Ferry, from the HackedGadgets Forum, writes: “I took 30 IR LEDs and wired them up, a SMD FET switches them on and off and is wired up with a pinheader connector to the TV-B-Gone. Internally the FET is connected to the output pin of the controller, which is also connected to the transistor driving the […]
In the same vein as some of the network desk ornaments from Ambient Devices, the “Wable” is a physical bar graph that gets it information from a customizable web application with an intent to visualize it’s owners “web identity” over time. When there is activity on your personal sites like Flickr, Delicious, Plazes, and Last.Fm, […]
Paul writes – Last year around superbowl time, I posted an article showing how my roommate and I had built a stadium seating setup for our living room. This year, we went one step further and added a 2500 lumen projector to the mix to create the ultimate home theater system on a budget… 100-inch […]
Here’s a wiki dedicated to opening up the MovieBeam player, a Linux-based set-top-box recently obsoleted by the demise of the MovieBeam service – The MovieBeam service was a unique system for delivery of movie rentals to the home. It was based on a set-top-box using a special over-the-air data receiver, a hard drive and secure […]
Ryan writes in – Here’s a video tape encoding station I setup using some old gear I had laying around and a Neuros MP4 Recorder. I’m recording the tapes at 320 x 240 at super fine quality and the files produced are beautiful. As a bonus they play perfectly without conversion on both Zunes and […]
Tim writes – Well, after seeing the many houses dancing to Trans-Siberian Music, I decided it was time to do the same to my house. The problem is that I currently live in Hong Kong and in a 52 story building. Instead I wired up my living. At first the project was going to simply […]
The “Expected Curtain” or “Curtain for the lonely person” is meant to make your home more secure by implementing “Home Alone” trickery and adding human silhouettes in the windows of an empty apartment or house. The mysterious figures disappear during the day and only appear at night when the lights go on. This project might […]
