Zedomax DIY 6-Axis Airplane Joystick

The guys over at Zedomax.com designed an airplane joystick that responds like the ps3s six axis joystick. The project is not to useful being in a plane, but the concept can be used in various projects. Read the complete workup at Zedomax.com

GP2X Open Source Portable Gaming Device

The GP2X is an open-source, Linux-based handheld video game console and media player. The device is created and sold by GamePark Holdings of South Korea. The thing that makes this gaming console cool is that the company is trying to do things that the PSP(Very limited portable gaming device, sold by a greedy …

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DIY: Make an alarm system in 3 minutes!

Small little project with a Cubloc CB280 Start Kit evaluation board. This guy shows how easy it is to put together a simple alarm with board, keypad, alarm, and reed switches. The code looks very simple. I have been trying to get this old ass alarm to work in my house. I think it …

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Electronic Controlled LED Fountain Video

Here’s one I found on You tube. The fountain is a smaller colorful version of the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The audio sucks.

Liquid Time Machine Can Manipulate Drops

“Nate True has developed yet another impressive hack using UV strobe lights, luminescent-dyed water, and a timer to create the illusion of water stopping in the air, slowing down the splashes into the pool beneath, and even travelling upward. You have to see it to believe it.”

Cool machine uses UV Leds to give …

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Cockroach Controlled Robot

This unique robot is controlled by cockroach intelligence. The cockroach is placed on a small trackball which controls the movement of the robot. The idea is to create a pseudo-intelligent robot. The cockroach is flashed with ultra-bright leds. The leds provide feedback to the roach.

Hacking a Toaster Oven into a reflow Oven

Surface mounted Electronics are becoming the more and more popular. They are small, cheap and are the preferred method used in most electronics. For the average electronic hobbyist, they also are a challenge to work with. Most the time you need a magnifying glass and tweezers just …

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DrawBot – Computer Controlled Robotic Arm

Created as a graduate project by Eric Newman. The DrawBot was created to emulate the emulate the movement of the mouse. The DrawBot is controlled via a HID USB interface, using a Microchips PIC 18F4550 microprocessor to control everything. By using the HID interface the DrawBot can …

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Blue LED car radio mod

Before After

Tired of staring at those old incandescent lights in your factory car stereo. A blog article written by Jason at yorkspace.com take you through the process of adding super bright leds to your factory head unit. Once the factory face plate is removed, the incandescent bulbs can be replaced …

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Automatic bar project

Think about it, you place a glass under the spout select a drink and “BAM”, a perfectly mixed drink. This project allows a user to select a mixed drink from a keypad, the bar then properly pours the right drink out a spout into a glass. The project uses pumps to distribute …

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