HacknMod Wants Your Project Ideas
HacknMod needs your user submitted project ideas. If you have an idea for a potential electronics project, leave us a note as a comment in this post (or email us your idea). We’ll pick the one we like best, built it, post a tutorial and give whoever suggested it a prize (or two or three) of their choice from the HacknMod Store.
To get your mind stimulated a bit, here are a few project ideas we’ve recently received:
- Use a peltier plate (one side gets hot, one side gets cold) to create feet warming slippers. (used here)
- A device that “listens” to the music around you and makes LEDs flash correspondingly. For example, something you’d use on a dance floor. We posted something similar.
- A port tester that lights up whenever an ethernet port is “hot” or “live.” This would be a great device for IT professionals who must check and patch ethernet ports on a regular basis.
These are just a few ideas we’ve received recently from readers like you. Post your ideas in the comments and tell us what you’d like to see.
June 10th, 2009
This is how to use a Xbox 360 controller on a PC for mouse or any game
1. You get a 360s controllers USB and plug it into the PC (if your controller is wireless you have to make or buy a adapter)
2. Download A Driver from http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/download/download.aspx?category=Gaming
Go to-Controller
-Xbox 360 Controller if wired if not other
-Pick the OS your using
-And finally pick English
If done correctly then when controller is connected when you press down on the Xbox Guide button it will come up on the computer screen with the Xbox Live Account Logo
3. Download Pinnacle Game Profiler from
http://www.pinnaclegameprofiler.com/
and this is completely free apart from the controllers and is easy just get to know the program and it is basic