This looks like a fun kit for $64, make plasma balls, light up fluorescent tubes, make sparks… – “Solid state high voltage power supply is perfect for high voltage experiments, like Kirlian photography. The high voltage at the terminal won’t electrocute you, so its relatively safe, but it can burn you, so use caution. Can […]
Good camcorder hack from Dan @ Instructables – “We used the MIC jack of a camcorder to detect when the camcorder is on. We built a low-voltage solid-state relay to detect the MIC jack and automatically turn on and off a remote device at the same time as the camcorder. The solid-state relay is a […]
Here are some photos from last night’s robot hacking/fighting event @ Nerd Salon. Thanks go out to the 111 Minna Gallery for the space and Jennifer / Annalee for putting it on…. Oh, special thanks to MikeK. We need to upgrade the firmware to have the bots violate their 3 laws, MikeK happen to have […]
Mike Outmesguine’s Solar-powered Wi-Fi extender in the latest issue of Popular Science – “The promise of Wi-Fi is freedom–the ability to bring your laptop or PDA away from the anchor that is your desk and into your life. With most wireless routers, however, your life had better stop at around 300 feet, and forget about […]
Shaled2010 writes – “This video shows a working magnetic induction projectile launcher. These “rail guns” as they are almost always called (quite often improperly) use Lenz’s Law as the basis for throttling a ferromagnetic projectile from rest to incredible speeds. You see the arc flash in the gun on the right and the target tumble […]
James shows you how to watch TV on a Macbook & a Slingbox – “I decided to make a project out of getting Slingbox setup today. Not knowing for sure if it would work on OSX, I got everything setup using only OSX and Parallels VM running Windows XP. This took about 2 hours to […]
Jeff has an amazing gallery of homemade, modded radios & power supplies – Link.
