Here is a nice and simple FM transmitter from David at Volunteer Lab Rat that will let you blast your iPod tunes on your stereo. Full details are provided on the site. “You know these smart FM transmitters you can use to stream music from your iPod into your car stereo? Here’s a nice little project that I’ve made and that you can build yourself for around 5$. It’s my
Here is another cool idea for your old hard drives. The device is called a Springverb, it’s a Hard Drive Spring Speaker. There are lots more of sound clips and videos on the site. Video after the jump. “Inspired by the wealth of hard-drive recycling ideas on hacked-gadgets and the >springverb research posted at Electronic Peasant. When looking at both these pages… this hack becomes pretty obvious. It helps that
After seeing the Rusty Nail LED Night Light I am thinking that Dick Cappels may be the off set name of MacGyver. 🙂 If you don’t have any CAT-5 wire handy why not use some of the wire out of an old transformer. “Those who are familiar with some aspects of coil core selection would quickly point out that the eddy currents would be huge since iron has a low
This DIY Audio Spectrum Monitor by a Japanese engineer looks and works great, there are full construction details and code available on his site. You have to watch the video, it’s very impressive. Video after the jump. “This is an experimental work to monitor a spectrum pattern in radio band, and is a continuous project from Audio Spectrum Monitor. To analyze the spectrum of an input signal, I chose an
Check out this cool hack of the Simon game from Sparkfun that the guys at I make Projects made. If rings of plexiglass were used a target practice game could be made using a small microcontroller. Video after the jump. “This is a Simon game from Spark Fun Electronics which you play by shooting plexiglass plates with an Airsoft gun instead of tapping buttons with your fingers. It’s fun and
Back in November we featured an article where Wicked Lasers took new Blu-Ray players to harvest the laser. It looks like there is now a cheaper option. Leslie Wright used a replacement laser reader assembly as the source of the Blu-ray laser for his Blu-ray laser project. “I recently purchased a SONY playstation-3, replacement Laser reader assembly, with the sole intent of taking it apart, for the violet Laser diode.
Check out this great episode of Amateur Logic TV. Video after the jump. “Jim discusses two Network Tools that everyone already has. George digs into the junk box and comes up with a 9-volt battery clip tip. Tommy talks about using the Burn and Dodge tools to get better detail out of your photos. This month’s spotlight is on the Basic Stamp Microcontroller. We tell you what it is, and
