General Hacks

HacknMod Challenge & T-Shirt Contest: 1 Day Left

HacknMod Challenge & T-Shirt Contest: 1 Day Left

Just a reminder that we've extended our t-shirt contest to accept entries until the end of tomorrow, June 10th. Please see our original post for full details and prizes. Soon we'll be launching our first HacknMod challenge allowing you to show...
High Power Laser Build With Thermoelectric Cooling

High Power Laser Build With Thermoelectric Cooling

Here's a fantastic tutorial from Jay, a DIY lasers expert. This tutorial will walk you through building your own incredibly high power laser and cooling it using Peltier plates. The peltiers are cheap and so is the box, fan, and heatsink. The big...
Tour of Segway Inventor Dean Kamen’s Geektastic Home

Tour of Segway Inventor Dean Kamen's Geektastic Home

In case you've been living under a rock for the last 10 years, Dean Kamen is the genius behind the segway, stair climbing wheelchair, super water purifer and artifical robotic arms.  To raise money for a local fundraiser, Dean opened up his...
Tee Shirt Design Contest!

Tee Shirt Design Contest!

We're restarting our previous t-shirt design contest to find the perfect design for our new t-shirts and we need your help!  Everyone who enters an exceptional design will be sent free Hack N Mod stickers.  So send us your sweet designs and...
How to: DIY High Speed Book Scanner

How to: DIY High Speed Book Scanner

Here's a completely new project we haven't yet covered on Hack N Mod. The closest we have come is to show you how to digitize a book and turn it into a PDF file. For this latest project, learn how to make your own high speed book scanner to...
What’s New at Hack N Mod - May 2009

What's New at Hack N Mod - May 2009

Just thought I'd write a quick post to let everyone know the "State of the Union" if you will.  I'd first like to apologize for the recent downtime this past week.  We're in the middle of a server upgrade and transfer so please bear with...
How Would you Improve HacknMod? Win Prizes!

How Would you Improve HacknMod? Win Prizes!

Here at HacknMod, we're always trying to improve to deliver you top quality content.  So we're going to you, the loyal readers to ask you how you would improve HacknMod if you ran the site.  Perhaps you'd like more posts everyday? More items...
Last Day: 25% off Lasers, LEDs & Light Bulbs

Last Day: 25% off Lasers, LEDs & Light Bulbs

In case you missed it, we launched a Hack N Mod store sale last week featuring 25% off our 5mm LEDs, lasers and LED Light Bulbs.  We’re practically giving away our most popular products which were already heavily discounted. The sale...
DIY Macro Photography Kit on the Cheap

DIY Macro Photography Kit on the Cheap

In a quick break from our typical hacks and mods, learn to create a simple macro (close up) photography setup allowing you to create some fantastic, professional shots (see some samples below).   I'm an avid photography fan, and besides nature...
Robotic Bicycle Adventure Across America

Robotic Bicycle Adventure Across America

Steven Robert's Microship project is a "technomadic" (technology nomad, get it?) adventure  traveling the country with his computer laden recumbent bicycle which is now on display in the  computer history museum, situated in Silicon...