Circuitry Hacks

DIY Lighting: Fantastic Labware LED Lamps

DIY Lighting: Fantastic Labware LED Lamps

Ah... the warm ambient lighting of retro chemistry lab equipment...Designer Benjamin Huber created these exceptional custom lights out of hand-blown glass.  While I'm sure they cost an arm and leg, you could easily just pick up some flasks and...
Top 5 Custom LED Beer Pong Tables

Top 5 Custom LED Beer Pong Tables

Beer Pong...The sport of choice of college students.  While we would never, ever support over consumption of alcohol, we must admire the engineering and creativity of these outstanding illuminated tables.  If you're new to LEDs, check out our...
Wallpaper Inspiration: Macro Circuitry Shots

Wallpaper Inspiration: Macro Circuitry Shots

Going ‘macro’ on your photographic subjects reveals details that escapes the human eye. You wouldn’t expect close-up photography of a wafer thin circuit board or a Pentium chip to be eye-catching. But they are; as these collection of...
A DIY Mini RF (Celll Phone) Jammer

A DIY Mini RF (Celll Phone) Jammer

Geeks can be pranksters too. If you're a little mischevious, an RF Jammer is a must have gag tool for the belt. Think of all the pranks you could pull off by blocking radio frequency signals using a jammer, even blocking cell phones from...
KegBot – Beer Keg on Wheels

KegBot – Beer Keg on Wheels

It's a beer guzzler's dream. A beer keg on wheels that motors over to your friends and serves them from the tap. And it's all remote controlled by you. The concept is quite simple really: take a beer keg and mate it with motorized wheels and a...
Incredible $100 Arduino-Based CNC Machine

Incredible $100 Arduino-Based CNC Machine

CNC machines allow you to mill just about any shape or design you'd like using X, Y and Z axis.  Typcailly they cost serveral thousand dollars, but this man built his own CNC machine and wrote up a tutorial on how you can build it yourself. ...
Make a Stunning 8×8x8 LED Cube

Make a Stunning 8x8x8 LED Cube

Here's an awesome tutorial on how to build your own stunning 8x8x8 LED cube (that's 512 blue LEDs!).  Each LED can be controlled individually using special software and integrated circuits.  This enables you to program patterns, animations, and...
Make your own Burning Blue Laser Pointer

Make your own Burning Blue Laser Pointer

This fantastic video demonstrates how to build a powerful, burning blue laser and place it inside a lighter. While you could get the laser diodes from the site mentioned in the video, you should buy the laser diodes way cheaper on eBay. We've...
Hack Parking Meters for Unlimited Free Hours

Hack Parking Meters for Unlimited Free Hours

Joe Grand, hacker extraordinaire is at it again. This time he's developed a way to hack the new "smart" parking meters which are beginning to show up in most major cities. By using a basic oscilloscope, he managed to analyze the prepaid cards...
Make a DIY Wifi Repeater/Range Extender

Make a DIY Wifi Repeater/Range Extender

Problem: A wireless network is just barely out of reach. Solution: Build your own wireless repeater, place it between you and the wireless router and it'll repeat the signal, stronger than before, giving you access to the previously unaccessable...