1. DIY Multi-Room Wireless Music Remote

   
   With the help of some external hardware and a handheld wireless device such as an iPhone or iPod touch, you can build your own wireless music remote. It’s a bit spendy if you don’t already have an Iphone/iTouch and a router, but there’s a step by step tutorial to guide you through the setup build.

2. DIY iPhone Controlled Car (Complete Control)

   These guys took an iPhone and using a special app, the onboard GPS and Wifi along with some serious modding they managed to make a life size R/C car. I bet it was difficult to drive using the six-axis in the iPhone but it’s still a great mod. Learn how it was done in an upcoming post. Subscribe so you don’t miss it.

3. iPhone Controlled Mazda (without gas and break)

   By tapping into his car’s onboard wifi and diagnostic systems, this hacker can control his car from anywhere in the world.  He’s able to start the engine, pop the trunk, lock/unlock, and view all vehicle diagnostics from his iPhone. As seen in the video, electronic controls are housed in the trunk along with an Arduino to help process commands.

4. How to View your Webcam on your iTouch or iPhone

   

   In this tutorial, we’ll be showing you how to watch a live feed from your webcam on your iPhone or iPod touch from anywhere in the world. Setup is pretty simple, basically just download and install a windows program and the necessary app and you’re ready to stream live.

5. Build a Solar-powered iPhone Charger

   

   How many times has your cell phone died in the middle of the day because of its lousy battery life? You have several options: you could recharge via wall socket, via USB, through an external battery or the green way, with a DIY solar iPhone charger. Don’t forget to pick up any needed supplies for this build (including solar panels) at our store!

6. Make a Laser Matrix Projector for the iPhone

   
   The idea is to add some kind of projector capability to mobile phone (e.g. iPhone) that isn’t too complex or expensive. Instead of using an expensive mini projector, I decided to use lasers instead to any bitmap font using a matrix of laser points, which is controlled by iPhone.

7. How to: iPhone as a Wireless Router for your Laptop

   Transform your iPhone into a wireless router, allowing you to connect your wifi deprived laptop to the internet anywhere phone service is available. It’s also perfect when you’re browsing the web but the small screen is too cramped. Now you can easily switch over to your laptop for a larger viewing window.

8. RC Car Controlled Via the Web

   

   Strap on a standard Linksys router to an RC car and you can wirelessly control it through the web from up to 1640 feet away. It’s also equipt with a webcam and operates through a brain comprised of PIC microcontrollers or the Arduino’s ATmega168. The in depth tutorial will guide you through the build.

9. Home Automation Using the iPhone and X10

   Like most people, we’re huge fans of home automation. We’ve even covered quite a few ways people have used Twitter to automate your home. This time, however, we’ll be automating our homes by managing SmartHome’s X10 home automation modules using the iPhone.

10. The Rockband Robot iPhone.

    This guy obviously wanted to break a world record in Rockband because he built a robot to attach to his iPhone that plays it perfectly for him. It works by light sensors telling the prosthetic fingers when a note is coming up and driving a motor to press the screen and thus play the note.

Honorable Mention: How to disassemble the iPhone and unleash your hardware hacking skill.

More iPhone Projects:

• Jailbreak and Unlock iPhone 3.1.2
• iPhone Controlled USB Missile Launcher
• How to Build a Simple iPhone Tripod Mount

Mother nature provides us with countless ways to produce our electricity. The tricky part is harnessing it. Learn how to install solar panels and wind turbines to generate all the electricity you’ll ever need.� Also, check out our energy efficient 110v LED light bulbs.

DIY Wind Power Tutorials:

• GotWind.org is probably your best bet. It’s loaded with useful information to guide you.
• Another fantastic resource to help you is wind power generation.
• To start small, start out with some science fair level projects.
• Ready to move on? Try a dirt simple turbine.
• After that, move up and build your own backyard turbine.
• Canada even published a lengthy article on how to build a turbine.

  

DIY Solar Power Tutorials:

• Build it Solar has plenty of great information to help get you started.
• Before you build, be sure to ask yourself some of these important questions.
• Next, check out this detailed tutorial for an example of the steps you’ll be taking.
• For a far more simple project, learn to generate free heat using pop cans and plexiglass.

If you’re craving even more info, see our DIY Free Electricity section. Need solar panels? We’ve got dirt cheap prices at the HacknMod store. Join the thousands of satisfied DIYers today!

More DIY Free Energy Tutorials:

• How to DIY Solar Panel Installation
• Free Electricity? Yep – Build your own Wind Turbine
• Next Gen Wind Energy you have Never Seen
• Put Wind Powered Wifi on your Roof

How many times has your cell phone died in the middle of the day because of its lousy battery life? You have several options: you could recharge via wall socket, via USB, through an external battery or the green way, with a DIY solar iPhone charger. Don’t forget to pick up any needed supplies for this build (including solar panels) at our online store!

Don’t forget to check out our other iPhone hacks

• Home Automation Using the iPhone and X10
• Car Hacking: iPhone Controlled Mazda
• iPhone Controlled USB Missile Launcher

Steven Robert’s Microship project is a “technomadic” (technology nomad, get it?) adventureÂ� traveling the country with his computer laden recumbent bicycle which is now on display in theÂ� computer history museum, situated in Silicon Valley.

The nomadic research laboratory created amphibian pedal, solar, and sailing devices. They created all this with the help of their 160 corporate sponsors, consultants and many volunteers.

One of their most famous works is the microship (pictured above).� The center hull is made of materials like fiberglass structures, canoes of plastic, aluminum, vinyl for using in river running abuse. The mechanism is used in a way that absolute floatation is used in case of flooding. The odyssey canoe hulls are the ideal starting base for this project.

Odyssey Vehicle Specs:

• 42 pounds
• Kevlar ultralight construction
• 18.5 in length
• Flat bottom from bow to stern
• 13.5â€� center depth
• 35â€� maximum width
• 32.5â€� waterline width

The landing gear steering is situated at the beginning of the deck and the two wooden strips are attached to the sides of the hull to make it stiffer. Gunwale belly is the area in the cockpit area which provides horizontal surfaces for armrests and control, support to the equipment console, installing retractable seat, essential fixtures which allows space to sleep and vertical walls support the solar panels.

Horizontal flat section is situated is front of the open cockpit space which is used for equipment console area with computers and communication gears.� Again, check out the microship website for more info.

You’ll also enjoy:

• All of our robotics and circuitry projects.
• Many of the microship projects are solar powered.Â� Go green and learn how to build your own DIY solar projects.

By simply wrapping a flexible solar panel around standard rechargeable batteries (cheap on ebay) you can create your own solar powered batteries (literally). Simply set them by a window and you’re now creating DIY Green energy to power your electronics.

• Buy Solar Panels and Batteries in our store

“The efficiency would not be that great of course, but having a bunch of batteries lying in the sun for some days could not hurt anyone.” See more of our solar power projects.

“With the first batteries will tricle charge over time, which is not that good for the batteries. A second version, with some electronics and capacitors, could increase charge voltage and reduce charging time while maintaining battery health.” – Be sure to subscribe to HacknMod and receive hacks via RSS feed.

Solar concentrators are essentially just like parabolic satellite dishes lined with mirrors.Â� Regardless of where the sun hits the disc, it’s reflected into a center focal point, generating abundant amounts of power.Â� You can pick up hundreds of tiny mirror tiles on eBay for just a few bucks.Â� So basically, it’s like this power plant in Australia, except in your backyard:

There are two versions of the project.� One is the massive 7 foot dish above and the other involves four mini dishes (like the ones sides of houses).� Both projects have plenty of excellent information but if you longing for more, view our vast amounts of DIY Green Energy projects:

• How to: Harness Solar and Wind Energy
• Go Green this Winter with DIY Free Heating
• Construct your own 60 Watt Solar Panel