (350 Amp peak) to fire a steel projectile # Two infrared sensors detect the projectile position within the firing tube # Controlled by a PIC microcontroller # Powered by 8 AA NiCd battery pack # Built-in battery

Completed 6 Axis PC Controller

  You might remember the article of the in progress 6 Axis PC Controller, well it is now complete. This thing is very impressive, doesn’t look like the standard weekend DIY because of the complexity. “My microcontroller doesn’t have built-in I2C or SPI, so I needed to implement one of my own. I also didn’t have interrupt pins available, meaning my solution needed to be based on polling. When all

XBox meets Waterjet

Ok, now I know the first think I will buy after winning the lottery. I need one of these waterjet machines. I have seen them in operation from time to time on American Chopper but I didn’t realize that the machine is so versatile. I am thinking that one could easily make a very profitable business making things out of old circuit boards that would be destined for the landfill