Lift heavy things with a modded servo
Need to do some heavy lifting of the physical kind, but only have some wimpy servo motors on hand? Why not follow Antonb’s directions to Hack your Servo, and turn it into a powerful linear accelerator.
Hacks
Bending the Kaossilator
GetLoFi posted this demo of a hacked Korg Kaossilator with a variable clock, resulting in some sweet time/pitch stretches – Sometimes newer devices get overlooked for purposes of circuit bending. Two main reasons are price and abundant use of SMT components almost too small to work on. The Kaosillator is one such device. However once […]
Hacking Pizza with PizzaHacker
Earlier this week I was exiting an event in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood when I bumped into PizzaHacker and his amazing Franken-Webber portable wood burning pizza oven.
GameBoy Advance universal remote
This morning’s post about remote controls prompted Austrian maker Markus Hirsch to send a link to a project he’s working on: a GameBoy Advance remote control. The project, which is still in development, calls for adding an ATMEL AVR tiny44 microcontroller, an IR diode and an IR receiver to a GameBoy. Basically, the tiny44 and […]
Secret bar in office
I love these makeshift hidey-bars people make in offices…
Make a scroll saw from a sewing machine
Here’s an interesting, if possibly questionable idea. The folks over at Flowering Elbow converted a sewing machine into a scroll saw.
Solar charging station on a dog
The solar dog prototype charger from Erik Schiegg is a solar panel attached to a dog sweater. I’m not sure how efficient it is, but I could see this being handy.
