DIY Perks hacked an old damaged laptop into a great looking desktop PC. The PC used has a damaged screen and was purchased for just $15. The guts were removed from the plastic laptop case but when exposed the tiny existing processor fan and heatsink was very loud. Replacing the fan and heatsink with a larger unit the system is now silent. The end result is a great looking
Naomi ‘SexyCyborg’ Wu is a Maker and hardware enthusiast from China. She uses a 3D printer to make clothing such as bras and custom electronic skirts. She has a Patreon if you would like to support her. Looks like open hardware and Hack a Day shirts are in regular rotation! “I build FashionTech Wearables and other cool things then share the Open Source plans online, I write about life in
We have seen safe cracking robots before but they never get old. The guys at Spark Fun made a great one. It would be funny to  see a CCTV video of a vault heist that uses some technology like this. The safe cracker could setup his rig and read a magazine while the technology did the hard work. Via: Adafruit “Nathan Seidle’s wife gave him this already
Upgrdman shows us how to make an Infrared Transmitter Arduino Home Automation system. This system uses a very high power wide range IR LED so that it would be great to be placed in the general area of the equipment you would like to control. If you are interested in making your own the example code is provided. “In this video I show an easy and low-cost way to
Bigclive shows us what is inside a Arbra Dynamite Exploder.  The unit is completely powered by the turn handle. It is actually quite nice since it will indicate that the circuit resistance is when the handle is spun. The max firing voltage is around 1000 volts. To fire you simply press the fire button as turning the handle while pressing the fire button. When the fire voltage is reached the
Jeremy Cook built this walking robot using a bunch of custom cut Polycarbonate for legs and gears. The brain is Arduino based and GoPro camera in the head. The motors are controlled via a few off the shelf H-Bridge modules. Controlling the robot is done via bluetooth. Lots of time and thought went into this robot creation and it shows. It looks great walking around the beach .
Rachel Dipirro and Jonathan Lo made an interesting Talking Multimeter Project for their Cornell University ECE 4760 Final Project. The multimeter is built around a PIC32MX250F128B. This is not a robust product that will be replacing your desktop multimeter since the range is not that great. For example it can just read resistance between 0 and 50K and voltage up to 10 volts. This range is fine for
