Here is a great use for a ton of shiftbrights, it’s a DIY breathalyzer that uses an Arduino to monitor a Gas/Alcohol sensor and display the results on a big row of LEDs. Via: LED Projects “The 25 Shiftbrite modules are lined up in a column, which is connected to an Arduino tucked away in a cardboard box and are powered by a 4.5volt 500mA adapter. The Arduino takes readings from
 Make has a new podcast called Make: Talk. They just did their episode 1, click here to listen to it. The first episode is with Steve Hoefer of Grathio Labs, you might remember him as the guy who made the knock gumball machine and the Knock Lock. Big thanks to Steve for mentioning Hacked Gadgets in the show!
Here is a cheap and easy Mobile Camera Lens Cap Hack using a Magnet and a Coin that you can make for a few dollars and put together in under a minute. Thanks for sending it in Daniel.
Ryan Merl from the Harford Hackerspace needed a coffee maker that did a bit more than your everyday coffee maker. Since don’t we all want one that can accept HTTP requests! With some code and an Arduino this pimped coffee maker is ready to go. “Special Features 15 minute automatic shutoff Controlled via HTTP Requests Status, start, and stop requests Returns JSON for meant for AJAX interfaces Ready and
There are lots of surface mount parts out there that aren’t available in DIP format. Normal DIP format chips and various other parts have pins that are configured with a 0.1 inch spacing. Breadboards make prototyping a circuit fast and easy since there is no soldering involved, it is literally plug and play. If the connections need to be changed all you do is pull the wiring out and
One of our happy Alan’s Electronic Projects customers sent in a picture of their completed Gear Clock. This isn’t a project that goes together in 5 minutes since you first need to build the controller which will drive the stepper motor. Like most DIY kits the controller comes as a bunch of parts and a board that they all need to be soldered to. There is of course a
  If you are looking to pimp your ride you might want to consider adding a Capacitive Touch Sensor controlled Footwell and Glove Box LED Lightning. The code for the ATTiny85 is available so you can have a head start instead of having to figure out everything from the ground up. I think some of the major car manufactures should wake up and move away from the old click
