The team over at Gadget Gangster have been real busy. The Super GrooveAxe a new product that is now available on their site. “Percussion in your pocket. Feel the tiny boom! With your Super GrooveAxe, the beats will always be with you, so you’ll never feel lonely again. The Super GrooveAxe is a simple to build project that uses a Picaxe microcontroller to make looping drum patterns. It includes a
Hacked Gadgets went to Island Tech 2009 which was on Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada to check on the technology that was being demonstrated. Camosun College had some cool robots on display. Unfortunately the only ones that they had operational were two sumo-bots. The very large GPS robot was there for looks only. That’s too bad since it would have been very interesting to see it in operation. The
The guys over at the Project Lab have made a cool Computer based Etch a Sketch project called Hack a Sketch. Looks like it works just like a real one. This project is basically the reverse of this Etch a Sketch hack that we have seen before. Thanks for the tip Jack. "An Arduino board reads the inputs from two potentiometers (the knobs), and sends the information via USB
If you like classic video games and robots you need to have a look at this Roomba Pac-Man system. At a glance it may look like a fun game where the Roomba cleaners are being controlled by a bunch of remote controls that people are controlling. That low tech scenario could not be further from what is actually happening here. There is lots of tech making these Roomba robots
Rockband is lots of fun. What can be more fun than rocking out with Rockband on your iPhone? Well the answer is making a robot that is better than you at it! This robot uses sensors to look for the blips streaming down the screen and cool simulated fingers to jam on the touchscreen. The Arduino code is available so you can make your own iPhone Rockband robot. Thanks
If you like guitar hero and are into sports then you need to have a look at this Kasabian Football Hero project! Via: Engadget "An experiment to create a giant (three stories high!) guitar game controlled with footballs. Football Hero is played by a team of insanely gifted young freestyle footballers. The game is programmed with the Kasabian track Underdog."
Have a look at this cool PSP GO Mod. There isn’t much details since the creator doesn’t speak English. Thanks Wouter!
