Electronic Hacks

Pirate Bay Servers might soon be GPS Controlled Drones

    As you probably know The Pirate Bay is always hiding the location of their servers since governments can often cause a huge speed bump in their activity when they want to. The Pirate Bay Servers might soon be GPS Controlled Drones to allow the server farm to not only not be tied to a building on earth but it could be commanded to fly to a new location

Electronic Upgrade for Antique Music Box

  Music boxes are so nice because they play such nice music from a very simple mechanism. In this case the music is still nice but the Digital Enhancement player uses a much more complex method to get the music out. Via: Make and Laughing Squid  “Digital Enhancement” is an interactive sound installation consisting of an electrified Symphonion Brevet No. 28, a synthesizer, an amplifier and four headphones. The Symphonion

Horto domi - an Open Garden project that can be controlled from the web

  Do you like gardening and electronics? If so the Horto domi might be just the thing for you to tie these two loves together. The kickstarter is almost 1/3 funded and there is 50 days left, looks like it has a good shot at getting funded!  “Horto domi is an open hardware raised-bed garden unit with environmental control and monitoring via web-interface thanks to Arduino Ethernet. DIY sensors, such

Sal the Robot Head that can look around at interesting things

     Just like us Sal can look around in his environment so he can watch things that are interesting. Sal uses the iLab Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit to make the magic work. You can also download the code to play around with building your own version of Sal. Thanks for sending this in Lior. Read more here.  “Sal is a robotic head that makes head and eye movements to

How to get 2 extra Pins from an Arduino

  If you have an Arduino project and need a few extra pins have a look at the way that Mark from SpikenzieLabs did it. He removed the crystal and 22pf capacitors then he added a pin header to access the pins easily. To use this configuration you then need to set the fuses so that it uses the internal oscillator.  The internal oscillator is not as accurate as the

Harford Hackerspace Biped Robot Project

  This is the Biped Robot Project that Mark from the Harford Hackerspace has been working on for that past 2 years. We will have to keep track of the future progress since they have a goal to have it walking in the next few months. So far they have totally succeeded in making something that looks like it belongs in a Terminator movie, if I saw this thing walking

Stage Combat Choreography Shirt uses Lilypad Arduino

  Check out this Stage Combat Choreography Shirt project that uses a Lilypad Arduino to control it. When learning stage combat audio cues are normally, Instructables user grossmr1 decided to create a method of directly indicating the area of interest directly by using LEDs. A glove is used to interface to the microcontroller which has contacts sewed into the finger tips.  “Stage combat is the art of theatrical violence. Rather than