RETRACTABLE WOLVERINE CLAWS

By ofojf

With Halloween only a month away you’ll want to begin rounding up materials to develop something such as this now. Nate took the time to make this job look right. He enlarged a picture to make sure the scale was correct for the claws. The claws are mounted securely to a drawer slider Taxi driver…

PANELIZING PCBS IN EAGLE

By ofojf

A great deal of the board homes available including Seeed as well as ITead studios have a fixed size for circuit boards before the cost goes up. A one-inch square board costs the exact same as a much larger 5cm x 5cm board, making panelized PCBs a fantastic method to get a lot more boards…

WHAT ARE the best HACKING DOCUMENTARIES?

By ofojf

continuing with our series of best and worst portrayals of hacking, we’re gathering our resources to bring you the top 10 Hacking Documentaries. Again, we feel the strongest resource is the hacking community, so lets hear what you think ought to qualify.  While it would be wonderful to only have documentaries, if there is a…

MONOCULAR HEAD MOUNTED screen

By ofojf

[Xenonjon] wished to make a heads Up screen that he might utilize while preserving the capability to see. the most rational option was a monocular set up.  He had an old Eye-Trek laying around as well as chose to sacrifice it to make his heads Up Display. integrating a screen from his TV glasses as…

OPTICAL mouse BASED SCANNER

By ofojf

ever wonder what your desk surface looks like up close? No. no one has. Not even [Sprite_tm], but upon disassembling his optical mouse and discovering its 18×18 CCD he made a decision to put it to use (well, a different use). The optical chip outputs serial information to the USB chip in the mouse. [Sprite_tm]…

VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE update

By ofojf

[Faroun] sent in his updated vertical wind turbine. After running his previous one for a while, he felt that the motor he was using was inadequate, it needed too high of RPM to produce what he wanted. He didn’t want to gear it up, fearing that the light construction couldn’t sustain rotation. He developed a…

TICKLE-ME-ELMO… FROZEN IN CARBONITE

By ofojf

We at [HAD] love any hack that combines children’s toys with science-fiction technology, so seeing a Tickle-Me-Elmo “frozen” in [Carbonite] is a certain win in our book. It’s also a terrific argument for joining your local Hackerspace, or just getting together with some like-minded friends. This idea came out of an impromptu brain-storming, or “talking…

3D printing SENSOR MOUNTS FOR THE OCULUS RIFT

By ofojf

While browsing an oculus rift thread on reddit, I saw somebody mention exactly how nice it would be to have some actual mounts for outside sensors on their Rift. The concept is that adding extra sensors or cameras will enable us to broaden the abilities of the rift. With something like the Razor Hydra, you…

EASY G1 ROOTING

By ofojf

It’s been lots of months considering that the T-Mobile G1 was at first rooted. in that time, the process has been streamlined as well as tools have been developed to make it much easier. having a rooted phone has ended up being even a lot more desirable with the recent release of the 1.5 firmware…

EXTRACTING SECURED FIRMWARE FROM FREESCALE ZIGBEE RADIOS

By ofojf

[Travis Goodspeed] recently tore down the Freescale MC13224 wireless radio chip in an effort to demonstrate how the device’s firmware could be read, even when locked down in “secure” mode. While you might not recognize the Freescale MC13224 radio by name alone, you are certainly familiar with some of its useful applications. found in the…