If you want to make a memorable Halloween Display have a look at these Singing Halloween Pumpkins by davidandora. A video projector is used to shine images onto the fronts of the pumpkins in such a way that it looks like they have been carved. The effect is very real looking. “The illusion of the singing pumpkins is created by projecting animated features onto uncarved pumpkins. It is particularly
Kostas Kokoras built a Hacked Ericsson Cell Phone and Arduino Remote Control System. Kostas broke out the Ericsson T65 cell phone serial port to allow him to connect it to the Arduino, nice of the Ericsson engineers to give us a usable serial port that is easy to access! The system looks for specific phone numbers and a certain number of rings to perform functions, this is a great
 If you like the idea of having a GPS tracking device in your car to monitor the actual location of it there are some devices that you can simply purchase like the SilverCloud we saw before. But if you like to build things yourself have a look at the Realtime GPS Vehicle Tracking device that Sends Data using GSM by the guys over at Cooking Hacks. Not sure
If you have ever been the victim of a break in you know the sick feeling that someone was going through your belongings and helping themselves to what appealed to them. If you want to ensure that your computer isn’t something that is part of the burglars loot bag have a look at the custom computer case that ultimoistante built, he gutted an old VCR and crammed in a
Shawn McCombs built a DIY RFID Card Lock System for his office. The wiring is a bit quick and dirty but sometimes you just need to get things done. It is based around an ATMega 328 microcontroller and is coded using an Arduino sketch but the controller id hand wired on a breadboard to allow for some customization. Shawn is using the Parallax RFID controller that was designed by
Want to make your own Bluetooth Door Lock? Just yank out the stock electronics and toss in some custom electronics along with some code (that you can modify) and you are off to the races.  “To open the lock, we will use the app LightBlue. It has a section called the Sandbox, that lets you control the LightBlue Bean without having to program your own iOS app. When the LightBlue
 We all have thermostats in our houses but how often are they in a horrible place? You often want to place the temperature sensor in a different location than the control and display unit. There are lots of models that have remote sensor capability but they come with a high price. If you already have a thermostat and just need the temperature sensing to be disconnected from the
