I bet you thought your cell phone was the only thing with custom ringtones. Jason Poel Smith wrote in with his Doorbell with Custom Ringtones that he built using a Radio Shack Recording Module. “Most doorbells just make a simple generic tone. But I thought that it would be fun to modify a door bell so that it has a customizable ringtone. That way you can set it to play music
 Kelvin Doe who is also known as DJ Focus is a 15-Year-Old living in Sierra Leone. His community is not developed, for example the power only works one day a week. He has built an ton of electronic projects, the incredible thing is that since there is no Radio Shack handy he has to find his parts in trash cans. He also takes things apart to see how
If you want to help a great movie get made you might want to through a few dollars towards The Root Kit movie by Jonathan Schiefer. I just recently heard about this on Frame Rate (go to 3:10 to see the interview about the movie) and the plot sounds great. They are going to make it on a shoestring budget as far as movies are concerned but based on
What is the voltage on a AA battery? It would be around 1:30PM if you were using this voltmeter! A PICAXE 18M2 microcontroller is used to read an analog value, calculate what time it represents and then uses a stepper motor to spin the adjustment knob to have the clock show the voltage using the hour and minute hands. 🙂 Read more about the Analog Clock Voltmeter “The max
Thanks to David Powell from the Baltimore Hackerspace for sending in some details about the Lasershark which is a Laser Projector Project. It uses a LPC1343 – 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller to run the show, make sure you watch the video below to see this thing in action! “This board is intended to be a low cost open-source USB Showcard for folks who want to make their own 1
 The prize this week is a credit card knife, it has a ton of features to get you out of a jam in a network closet or your next camping trip. This contest will run for one week (November 18 – 23, 2012). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please do not give
 A ATTiny24 is running the show here. This POV Wheel Display for a Longboard from ch00ftech looks like it took quite a bit of time to put together. Those tiny surface mount parts on the home made board must have taken a steady have to get right! There are more LEDs than microsontroller outputs but instead of using a serial to parallel chip to do the work the
