Hackszine reader Alan writes: Anyone who ever installed a satellite dish knows how frustrating it is to point the dish at the satellite somewhere in the sky. I’ve created a unique tool which calculates the dish angle based on user location and then draws a line on the Google Maps satellite image. You can actually […]
A user on the Hacked Gadgets Forum posted this simple conversion of a common wall-wart into a USB power supply/device charger. He used the power adapter from an old Iomega drive and a few common components. I’ve seen several versions of these floating around. Easy to make. Nice to have around. DIY Wall-Wart USB Power […]
YouTube user Starcross42 has been uploading a series of great vids on laser effects for shows and how he achieves them using commercial and homemade laser tech. He has seven “Build a Laser Effects Shows” on YouTube. Be sure to check all of his videos, which include some other laser-related and other cool science and […]
Harry Andreou, a Dutch programmer, got tired of looking at the bloated receiver for his MS Laser Mouse 6000, so he recased it… in a thick magazine. Now that choice might be a little… different, but you can recase it in anything you like. Get creative. Liberate your tech from its drab little cases. How […]
Reza Naima, a bioengineering student from University of California, San Diego, has uploaded a video of his thesis project to YouTube. Called the Pervasive Health Monitor, it’s a Bluetooth-enabled, TI MSP430-based microcontroller board (1.4″ x 1.8″) designed to be worn on a person to monitor various vitals. Reza explains: It’s meant to be worn 24/7, […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes – The last decade has seen more than an order of magnitude drop in the price of accelerometers, devices capable of measuring physical acceleration (often in more than one direction). History suggests that whenever a useful technology makes a precipitous drop in price, unexpected applications follow, and that’s exactly what […]
A SUPER article up on CRAFT from R.Stern! She writes – I’ve compiled a brief tutorial on getting started with Arduino for the absolute beginner. I’ll cover where to learn, what to buy, and where to go for help. Why should you crafters be interested in Arduino? The Arduino platform, more-so than any other way […]
