Here are a number of quick links from the email bag here at Hacked Gadgets. Thanks for sending in all your great projects and links to cool sites. iPod Touch Internet Remote Ham Radio Station LINK “Using an iPod Touch as a ham radio station from anywhere in the world (via WIFI). Cool combination of the old school & new school.” Thanks Victor. NXT Rover LINK “The idea was to
If you run a server room or have tons of computer equipment in your house you might want to keep track of the room environment. Invent Geek has made a Open Source Server Room Monitor project to help us do this on the cheap. “The server room environmental monitoring system is a low cost high performance device with the same onboard features as commercial devices costing hundreds of dollars more.
Colin Karpfinger who is also the creator of the cool Autonomous Paintball Sentry Gun has made a great article about Ordering your Eagle PCB Designs. Learning Eagle is quirky enough but after your design is done you still need to learn about circuit board manufacturing before you can get them produced. This is because the manufacturer needs specific files that represent the layers involved in making your board. After you
Daniel Davies has made an interesting Touch Sensitive Car Security Device called the G-Spot. With this device installed turning the key is not all that is required to start your car. You also need to know about the secret G-Spot location, while touching your grounded key you also need to touch the G-Spot location to successfully start your car. You could imagine that a metal screw on your dash could
There are some battery chargers that you can buy which have some built in smarts but the standard ones are basically a large transformer and some large rectifier diodes. The main issue with the basic charger design is that if they are left connected to the battery for a long duration they will overcharge the battery. Instead of paying the big bucks have a look at the design that Razor
Mark Frauenfelder, Editor of Make Magazine and Adam Savage, who hosts Mythbusters will be be putting on an event that you need to put on your calendar if you are in the area. I am told that Fora will be filming the event so if you can’t make it there you will still be able to watch the event. Thanks Michel. “You know that guy or girl who can make
This Arduino Steampunk Analog Watch that Matthew Garten built looks fun to use. The video below shows the unit in action with the Biopunk Edition enclosure. I think that the Steampunk version (pictured above) looks much better myself though. There is no shortage of functions either, you can play some games in your downtime. Thanks for the tip Greg. “The materials used in making the watch are Electronics 1 Arduino
