Alvaro Mautone’s cell phone gadget allows you to control appliances and alarms from up to 500m away – Want to turn on your home’s heating system before you arrive? Would you like to double check your home alarm from your car — or your car alarm from your home? Alvaro Mautone created a gadget that […]
Perry sent us a link to his latest project, the “AcceLED Pong”. The game runs on an Atmel ATMEGA32 AVR Micro-controller. The AVR read an Analog Devices ADXL203 2-Axis Accelerometer, which controls the movement of the paddle. You can download the source code on his website. [Thanks Perry] AcceLED Pong is a simple project I […]
One of our readers sent in this link to this electric go-kart build. It’s from the same MIT team that made a very cool DIY Segway. The website has lots of pictures, a video, and even schematics if you want to try and make your own Cap Kart. This year, the Summer Engineering Workshop team […]
An awesomely handcrafted instrument with a heartwarming origin, Marcelo Johann describes his “Father’s Synth” – When I was a child I loved music and wanted to play the piano. However, my family had no money to buy such an expensive instrument. As my father was an electronic hobbist, he started to build this electronic organ […]
This cool hack shows you how to repurpose and take apart the cover of Esquire Magazine’s 75th Anniversary Cover which features real E-Ink. Their challenge was to find a way to extend the battery life of this display. Watch the video to see the ink changing and link below shows some pics of the stripped […]
“Interference Laser Games” is an interactive game that is controlled by a laser pointer and can be aimed at any surface that the game is projected on. Check out the video to see this working with games rannging from space invaders to pong. Pretty cool, although it’s pretty much the same as using a mouse […]
This is an alternate build of the Brain Machine by Mitch Altman. I really like the Brain Machine, but I wanted to make a version that does not mount the electronics to the glasses. Also, Gareth send me a bunch of the new Make Project Tins and I wanted to full one up with electronics. […]
