General Hacks

Hack N Mod T-Shirt Design Contest

Hack N Mod T-Shirt Design Contest

**UPDATE** - Extended until Jan 28th. Keep the entries coming! It's about time we make fancy new t-shirts and we need your help! Some fantastic circuitry shirts shwon above for your inspiration. Plus, everyone who enters an exceptional design will...
Impressive LEGO Star Wars Scene with LEDs

Impressive LEGO Star Wars Scene with LEDs

Using 60,000 LEGOs and sleek blue LEDs, one LEGO Star Wars enthusiast built this fantastic 5'x10' snow diorama filled with At-Ats, storm troopers and incredible details. It took him four years and three thousand dollars to create. Visit our...
HacknMod Christmas Giveaway: Free Shirts, Stickers & Project Supplies

HacknMod Christmas Giveaway: Free Shirts, Stickers & Project Supplies

**Update** Contest has ended - Thanks to everyone who entered. Merry Christmas! To show our appreciation this Christmas, we're giving away free gifts to our readers. That's right, completely free, just sign up to win. tee shirts, thousands of...
Digital Billiards Guide Shows you the Best Shot

Digital Billiards Guide Shows you the Best Shot

This digital billiards guide uses a webcam to analyze a pool table and then projects lines displaying perfect angles and deflection paths. Â A perfect tool for learning the physics of billiards. Â Full source code and demonstration video are...
Fun with Ferrofluid Liquid Magnets and Sulfur Hexafluoride

Fun with Ferrofluid Liquid Magnets and Sulfur Hexafluoride

Taking a break from circuitry, we're going to show you some outstanding chemistry hacks. First, we have liquid magnets called ferrofluid (which you can buy on eBay or make your own). Next, we have fantastic demonstrations of sulfur...
$10 Hacker Gifts at the HacknMod Store

$10 Hacker Gifts at the HacknMod Store

Quality Servo Motors Basic Dynam Servo Motor - $9.99 8.4g Dynam Servo Motor - $6.86 LED Throwie Supplies Exceptional LEDs: 10 LEDs for $2.99 50 LEDs for $6.99 Coin Cell Batteries: 5 batteries for $2.69 20 batteries for $5.14 Strong Rare...
Earn Money from Your Projects

Earn Money from Your Projects

Build an incredible electronics project? Find one somewhere on the web? If it’s impressive and unique, we’ll pay you for it. How to Earn Money: If you send us an entire project write up and if we choose to use it on the site,...
Human-Computer Interactive Whiteboard Pong

Human-Computer Interactive Whiteboard Pong

Take a regular whiteboard, markers, and a projector and you can play Pong on your wall. It's a physics based engine that reacts to it's real time surroundings. The program recognizes the black lines and causes the ball to behave...
Powerful DIY Magnet Projects

Powerful DIY Magnet Projects

Learn to master magnetic forces to create outstanding magnet powered catapults, magnet powered Gauss guns, magnet levitation, and more. Luckily, we sell neodymium magnets in our store for an affordable price. Plus, with 3,000 satisfied...
Do you have “The Knack?”

Do you have "The Knack?"

What makes engineers tick? Why do we love taking things apart and building our own creations? Scientists have recently pinpointed why and provided the detailed documentary video shown above. Odds are, if you're reading this site, you do have the...