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Circuitry Hacks |
 | Ridiculous Giant Pneumatic Alarm Clock
Although you have to laugh at the absurd demo vid above, you still have to admire the great engineering work. The pneumatic bed shaking alarm clock is for the deepest sleepers you know. The contraption works by an air fed valve from two... |
 | RFID Enabled Mp3 Player Hack using Arduino
This is a fantastic, unique project which uses RFID tagged pictures to select and play album. The system utilizes the easy to use arduino microcontroller platform along with an RFID reader and is also ethernet enabled. See more pics and... |
 | Powerful Blu-Ray Laser on a Keychain
Here’s another fantastic tutorial from Jay, a DIY lasers expert. See all of our DIY laser projects. I picked up this little key chain light at Lowe's. It is made from a solid piece of brass. It is very heavy duty, but very small.
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 | Incredible, Colorful RGB LED Light Strip
This incredible, RGB LED light strip allows you to address each and every LED individually, creating splendid color patters. If you were challenged by the Open Source POV Bicycle Wheel Animation project we covered last week or were thinking of... |
 | DIY Internet Enabled Arduino Messenger
Is there anything that the Arduino microcontroller can’t do? Just look at the vast assortment of applications in Top 40 Arduino Projects of the Web we've covered earlier. Here's another awesome arduino project by Hans Scharler. Hans uses an... |
 | RGB Computer Controlled LED Bottle Wall
What is it about the combination of color and light which makes us automatically drawn to it ? Quite appropriately the video demo of Alex Beim’s LED bottle wall project is without sound. It’s all visual illumination as we watch 253 bottles... |
 | Incredible Hexapod Robot with Claws and Webcam
Just when you thought that Hexapod robots were the best, the guys of at the Tekkotsu lab at Carnegie Mellon University develop the Chiara robot, a fully articulated 6-legged robot, which claws and high-end webcam for precision navigating and... |
 | Open Source POV Bicycle Wheel Animation
We recently covered a fantastic POV system which displays animation or pictures on your bicycle tires as you ride. Instead of buying that kit, you can learn to make your own quite easily. This open source POV bike tutorial walks you through the... |
 | EL Wire Powered Ethernet Patch Cables
Forget the days of trying to locate the correct cables in patch rooms like the one pictured above. Using power over ethernet (POE), this hacker laced a standard patch cable with Electroluminescent wire (abbreviated as EL wire) allowing him to... |
 | Solar Energy Setup Tutorial = Free Electricity
We've posted many tutorials about how to build your own solar panel arrays to create your own green energy. Here's yet another outstanding tutorial to guide you through the build process. Al tough it may seem a little daunting, the setup is... |
