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• Grad Gown LED VU Meter 18 minutes ago Hacked Gadgets
    You may remember the Grad Cap LED Hack that we had here last year, this Grad Gown LED hack uses a bunch of LEDs that are connected to an audio detection circuit that makes it into a VU meter! It is one of the entries in the Curious Inventor Contest, this is the last day [...]
• Faster browsing with RAM disks 8 hours ago Hack a Day
  A coworker approached us today wondering if they could get a performance boost using Samsung’s newly announced 256GB SSD. Most of their work is done in browser, so we said “no”. They’d only see benefit if they were reading/writing large files. Their system has plenty of RAM, and we decided to take a different approach. [...]
• duiPhone hack 12 hours ago Hack a Day
  Tellart turned an iPhone into a duiPhone with its latest Sketchtools kit. Combine a 3G iPhone, an ordinary store-bought breathalyzer, and the NADA Mobile, which consists of a communication board, sensors, and actuators, and get a useful iPhone application. Blow into the mouthpiece, and the iPhone will inform you if you can safely drive, or [...]
• Boom Bench 14 hours ago Hack a Day
  German designer [Michael Schoner] of NL Architects turned an ordinary street bench into a public sound system that can be accessed by passersby with iPods and cellphones with Bluetooth. Boom Bench features 60 watt co-axial speakers, two subwoofers, and a bass shaker in the seat that’ll allow you to feel the vibrations of your music [...]
• ti-84 LED mod 14 hours ago Hack a Day
  Add lights to your graphing calculator. Do it now. [Sil3ntP8nd8] added some, and seems to have done a decent job. They are spread around the back, supplying a nice even light on, well, on whatever is under your calculator. It may be difficult to see too much detail though on account of the water marks. [...]
• Sonar navigation jacket 15 hours ago Hack a Day
  [Lynne] had this crazy idea to build a piece of clothing that would give you feedback about your surroundings using sonar. She started with a carefully selected thrift store jacket. She wanted something that looked good and also provided plenty of places to hide electronics. She used the LilyPad system, with a vibration pad and [...]
• ?Interplanetary internet? passes first test 15 hours ago Hack a Day
  NASA just completed the first deep-space test of what could one day become the interplanetary internet. Images of Mars and its moon Phobos were sent back and forth between computers on Earth and NASA’s Epoxi spacecraft. Instead of TCP/IP a new protocol, named “Disruption/Delay Tolerant Networking” (DTN) was used. Information is only sent once with [...]
• 100 Blogs that grow you Brain 22 hours ago Hacked Gadgets
    OnlineUniversities.com has put together a list of 100 blogs that will make you smarter. The blog list is broken into 10 categories with 10 blogs in each one. I am honoured to see that Hacked Gadgets has made it in the DIY category. Is this list link bait? I don’t think so since I would [...]
• Webcam Vision Projects 23 hours ago Hacked Gadgets
    Ashish Derhgawen has done lots of interesting work with vision. You can see all of his projects on his Ashish’s Programming Journal. Best of all the vision is captured with a simple webcam which makes these projects possible for any hobbyist. Here are a few links to my favorite projects of his. Laser Pointer used as [...]
• Professional soldering guide 1 day ago Hack a Day
  Curious Inventor pointed out a cache of training materials provided by IPC. IPC is a trade organization that publishes standards for producing and evaluating electronics. They’re great looking full color guides that most hobbyists will probably never get their hands on. They have low resolution video demos as well. Go snag them now in case [...]