When you are working in an office environment make sure you don’t keep it serious all the time. Creative thoughts are often nurtured by some fun and entertainment. This Hidden Ping Pong Ball Shooter Prank by ckBot is a great example of this. I bet some of the best ideas were thought about that afternoon [...]

This virtual face looks quite realistic. ATM machines have removed most of the tellers out of banks will this technology allow for a few sales people provide virtual help in all departments of a store?

The SBU (Self Balancing Unicycle) which we have featured in the past is now in the hands of Adam Savage from Mythbusters. This thing looks like tons of fun to ride! I would think the learning curve would be much less than on a traditional unicycle?
“SPECIFICATIONS:
• Speed 10 MPH
• Range: 10 miles
• Weight: [...]

If you are going to build something you might as well over design and over build it right? If you don’t agree you can go and pick up whatever you need at your local Walmart. Here we have an excellent example of over engineering something, you can get spring loaded mouse traps for about a [...]

Mikey Sklar shows us how a small device can bring damaged batteries back to life. When these batteries are at their end of life they are normally recycled for the lead that’s inside. It isn’t an easy job since the battery is obviously also filled with acid. So the battery isn’t even worth its weight [...]

What do you do when you have animals to look after but don’t have enough hours in the day to care for all their needs? Well we have seen uses of technology to feed your animals automatically. Food isn’t the only need, of course they need water also. But have no fear technology can help [...]

Anna Ceguerra has been making some interesting applications with the 4D Systems OLED displays. This is her version of Tetris for the 4D Systems platform. You still have the rest of today to enter the contest that 4D is sponsoring, if you win, your project could be the next one featured on Hacked Gadgets. [...]

Joe Carruth has harnessed the power of the sun by creating a huge Solar Mirror Array in Colorado. This array boils 12 gallons of water to generate steam and the steam powers a twin piston steam engine. The steam engine is attached to a 12KW Generator with a straight shaft. Considering that this solar array [...]

The team over at Gadget Gangster have been real busy. The Super GrooveAxe a new product that is now available on their site.
“Percussion in your pocket. Feel the tiny boom! With your Super GrooveAxe, the beats will always be with you, so you’ll never feel lonely again. The Super GrooveAxe is a simple to build [...]

Thanks to Dean for sending in a tip about this cool Holocube - 3D Projection Platform. Is this the monitor of the future? Do you have a tip about something cool, be sure to let us know!
“Holocube is a fully integrated 3D projection platform. It combines the most
advanced modern projection techniques in a [...]

Anna Ceguerra saw the prize for the contest this week and sent in some of the work she has been doing with the 4D Systems components.
“This demo shows how to communicate between a uOLED display and the uCAM. The 4DGL code attached includes the following functionality:

A text-based menu system on the uOLED, displaying the various [...]

Here is a good video about communicating amongst multiple microcontrollers. In this case they are NerdKits that are distributing sign data so that a huge Multi-Panel LED Array can be built. Even if you aren’t interested in the project have a look at it for the SPI info.
“In this project, we put a new [...]

Circuit bending can be lots of fun. This Circuit Bent Boot project takes it one step further by placing the circuit in a fun object. The Circuit Bent Boot sure looks like tons more fun than an Altoids tin!
Via: Hacked Gadgets Comments
“The project consists of the following materials:

a rubber rain boot
a small toy keyboard
one potentiometer [...]

Google Chrome is the new browser from the giant Google. Being Google they have decided to implement certain features in the browser that are a bit different than their competitors. Watch the above video to see what is really happening behind the scenes.
Via: Geeks are Sexy

Have a look at the My 2uF blog for some interesting developments of an 8 RGB LED Ring project. There is lots of blog entries covering everything from board design to a working demo of project. He is using an interesting RGB surface mount LED, they seem to be very susceptible to heat which sounds [...]

Thanks to 4D Systems for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a DK-160G1 (OLED development kit) and a SOMO-14D Embedded Audio-Sound Module to the winner. This is about $175 dollars worth of gear which will let you play with the latest and greatest in OLED technology. 4D Systems is an Australian based [...]

 
The Cornell University ECE 5760 Advanced Microcontroller course is done! As usual there are lots of interesting creations that have full documentation for us to have a look at. There are 10 projects posted (2 of them still need the project details to be added). This time there is a great variety of projects, everything [...]

rotating kitchen from Zeger Reyers on Vimeo.
 
You got to love art, this kitchen will be rotating for 3 months. I wonder how it will smell in the end? Looks like this art exhibit was built with the same criteria that I develop projects with, it needs to be fun an interesting but not necessarily serve [...]

 
This is a good video of the roots of Makerbot. I have one of these on the wish list, I would love to be able to print 3D parts!
"The sign on the door reads MakerBot industries. Inside, boxes line the floors and there is a flurry of activity. A light humming sound fills the air. [...]

The prize this week is one of my Button Code kits. This kit was lots of fun to make and it provides a unique way to enter in a secure code. You can see documentation about it here, if you want to get your own Button Code kit they are available here (if you buy [...]