DIY Hacks

Web Monitoring of Water Usage using an ioBridge

  You may remember the Household AC Power Monitoring System using Clamp Meters  that Jason Winter made which was featured earlier this year. Web Monitoring of Water Usage using an ioBridge is his latest project. As you can see from the pictures he lives in a climate where water pipes don’t freeze. Up here in Canada we are not so lucky. If you prefer the instructions in an Instructables format

Fireball V90 CNC Router Motor Driver Controller Build

  In the past post about the Fireball V90 CNC Router the assembly of the actual router was shown. This time you will see how to make the motor controller to drive the CNC machine. There are many options to choose from. I decided to purchase the motors and control electronics from Probotix since they know what goes best with the Fireball V90. The build details below describe the first

Snoop on Pager Data Project Completion

  On Monday we featured the first part of Pager Data Snooping experiment. The video above demonstrates the completion of the experiment where the data is successfully retrieved from the device, conditioned and fed into a serial port, some special software allows a Windows computer to display all the messages that are being transmitted to pager clients.

Digital Paperless Receipt System

  Keeping track of paper receipts is a pain. I have lost a few here and there and later needed them to get warranty work done. Some stores are starting to offer receipt re-printing based on your credit card number but you would still need to go back to the store and wait in line for the re-print. It would be great if all your receipts were automatically stored in

Slow Motion Diet Coke and Mentos Reaction

  It wasn’t until Daniel sent in the video of his Coil Gun in action that I learned about the cool High Speed Casio Exilim family of cameras. These cameras look and function like normal cameras except they have a super slow motion mode. Have a look at the video above to see what is possible with the camera, you need to stick it out till the one minute mark

100 Feet of Hose - Fluid Sculpture

  Not exactly sure how much plastic hose was used to make this cool sculpture but it is probably at least 100 feet. If you are going to the Maker Fair in San Mateo look for this water sculpture to be on display. Via: Digg