FUTURE HACK:I take great pride in all of my gear, but there is one device that holds so much potential for numerous hack projects, XBMC. I've looked at this streaming media box as a mystery researching the many facets and functions and just how far I...
THE GENERAL CONCEPT:The chances of this happening is on the unlikely side, but the contemplation on the collaboration to do a "professional movie camera" would be amazing. The product would be every hackers / filmmakers dream, an all purpose studio built...
I don't know that all of these are worth putting on IO, but I will list them here, so anyone with any interest or input can contact me about them. Some may end up as a project when I am ready to work on them.I have a Xenetech 912 rotary engraver that...
I cut the pcb just above the bottom of the zig zag pcb antenna, remove the copper going from the signal line and ground, then scap the soldermask off near the passives, that is also a grounded point.On the revers side scrape off the soldermask...
WORKING: IN PROGRESSThis is going right into one of my project folder, even though, I have three custom builds already in the works it would be the easiest to finish. I got to pull together specs because I'm not going to do a traditional portable Gameboy...
A friend told me once that her flatmate wanted to build a LED cube and I was like "pfff, I can do that..". I started to look for LEDs and stuff I would need, but had so much stuff laying around, that I said "use the stuff you already have" and harvested...
One of my focuses is to create work that will interact with the viewer. Project Ideas include:Robotic body parts (inspired by Sifi films and games) that light up twitch and make sounds when a viewer triggers it.A sound board made of hundreds of...
A delta-bot making hand brew coffee (oh, the irony). Since the process of making hand brew is so difficult, the pre-soak/extraction process can be visualized and edited in an online web interface with drag-drop functionality. Support for different profiles/coffe...
If you are a Scientist, Inventor, or like to dabble in many creative crafts Tesla influenced the idea in some way. In the near future would like to venture into one of his inspiring inventions and recreate it from the ground up. The article is about...
I have a number of project ideas scribbled on paper or flying around in my head and getting lost that I need somewhere to organize them. This is just a list of ideas that might or might not amount to anything in the long run. I will add to this list...
I’m not sure if any of the developers using the prototype Google Glass devices have devised this idea yet or not, but it’s been going through my head constantly the last few days. I wish I had one so I can figure out its programming. But the idea is...
Whenever I watch sci-fi films, TV shows, etc., I always tend to over-think certain scenes or actions which catches my eye as being near unbelievable or unachievable. My thoughts go into how we can make them achievable, and thus believable to the mass...
Since failing to reach the semifinals of the HaD space race, my project can reveal its true form: a DIY space program. Soon those who mocked the mad scientist will cover in terror! HAHAHAHAHA! ^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^WA lot of the work that the open community...
[by Bill Herd]My introduction to electronic manufacturing was as a production technician at Pennsylvania Scale Company in Leola PA in the early 1980’s. I learned that to work on what I wanted to work on I had to get my assigned duties done by noon...