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 | DIY Star Trek Automatic Door
Who hasn't dreamed of have a Star Trek style automatic door in their home (complete with "wooshing" noise)? Now you can build your own with the help of this DIY project and some pneumatics. The pnematic system uses an air compressor, a piston,... |
 | Superb DIY Interactive Dance Floor
Learn how to build a custom interactive dance floor measureing 13x8 feet and containing 160 RGB LED illuminated squares. The project features eight microcontrollers which manage the LEDs, eight weight sensors, and an FPGA. The pressboard base... |
 | Electric Mountain Board with Wireless Control
As though an electric mountain board isn’t cool enough for zipping around, this industrious inventor just added wireless control. We previously featured Andres Guzman's mountain board which, at the time, was controlled via a PlayStation... |
 | DIY Project Inspiration: Weekend Roundup
In this post, we'll feature neat projects which sprung up over the weekend. Unlike our traditional posts of DIY projects, we're posting these links for your DIY project building inspiration.
1. How to: MC Escher Perpetual Motion
MC Escher is... |
 | See-Through Desktop PC and Gaming Desk
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I was inspired by one of the previous see-through computer desks posted on HacknMod, but I wanted mine to be slightly different. I used my current... |
 | Arduino Wireless Animatronic Hand Project
This DIY Robotic hand mimics the motions of a human counterpart. The controls lie in a special glove which has flex sensors wired to an Arduino which is connected to an XBee radio which wirelessly interfaces with a computer and controls the... |
 | DIY Home Automation using the Kinect
We've seen plenty of superb Kinect hacks in the past, and this home automation project is paving the way forward for more. The hack uses a Kinect to determine a user's location within a room and control the lighting accordingly. For example,... |
 | Customize your Car's Electronics using Arduino
Vehicles these days come with a lot of electronics but you can learn from our collection of car hacks to add your own custom features. For example, take the Jeep Wrangler and put in a couple of Arduinos, an LCD display, shift registers, relays,... |
 | Life Size Android Robot running Android OS
The Android OS is going places. And now, just as its name suggests, it has gone into a robot. This Android robot was showcased as the world's first life-size robot which runs on Android. Wearing the typical green suit, the almost 4 feet tall robot... |
 | How to: DIY Swarm of Aerial Robots!
This Linux-based "swarming micro air vehicle" project is a fairly simple, yet impressive build. The robotics project uses a fleet of micro-light flying robots to made out of polypropylene sheets. Weighing just 420g and with a wingspan of 80cms,... |
