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Hacked GadgetsHacked GadgetsMany articles about hacking gadgets. Examples of extreme technology. DIY projects describing how to build electronic projects. Fun top 5 and top 10 lists. Articles
Surface Mount Soldering Tutorial
2008-01-14 21:06:00 If you are thinking of doing some surface mount like AnotherHackMember has just done. This Surface Mount Soldering Tutorial video at Curious Inventor is a must watch. Have a look at the other information that is available at this site to understand other areas of soldering and board repair. “video demonstrating Surface Mount Soldering with inexpensive ...
There are car guys and there are real car guys
2008-01-14 18:01:00 Now I have bought cars based on gas mileage and kept the tires inflated correctly, the engine tuned, etc. but this guy has really taken it to the limit. Bajoos says it took 250 hours and $400.00. At $3.10+ per gallon in New Jersey really wouldn’t take long to see a payback. Read down ... More About: Guys , Real
Macintosh 512k Upgraded to run OS X - 24th Anniversary Macintosh Project
2008-01-14 12:23:00 Do you have an old Macintosh computer laying around? Why not blow off the dust and follow these simple steps to do an upgrade to OS X? You don’t even have to spend hundreds of hours creating the source code for the custom microcontrollers that interface the system together since it is available for ... More About: Anniversary , Project , Graded
Photo Studio Lighting on the Cheap
2008-01-13 12:13:00 I have been playing around with my new Canon S5 IS camera. Overall I am very happy at the quality of the pictures especially since they are being taken by me who is on the steep learning curve of photography. I took lots of macro pictures for the Fire Alarm Alarm Clock project. Some pictures ... More About: Photo , Lighting , Studio , Cheap
Fun with Robotic Arms
2008-01-12 12:09:00 Some of these systems look so dangerous. I wonder what it would take for one of these systems to glitch and malfunction. A slight error is all it would take to kill someone! Kuka makes robots mainly for industrial use and their site is great since they document many of their installs. For example have ... More About: Robotic , Arms
Name the Thing Contest - 35
2008-01-12 07:01:00 Congratulation to the last contest winner. The prize this week is a multi tool that should help you hack your latest project. This contest will run for this weekend only (January 12 - 13, 2007) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what ... More About: Contest , Contests , Thing
Fire Alarm Bell Alarm Clock - World?s loudest alarm clock?
2008-01-12 00:12:00 Overview Ever sleep-in because your alarm clock wasn’t loud enough? With this design that is guaranteed not to happen! This hack takes a standard cheap alarm clock, some interface components and a fire alarm bell to get the job done right. Normally these small alarm clocks use a piezo buzzer to attempt to wake ... More About: World , Clock , Fire , Alarm , Bell
Simple LED Color Sensor
2008-01-11 17:56:00 This is a pretty interesting walk though on how to process and read the microvoltage that an LED will put out when exposed to a light source . Who says you can’t teach an old component new tricks? “Hook up a high-quality ultra-bright red LED by itself (no battery or other circuitry) ... More About: Color , Simple , Sensor
Lawn Art
2008-01-11 12:22:00 I have a neighbor who keeps his yard immaculate. I have even caught him trimming his lawn with a pair of scissors. I want to add this, and get the whole block talking. But why not get the real thing.
Surveyor SVR-1 Robot going to the Moon?
2008-01-10 12:26:00 Surveyor Corporation is working on some cool tech. They are building some of the most advanced robots available in a tiny package. Unlike most other companies they have a build journal that is open to the public that lets us follow the progress of the project. Of course this journal also documents the issues and ... More About: Robot , Moon , The Moon , Surveyor
iPod Touch VOIP Phone Calls
2008-01-09 12:14:00 The iPod Touch is hardware is very similar to the iPhone . Some smart guys at Touch Mods have developed a way to use the iPod Touch as a VOIP phone! Thanks John. More About: Ipod , Voip , Calls
Guerilla Drive-In Theater
2008-01-09 05:16:00 Projector, Old stereo, laptop, and a few connecting cables: Its likely these are things you already have, or can borrow with a few phone calls to your friends. Have you ever thought of starting a Guerrilla Drive -in, aka MobMov? “With hundreds of movie mobs across the world, the Mobile Movie is bringing back the forgotten ... More About: Theater , Other , Guerilla
Hacked Gadgets Happy Holidays Contest Winner
2008-01-09 02:28:00 The Holiday Contest was a great success! Thanks for the great participation. Rick Crammond is the lucky winner, he let us know that the Bluetooth Retro Handset is something he would like to add to his collection of gadgets, comment 13 in the Is this real or What post was the winning pick. More About: Holidays , Gadgets , Happy Holidays , Contests
Interview with Johnny Lee
2008-01-09 01:22:00 Above is a video from Johnny Lee, a Computer Engineer who has chosen the Wii Remote as one of his main hacking platforms. Johnny was kind enough to take some time out of his busy schedule to do an interview with us. AP is Alan Parekh JL is Johnny Lee AP: Thanks for taking the time to ... More About: Other , Interview
Audio Modulated Solid State Tesla Coil Video Walkthrough
2008-01-08 12:52:00 Lolly from Germany is a creator of one of the Tesla coils that was featured in the Musical Tesla Coil Collection article last week. Lolly has now created a video that walks through the technology he used to build his device. “Overview and demonstration of my SSTC Setup. The RF is generated with a Class-E ... More About: Video , Audio , State
Drag Bike Microcontroller Shift and NOS Control System
2008-01-07 12:11:00 Race motorcycles are fast, mean machines. One way to make them faster is to use technology to help the bike shift and control a NOS system! That is what Chris P. of the Parallax forum did to his Kawasaki ZX10. Chris has published his code on the forum also so that you can see how ... More About: System , Bike , Microcontroller , Drag , Control
Pulse Jet Go-Cart
2008-01-06 12:14:00 Looking for a new hobby that you can work on in your garage and really make the neighbors mad? Why not start to work on a pulse jet go-cart! It will require lots of testing well into the night and when it is done you will need to perform numerous test runs back and ... More About: Cart , Pulse
Hardware modding 101
2008-01-05 19:07:00 Been reading for a while and not quite sure where to jump in? Maybe you would just like to learn more details? Hardware modding/hacking is lots of fun, and can have a very rewarding outcome. For starters, here is a great article for beginners, covering pretty much all the bases. Also Wikipedia is ... More About: Other , Modding
LCD Display Repair using LEDs
2008-01-05 12:12:00 Bob Davis shares his technique to repair laptop LCD display using some white LEDs. Bob has lots of interesting hacks documented and has some cool videos on Youtube. “You first need to remove the screen from the laptop computer. Then you need to remove the metal trim at the bottom of the screen, assuming that is ... More About: Display , Repair
Name the Thing Contest - 34
2008-01-05 07:07:00 Congratulation to the last contest winner. The prize this week is a multi tool that should help you hack your latest project. This contest will run for this weekend only (January 5 - 6, 2007) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what ... More About: Contest , Contests , Thing
30GB Play Station Portable Mod
2008-01-04 11:29:00 PvP_LostKnight from Acid Mods has managed to fit a 30GB hard drive into a Play Station Portable . Once the USB cables has been moved to the inside this mod will be perfect. Apparently there is no limit so a 200GB drive could be next! Thanks Robin. More About: Play Station
Cynergy Labs Project Maestro - Wiimote Fingertip Control
2008-01-03 18:22:00 Cynergy Labs is working on some cool technology! Using the concepts that Johnny Chung Lee introduced as a building block. This system uses the Wiimote as a camera looking at the users fingers to determine what the user wants to do. I can see this technology being built into laptops and other computer system in ... More About: Project , Control , Maestro
Virtual Drums via Real-Time Stereovision 3D Tracking
2008-01-03 12:21:00 Matthieu Aubry, Julien Rouvière and Xavier Maurice have developed a drum system that uses two cameras to track drum sticks in real-time. This allows the player to drum away on virtual drums, the computer analyzes what the player is hitting in the virtual world and plays the corresponding sounds. Video after the jump. “Video acquisition of the ... More About: Time , Drums , Virtual , Real , Tracking
LED Fiber Optic Art
2008-01-03 03:43:00 Joe over at Hack N Mod took a bunch of our super bright LEDs to create some cool fiber optic displays. He goes over the basic steps in the video below so that you can make your own. More About: Fiber
Musical Tesla Coil Collection
2008-01-02 12:36:00 Here is a collection of Musical Tesla Coil s! We have featured lots of cool Tesla Coil s here before, and a few musical ones but there seems to be a new trend to play music with the spark output. The first video is by the guys at The Geek Group, they go over the basics of ...
Oscilloscope Audio Show
2008-01-01 07:01:00 Happy New Year! Some people celebrate with fire works, here at Hacked Gadgets I think a cool Oscilloscope Audio Show would be more appropriate. Albert from DIMA Audio Visual sure knows how to put on a show. Unfortunately for me he’s in Spain. Albert is a DJ who enhances his shows by capturing the ... More About: Cope
Solar Picaxe Pool Fountain
2007-12-31 17:01:00 If you have a pool why not spend the winter months building something to enjoy in the warmer months? Have a look at this pool project for some inspiration. “This is a solar powered microcontroller driven pool fountain. It was designed to provide an entertaining, pleasant visual and audible water effect in a cordless low-maintenance device. Hardware: The ... More About: Solar , Fountain , Pool , Pica
Energy Drink Lamp
2007-12-31 12:07:00 This is my own personal mod, it’s simple to make, and it looks great. Great addition to my other individualistic geeky items :] ** Before you take part in this modification, please be aware that you are using an AC house current to power the light bulb, AC can kill. So please, for all of us ... More About: Drink , Energy , Lamp , Energy Drink
Learning Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid
2007-12-30 12:20:00 Want your very own robot to learn to do your job? Sylvain Calinon and Aude Billard from the Autonomous Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have made great strides to make that dream happen. Additional information. Read a paper on their research. (PDF) “This video shows how a humanoid robot can learn incrementally new skills by ... More About: Learning
Articulated Hand for under $20
More articles from this author:2007-12-29 12:22:00 Looking for a cool science fair project? Forget the exploding volcano, check out this Articulated Hand project! “My niece Sydney needed help for a 7th grade Science Fair project. I helped another friend’s daughter (Kaitlin) build an articulated hand for a project in the past and suggested we resurrect the project. The build is fun for ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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