This hack shows you how to use a Wiimote, GlovePie, and a Bluetooth dongle to measure your car’s acceleration. Pretty cool idea and some nice graphs at the link below. Wii DIY HACK – Using your Wiimote to measure your car’s acceleration!
Charles writes in and shows you how to make a wind powered LED out of a VCR. I was inspired by all of the nonsense about the format wars lately, and after breathing a sigh of relief that the HD-DVD Blue-Ray fiasco has ended I was reminded of the VHS and Betamax war of yesteryear. […]
For folks in the Phoenix area, Wednesday night is the March Phoenix DIY meeting, featuring a software tutorial for circuit simulators and a homemade greenhouse. We’ve also got oodles of exciting door prizes to give away!
Beamer writes – I’ve been working on a sequencer project for a while and I got some good footage of my good friend Scott Hansen from Tycho and ISO50 playing with it. It’s based off of the Arduino right now. The first row is your standard note assignment The second row is velocity (turned off […]
This hack shows you how to ad some disco lighting to your Xbox 360 wireless controllers. The effect also works when the vibrating motors go off to add some cool effects. Xbox 360 mods Controller LED lighted mod
BeatSpinner 2.0 is an experimental sound project / instrument built on the top of an old turntable that uses wooden discs that the user can manipulate to create the right beat patterns. Check out the video above for the full effect. BeatSpinner 2.0
Brian writes in… Recently, I wanted to network my media center in the living room of my apartment. I was not satisfied with running an ethernet cable down the hallway and putting holes in the wall was not an option. Thats when I thought of running the cable through the air duct, my 555 based […]
