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

Similarly, the car seen above was built in Japan. Don’t miss our solar power and DIY free energy projects:

• DIY Energy Efficient LED Light Bulbs
• Make your own Backyard Solar Concentrator
• How to: DIY Solar and Wind Energy Tutorial

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.