Here’s an fascinating hack. It’s a little pick-up truck with a Dope Cannon connected to it. Sure, it looks more like something you’d see in Syria, however this product was really seized in Mexico where it was being utilized to terminate 30 pound slugs of Marijuana over the border fence with the US. usually when […]
IPOD GPSIPOD GPS
[Benjamin] was working for a GPS business called Nemerix about two years back as well as chose to hack together this iPod accessory GPS unit. He is utilizing an Atmel ATmega324 as well as a Nemerix GPS unit, though he states the GPS system shouldn’t matter. He is taking advantage of the AiR mode on […]
WATTCHER, TWITTERING kill A WATT plans postedWATTCHER, TWITTERING kill A WATT plans posted
You probably saw [Phillip Torrone] and [Limor Fried]’s twittering kill A Watt earlier this week. It was an entry in the Core77/Greener Gadgets design Competition. We saw a little bit about how it was assembled, but now they’ve posted a full guide to assembling the hardware. Each kill A Watt gets an XBee radio that […]
MAKING A PROPANE storage tank HANK DRUMMAKING A PROPANE storage tank HANK DRUM
A [Hank Drum], as explained here, is a steel drum-type instrument constructed out of a propane tank. The name comes from the [Hang] or [Hang Drum] which is considerably much more costly than that $40 or so an empty propane storage tank costs. Of course, you’ll have to do some work to get it to […]
REAL MULTIFUNCTION “SONIC SCREWDRIVER”REAL MULTIFUNCTION “SONIC SCREWDRIVER”
“I don’t understand, you don’t have the technology.” OK, so it’s not actually a futuristic tool with the same capabilities as the one off the hit TV series Dr. Who, but this homemade “sonic screwdriver” is a multifunction device that’s pretty amazing nonetheless. Created around an Arduino pro Mini, [Gunther] really one-upped the last screwdriver […]
MICROBOT FOR THE ROBOCUP 2008MICROBOT FOR THE ROBOCUP 2008
[tioguerra] assisted make these small bots for the world Robocup 2008 in china. There’s tons of info on the Mixed truth forum, however you may be particularly thinking about the bot section. There are breakdowns of different aspects, such as charging as well as IR communication, in addition to some fantastic photos of the system […]
SHOCKING operation MAKES sure YOU have SKIN IN THE gameSHOCKING operation MAKES sure YOU have SKIN IN THE game
chances are you played the game of operation when you were a kid. The traditional electronic toy difficulties you to utilize a tethered tweezers to extract plastic pieces without touching the sides of the holes they’re hiding in. This upgrade makes the difficulty much more fascinating for a full-grown audience. If you touch the sides […]
PIRATE BAY VERDICT: GUILTYPIRATE BAY VERDICT: GUILTY
As you’ve certainly seen on every other site in the universe, the decision is in. The four defendants from the Pirate Bay have been discovered guilty of copyright infringement as well as sentenced to 1 year in prison as well as some quite big fines. This might be a quite essential situation because it offers […]
MEET THE 2013 LAYERONE conference BADGEMEET THE 2013 LAYERONE conference BADGE
The LayerOne safety conference is fast approaching and [charliex] is doing his best to put the finishing touches on this year’s conference badge. Around the perimeter of the badge is 48 LEDs driven by two LED drivers. This allows for some crazy hardware hacking to create anything from a TV-B-GONE to a bulbdial clock. There’s […]
SHMOOCON 2006: DAN GEER KEYNOTESHMOOCON 2006: DAN GEER KEYNOTE
I went to ShmooCon 2006 Jan. 13-15th. I had been waiting on the video as well as slides from the con to be posted, however I figured I should begin publishing before I totally fail to remember what went on. Over the next few days I’ll be publishing about the different talks I attended. Dan […]