Insane Equipment

Sharpie Printer - PhlatPrinter

Using some colored sharpie markers this Phlat Printer is able to print a great looking image! “Check out the cool new Sharpie Attachment originally designed by fellow Phlat Club Member scraighamilton for the Phlatprinter 3. Here we color the queen of spades. It’s going to be awesome coloring the graphics on our planes before the Phlatprinter cuts them out. “

DIY Pulse Laser Gun

Remember all the people warning you never to look directly at the sun because you will go blind. Well believe me when I say do not look into the barrel of this gun because it will make you blind. This DIY Pulse Laser Gun was built by Patrick Priebe who you might remember from the Iron Man Repulsor Light Laser Glove Project. This is what you get when you convert

Fresh Baked Bread Vending Machine

  There is nothing better than fresh baked bread (well almost nothing). Only problem is that bakeries only make it once or twice a day so the warm and soft fresh out of the oven taste is hard to come by. That has now changed with this innovative  Fresh Baked Bread Vending Machine, pop in some cash and wait a few minutes and out comes some freshly baked french bread.

Toner Transfer Galvanic Etched Custom Audio Panel

Getting a finished look on custom gear is always hard. If it was made in your basement it usually shows. Rabbisu demonstrates how it is possible to make a great looking custom audio panel using the toner transfer and galvanic etching method on some metal panels. The results look great, the only thing I would change is that the dials would all go to 11. Check out the gallery for

DIY Video Chat Robot

Johnny Lee from Procrastineering (who we interviewed about 3 years ago) made a great DIY Video Chat Robot project. He is using a Roomba as the movable robotic platform and a netbook as the video conferencing system. Skype is used to do the actual telepresence. We did an article about the Anybot Telepresence Robot recently which is the same idea in a more polished package but essentially provides the same

Old Soviet Nuclear Bunker turned into Datacenter

Where is the best place to house a Datacenter? An old Soviet Nuclear Bunker is the obvious place for the Datacenter! Turns out that this is quite a common situation. Just a warning, the link shown at the edges of the picture takes you to a Russian site that seems to have more details of the data center but also contains some nudity. The bunkers were built to keep tremendous

Anybot Telepresence Robot

I had a great time meeting the team responsible for creating the Anybot Telepresence Robot. The founder of Anybots is Trevor Blackwell who was featured on Hacked Gadgets about 5 years ago for his cool electric unicycle. There was an Anybot mingling with the people in the Las Vegas Anybots suite, it was being controlled by Ian Danforth who was back at the Anybots head office in Mountain View California.