I’m not too sure how I feel about the greasy pizza box, but I give 10 points for ingenuity. This is a great input device for any application that allows you to virtually scrub audio or video, and it can be built in only a few minutes. Make a Pizza box scratch pad
Mark Malmberg makes these really nice solar powered mobiles. He has a few of them posted on his website, so make sure to click around to view more of his work. The mobiles convert sunlight into electricity to animate themselves in improvisational ways. Wireless communication (Bluetooth) is a feature of my latest works-in-progress, allowing the […]
Xbox live has a bunch of classic arcade games that you can download via XBox Live. Wouldn’t it be great if you had a classic joystick controller too? Obviously some other people think so too, and here is a great example of a homemade Xbox arcade controller. Related: Make An Xbox360 Arcade Joystick
This is a cool project from the Volunteer Lab Rat website: It’s time for me to present to you my Table Top Tesla Coil. I had my fair amount of concern while building this contraption, as everybody else on the net start their build with a Java based calculator. At first I didn’t think that […]
These students came up with a great solution for expanding their wireless network. Apparently there wasn’t any power source available for the network repeater, so they build a wind turbine. These should be on every rooftop, in every city. Dan built the charging circuit himself. Essentially the windmill recharges two 12V batteries and the circuit […]
Michael wins the best Guitar hero hack of all time! He created a circuit that takes in composite video, performs signal processing, and then correctly “hits†buttons on the guitar hero controller based upon what’s on the screen – AutoGuitarHero via Bunnie. What is the story? “I knew the only way I was going to […]
Mike writes in about his super-cool Open GPS Tracker. Here is the simplest build-it-yourself GPS tracker yet. No expensive GSM module required – I am using the $20 GoPhone from WalMart or Target. Uses a 14-pin AVR microcontroller, a voltage regulator, a transistor, a GPS module 2 inches across, and that’s it. My open source […]
