What Were They Thinking

Paintball Sentry Gun has Multiple Enemy Tracking

  You may remember the Paintball Sentry Gun that we featured last year. Well the team over at The Sentry Project has not been resting, the new version of the gun software is now available on Ebay and it looks very impressive. It was very sensitive and precise before but have a look at the videos, it has been tweaked to improve the results! I wish I owned a junkyard,

Levi's 3rd Annual Powersliding Competition

  When times are tough it is nice when there’s a cool event that can be taken in for free. The Levi’s 3rd Annual Powersliding Competition will be held Wednesday April 15th from 3-5pm at the Santa Monica Pier. If you are close to the area you should check it out, it’s sure to be a good time. There will be lots of crazy sliding and music by Matt and

CNC Sewing Machine

  Does your wife not care about your electronic and computer hobby? While she isn’t looking borrow her sewing machine and connect it to your CNC machine to impress her with patterns that she only wishes she could pull off! I wonder if jinghamjr ever gave the sewing machine back?  

1600 Volt Can Crusher

  You can buy can crushers at Costco, place your can in the opening, pull a lever and viola you have a squished can. Of course you can achieve the same results using some high voltage electronics. 🙂 Bob Davis has the right idea here, he is letting technology make his recycling life easier with his 1600 Volt Can Crusher. All it takes is 1600 volts and a bit of

Tweeting RFID Cat Door

  If you like to keep track of what’s going on in your house why not track the in and out activity of your pets. This Tweeting RFID Cat Door does exactly that! Have a look at the Twitter results of Gus and Penny. The other beneficial side effect is that it keeps all of the neighbor cats out of the food you buy for your animals. 🙂 "Each cat

Vintage Look 9 Volt Battery Box

  If you want a battery box that would look at home at the cottage have a look at this Vintage 9 Volt Battery Box creation made by JingleJoe. Before you pass it by as a quick hack keep in mind that everything was custom made including the terminals. "Here is one of my most recent creations, a "casemod" of sorts for a 9 volt battery. Made all but the

Nickel-O-Matic Robot

  I love complex machines that take lots of complex technology to perform a simple task. This Nickel-O-Matic Robot waits for a coin and then uses tons of servos and stepper motors to print a cool message on a wooden token. "The system was built as a number of modules to make design and trouble shooting simpler. The most complex of the modules is the inkjet system. At the center