Fresh hacks every day
We think you'll turn a few heads in Central Park if you're driving a water melon around when everyone else is piloting sailboats. This watermelon is both sea worthy and radio controlled thanks to the work which [Starting Electronics] put into it. We used this image because it shows you what's inside of the hull, but you don't want to miss the thing motoring around an above-ground swimming pool … [Read more...]
Members of Sector67 tried their hands at laser cut gingerbread houses. The Madison, Wisconsin based hackerspace is using the tabbed box method of assembly for the corners of the structure. They've also put up a bunch of information about laser settings and published the recipe used to mix up a sheet of gingerbread. This quite a bit more info than was provided with the project we saw a couple of … [Read more...]
This sexy beast is [DeFex's] new silent home theater PC. To give you an idea of scale, that motherboard is a Mini ITX form factor. Mounted below it is the solid state drive which is an SLC version chosen because they tend to last longer than the MLC variety. This distinction comes with a price tag that is $100 more expensive. But we digress. It's the custom case that really caught our eye with … [Read more...]
There are a number of things that can go wrong with an automatic ice maker. But one of the more common problems is that the motor which scoops the ice out of the integrated trays can burn out after years of use. [Dave] recently repaired a common ice maker motor and shows us how cheap and easy it can be. See how he did it in the video after the break. Pictured above is the motor and gear box … [Read more...]
[Dmitry Narkevich] likes a strong cup of tea and his method of getting there is to oscillate the tea bag as it steeps. But why take the time to do this when you can make an Arduino brew your tea for you. As you can see, he rigged up a system to move the tea bag as it steeps in his metal bottle. The motion is provided by a hobby servo connected to an Arduino. This makes timing the process very … [Read more...]
Some PCB production houses - Seeed Studio and itead studio, especially - allow you to upload a gerber file and receive a printed circuit board very inexpensively. The pricing structure for these board houses is based on predesignated board sizes - 5cm square or 5x10 cm - and sometimes a project is just too small to justify buying a full 25 square centimeters of board. This is where panelizing … [Read more...]
[Paul] had been kicking around his idea of a perfect computer desk for some time, and when given the opportunity to remodel his office decided it was time to build his dream computer case. The desk itself is made of hickory with a formica top to match the other workbenches in [Paul]'s workspace, The two largest drawers house an ATX motherboard, power supply, disk drives, and a pair of CD … [Read more...]
Subscribe for weekly videos
Recent comments