Circuitry Hacks

Fantastic Liquor Bottle Illumination using El Wire

Fantastic Liquor Bottle Illumination using El Wire

This is a cool mod we found whereby liquor bottles are illuminated by electroluminescent wire (El wire).  As you can see from the picture above, the whisky and liquor bottles look absolutely stunning. Below is a video of a bottle of Smirnoff...
Build a DIY 3-Axis CNC Mill

Build a DIY 3-Axis CNC Mill

A precision plotting and cutting instrument like a CNC machine is a dream for any DIYer. It's perfect for any fabrication jobs - For example, you can etch a plaque or make a PCB by cuting along the traces of a schematic. While a store bought CNC...
DIY Real Time GPS Receiver with Incredible Accuracy

DIY Real Time GPS Receiver with Incredible Accuracy

We've all heard of commercial GPS devices like the Garmin or Tom Tom and even handheld devices used for Geo-Caching.  But...Did you know you can build your own?  A Kinematic GPS Receiver is a specialized GPS device used by engineers,...
Geo-Location Game “Urban Defender” using Arduino

Geo-Location Game "Urban Defender" using Arduino

By using an Arduino, GPS, and an accelerometer, this group put together the "Urban Defender" - A hyper-local geolocation based game which allows users to "claim" various districts of a city by throwing the ball against a wall to claim the...
Secret Knock Detecting Door Lock

Secret Knock Detecting Door Lock

Here's a fantastic project using an arduino, a motor, and a piezo sensor which allows you to both record and detect knocking patterns to unlock a door.  The video below does a fantastic job of demonstrating how it works: It's completely mobile...
DIY Halloween: When Pumpkins meet Circuitry

DIY Halloween: When Pumpkins meet Circuitry

No honorable hacker or modder can be satisfied with a simple candle inside of a pumpkin.  How boring!  Us proud nerds step up and create unique, appealing, and downright stunning pumpkins complete with lasers, LEDs, robotics, motion sensors,...
GhostBusters DIY Halloween Costume (Arduino Powered)

GhostBusters DIY Halloween Costume (Arduino Powered)

For your DIY Halloween costume this year, Learn how to make your own Ghostbusters Proton Pack equipt with red and green lasers (above).  There is a full tutorial on how to build your own along with a detailed photogallery of the proton pack.  An...
Inspiration: Rise of the Scrap Metal Robots

Inspiration: Rise of the Scrap Metal Robots

They say that Michelangelo saw a masterpiece in every block of stone. Some of these creative minds see a robot in a pile of household junk.  More precisely - a junk robot, or junkbot as they're called.  Little metal creations made from discarded...
Ben Heck: The Man, The Myth, The Legend.

Ben Heck: The Man, The Myth, The Legend.

If for some strange reason you don't know of Benjamin Heckendorn  (Ben Heck), he's the king of hacking and modding, a console modder extraordinaire who turns consoles into laptops, and just about any gaming related hack you could possibly think...
DIY Blu-Ray 300mw Laser Raygun

DIY Blu-Ray 300mw Laser Raygun

We're plenty familiar with the famous phasers of Star Trek, set to stun or kill and now you can build your own blue laser phaser gun.  Taking the shell from a toy laser gun, this modder user two blu-ray laser diodes.  Although blu-ray lasers can...