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[Dave] just can’t seem to get enough of modifying his new car. Where he lives, it’s typically dark on his ride home from work and he finds himself dropping things on the floor of his car all too often. Nissan decided not to include lighting in the Juke’s foot well or glove box, so [Dave] decided that he needed to rectify the situation. As you might have noticed by his previous tinkering, … [Read more...]
Siri can make appointments, tell you the weather, but now she can start your car as well! After we showed you how Siri could be hacked to use a custom proxy and execute custom commands, we knew it wouldn’t be long before additional hacks would start rolling in. [Brandon Fiquett] thought it would be great if Siri could remotely control his car, so he built this functionality into Siri using … [Read more...]
[Jbremnant] wanted to try his hand with ANT+ wireless networks. This protocol is designed for light-weight and low-power consumer electronics, like heart rate chest straps and bicycle computers (Garmin brand devices for example). There are already libraries out there for Arduino, but [Jbremnant] found that most of them were written as slave-only code. He set out to use an MSP430 to drive a fully … [Read more...]
This dorm room is ready to entertain, thanks in part to the LED wall sconces that [Joseph] hacked together. Inside each fixture you'll find three 3-Watt LED modules. For proper heat dissipation he mounted them on sheet metal which he cut out, including some fingers for additional surface area. The shape for the heat sink was chosen to fit behind the diffuser of the sconce, which is an … [Read more...]
This is a screenshot from a video tutorial on making your own prosthetic parts from 2-liter soda bottles. The opaque white part is a mold made of plaster. It's a representation of the wearer's limb, and provides the hard, heat-resistant form necessary for this manufacturing technique. You can see the clear plastic soda bottle which fits over the form after the bottom was removed. A heat gun … [Read more...]
[Brainiac27] isn't going to let the absence of sun prevent him from biking. He has no trouble lighting his path with this 1300 Lumen bike light he built. The light source is a 3-up star by Cree. It puts off a lot of light, but also generates quite a bit of heat which is the reason for that large heat sink. It is meant to be used with a CPU but works well for this purpose thanks to the adhesive … [Read more...]
Sure, [Stan] could have bought a nice full-frame DSLR like a Canon 5D or a Nikon D3, but where's the fun in that when he could build his own digital camera? The build isn't done yet, but [Stan] did manage to take a few sample pics. The 14 Megapixel sensor [Stan] found was originally used for benchtop applications. There isn't any reason it can't be used for photography, so all that needed to be … [Read more...]
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