Category Archives: gadget

NOT-A-CAMERA, the 2D camera that shoots JPGs and HD video

Olivia Barr writes about her latest project, the NOT-A-CAMERA: Introducing my latest creation, the NOT-A-CAMERA! It’s a REAL camera designed to look like a fake 2D camera etched into wood that shoots HD video and 3.5mb jpgs. Yep, it’s a functional camera, a spy camera laser cut in solid walnut and only half an inch thick. There is […]

Hack your Valentine with HeartThrob

A geek love by Boris Landoni: Hack your Valentine with HeartThrob Today we present the perfect Valentine gadget: just shake it and it will turn on and crate incredible light animations. That will be cool for sure! We know that, as it’s Valentine’s Day, looking at the device described in this post you’ll be inclined to […]

Light up logic symbols – Or RS-FlipFlops the weird way

NsN writes: At the OHM 2013 Festival, I got inspired to make some logic gates that work with light. The basic idea is to have a simple and cheap gadget, that can become an AND/OR/XOR… gate. You could then connect multiple of these gates via fiber optics to make more complex circuits. Via the forum.

Becks beer bottle with an audio recording scratched on it

Here’s an Instructable by GYRO:  Becks beer bottle with an audio recording scratched on it We ground a high-speed steel cutting tool which we polished to mirror finish resulting in a very quiet cut, all this taking place under a microscope! We also have a couple of sapphire tips which we used for some test […]

Smart audio box

Dilshan Jayakody has written an article about his open hardware project known as Smart Audio Box (SAB): Smart Audio Box (SAB) is microprocessor controlled audio switch and amplifier system, which is specifically design for audio composers and for audio engineers. SAB consist of 4 high impedance stereo inputs and two output modes. One output mode […]

Eidos sensory perception enhancing masks

Here’s a cool Eidos sensory augmentation device designed by Tim Bouckley, Millie Clive-Smith, Mi Eun Kim and Yuta Sugawara that lets you fine-tune your sight and hearing: A group of students from the Royal College of Art in London has developed headsets that allow the wearer to adjust their sight and hearing in the same way they’d […]

Mobile POV device uses Parallax Propeller

Here’s a unique mobile POV device using the Parallax Propeller. Gareth (chiprobot) designed this gadget using the Propeller MCU driving eight UV LEDs, blasting UV light onto a phosphorescent sheet of vinyl. He says the coding utilizes the Propeller’s built-in ROM character map, so code size is very small (i.e., no big data tables). You […]

Amazing new touchscreen interface

Fujitsu Laboratories: Touchscreen interface for seamless data transfer between the real and virtual worlds This new gadget comes directly from Fujitsu Laboratories. They developed what seems to be the next generation of user interface! It can accurately detect the operator’s fingers and hand, and can react to certain movements and gestures. A projector from above […]

ARUCI: Augmented Reality Universal Controller and Identifier

Frank Zhao is part of a group of ECE students at UW who just finished their design project symposium. His group’s project is ARUCI: Augmented Reality Universal Controller and Identifier. We are quite proud of it, and to challenge yourself, try figuring out how we are doing it without reading our presentation (the video also […]

The Annoy: a 10F202 based tiny intelligent buzzer

Chris from PyroElectro sent in this link to his project post for a device which generates some chirping and buzz-like noises every few minutes in order to slowly drive people nearby insane. The circuit consists of a PIC 10F202 MCU, two caps, CR2032 battery and speaker. He built the project as a way to illustrate […]

Resistor cutting robot from .:Oomlout:.

On our Shenzhen trip we were joined by the Oomlout team. While discussing a reel-to-strip cutting robot, Aaron mentioned that he has a resistor cutting robot. It’s built from laser cut MDF and acrylic, with a bunch of servos attached to load and cut the resistor tape. The project is open source, so all the […]

Hackers get to poke at obsolete Peek devices

LinuxDevices reports that the now defunct Peek email service is offering free surplus hardware to hackers. “Peek has discontinued its low-cost, email-and-texting service but is challenging hackers to “build something great” with the leftover handhelds, according to The Verge. The Peek devices include a 2.5-inch screen, a QWERTY keyboard, an ARM7-based processor, and a GSM […]

DEFCON 20 badge features Parallax Propeller

DEFCON 20 is currently underway in Las Vegas and this year the electronic hackable badge is back! This year the badge is based on the Parallax Propeller P8X32A 32-bit multicore processor. “The badge features an infrared LED and receiver for badge-to-badge communication, a bank of eight LEDs for visual feedback and a USB circuit for […]

TP-Link WR703N lowest cost openWRT compatable Wi-Fi router

The TP-Link WR703N (machine translation) is a small Wi-Fi router that’s easy to hack, and flash with openWRT. The best feature about it is that it cost only $20 on eBay. It features a single host USB connector making it easy to connect USB devices to it. The processor runs at 400Mhz, with 4MB of […]