Leds & Light Hacks

EL Wire Powered Ethernet Patch Cables

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...
DIY Virtual Reality using the Wiimote

DIY Virtual Reality using the Wiimote

See also: Top 30 Wiimote Hacks of the Web Anyone who's interested in virtual reality will find German Timo Fleisch quite fascinating. He's the one who originally came up with a way to combine Nintendo Wii remotes and IR LED's, in order to create...
How to Build your own Tesla Coil

How to Build your own Tesla Coil

Once you've seen a big home-built Tesla coil in operation, you may decide you've got to have one too, even if it's just a tabletop version to play around with.  There are companies offering detailed plans and DIY kits containing all materials...
Desktop Helium Neon Laser Lamp Build

Desktop Helium Neon Laser Lamp Build

Here's another fantastic tutorial from Jay, a DIY lasers expert. See all of our DIY laser projects. I'd like to show off my new desk top laser lamp! It's a fairly simple project and makes for a nice display piece. Basically, this is a 10 inch...
Bicycle Wheel LED Video Displays

Bicycle Wheel LED Video Displays

Monkeylectric has just released the newest version of their bicycle mounted video displays.  Using four strips of  RGB LEDs on each wheel, you can display any video or image on your bike wheels while you ride.  A full video demonstration below...
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...
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...
Mindblowing LED, Light and Laser Photography

Mindblowing LED, Light and Laser Photography

We've seen some projects featuring how to draw with light using your camera's exposure settings, but nothing compares to this.  This group goes by the name of Light Art Performance Photography and they use lasers, LEDs, illuminated body suits,...
Incredible Coil Gun with LEDs and Lasers

Incredible Coil Gun with LEDs and Lasers

We've seen a few coil guns before, but nothing comes close to this beauty.  Stuffed with sexy blue LEDs, a red laser sight, ammo magazine and massive capacitors, this coil gun is ready for war. Below are some detailed stats and specs about the...
How to: Pocket sized 7 Color Laser with Spiro Projector

How to: Pocket sized 7 Color Laser with Spiro Projector

Hack N Mod's laser expert, Roger (widely known as rog8811), has another fantastic laser tutorial for us.  After finishing my first 7 color laser I decided to look at ways of making a smaller, pocket sized, version. You will discover as you read...