John Maushammer has created one of the coolest watches I have ever seen. Reminds me of the Laptop Pong Clock but much smaller and tougher to build. Have a look at the pong watch build log for some interesting construction details. Code will be available on the Plans page when it’s finalized. Video after the jump. “The basic idea – from Buro Vormkrijgers – is genius: each minute the right
Kosta Grammatis is a CSU Undergraduate who has been working on an air balloon project for the past two years. The balloon has just had its first flight and all was well. Presentation Video Launch information “I’ve been working on a research project for the last two years, “The Balloon Project” it’s a system I designed from the ground up to take air samples autonomously, collect data, and do it
Treehuggers, this is a post that you may want to skip. Bill Shackelford has come up with an interesting way of dealing with spam. Spamtrap receives spam, prints the email and immediately shreds the paper. Of course in this case everything that comes to that email address is spam but I could see getting some satisfaction if I could send all of my manually deleted emails to a device like
Have a look at the Keepon Interaction Robot , Hideki Kozima developed it and Marek Michalowski gave it intelligence. It looks simple at first until you realize that it has two color cameras, a microphone and an amazing range of motion. Video after the jump. “Keepon has a yellow snowman-like body. The upper part (the “head”) has two eyes, each of which is a color CCD camera with a wide-angle
Bruce Land over at Cornell University teaches a microcontroller design course that has the students get into groups and design cool projects. The ECE 476 Microcontroller Design Final Projects for 2007 are now posted on the course Web site. The projects include everything from a ultrasonic car parking aid to a laser pong game! Hacked Gadgets will be featuring some of these projects during the next few weeks. What are
Are Wiimote hacks a joke compared to what is around the corner? NeuroSky is developing some consumer technology that might lead the way to some intense game control in the near future! Video after the jump. “NeuroSky has developed a cost effective bio sensor and signal processing system for the consumer market. Our wearable technology unlocks worlds of new applications such as consumer electronics, health, wellness, education and training. The
Maverik allows you to fly your model plane just like a real plane, no need to install lots of stuff that the original plane would not have. Maverik will fly the plane just as you would if you could shrink down to fit in your plane! “Imagine that You have already made a perfect scale plane, in any little detail: wings, fusolage, landing gear, engine … At the end of
