Hacked Gadget forum member Jared Harley posted an interesting VW sign LED project that he did for his friend Toby. The original blue fluorescent bulb was broken and LEDs were used as an alternative light source. Jared drilled some holes in the edge of the sign, hot glued some current limited LEDs in place and voila, good as new. “The plan is to remove the light fixture from within the
There may come a time when you need to destroy the data on an old hard drive. If you don’t want to make something cool out of it then here are some fun video hard drive destruction suggestions. Disclaimer: Many hard drives were harmed in the making of these videos 🙂 Video 1
What do you do when your hard drive dies or is so small it is no longer useful? Easy, rip it apart and make something cool out of it! Here are 5 ideas to get you started. 1) Hard Drive Laser Oscilloscope (page 2) 2) Hard Drive Clock (page 3) 3) Hard Drive Speakers (page 4) 4) Hard Drive Generator (page 5) 5) Hard Drive Wind Chimes (page 6) Find
Seems like everything is getting bigger and better. Why buy a truck when you can get a Hummer. Well the same can now be said for wheelchairs! Who will want a normal wheelchair when they could own a Tank Chair? Check out the videos, this chair is quite impressive. “Tank Chair is a Custom off-road wheelchair that can go anywhere outdoors. Conquers Streams, Mud, Snow, Sand, and Gravel, allowing you
Over at Robosapien.tk they have added some new information about hacking the Robosapien, most of their information is meant for the person who is not content with a stock Robosapien. You might remember a previous Robosapien article where Robosapien.tk was mentioned. Be sure to have a look at the PC IR interface, it shows you how to use a computer serial port and some VB software to communicate via infrared
This is an updated version of the Power Glove mouse we saw a few months ago. What is a Power Glove? Click here to find out. “I had the 4 wires coming from the glove bundled together, as the ones from the mouse. Then I skrewed the base of the mouse into the glove, and drilled another hole that the wires from the batteries come up from under the glove.
Warning this project is dangerous, extreem caution must be used. Penguin’s Lab has made a simple pulse discharge machine that can produce some amaizing results. There is a schematic and many pictures of discharges in action on his sight. The coil gun is another interesting project that sounds like fun to build. “For safety’s sake, the whole setup was enclosed in a tough industrial plastic case, just in case the
