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Combination Lock-Picking Robot: Where Was This in Middle School?
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I have never had a great memory. I tend to pack my brain with all sorts of facts, and the facts least important to my daily life are the ones that stick. I really hated middle school when the lockers in athletics used Master locks that had combinations. I would… |
March 12th, 2011
Kinect-omation Hack Controls Room Lights
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Kinect hacks are the big new thing for geeks with time on their hands. That’s all fine and good since many of the hacks we have seen lately are actually things that are interesting. A hack has surfaced today that takes the Kinect and turns it into a home automation… |
March 10th, 2011
iPotti Lets You Know When the Throne is Vacant
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Years ago, when I had a “real job,” we had one bathroom in the entire place. The thing I always hated was if you waited too long to take a leak and had to go right then, someone was always in the bathroom. Apparently, I am not the only one… |
March 10th, 2011
iPhone 4 Broadens Its Color Palette
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Sure, you can easily get an iPhone 4 in black – and if Apple ever gets their act together – white, too. I’ve even seen a slick transparent iPhone 4 hack. But this is the first time I’ve come across a way to get the phone in other colors without… |
March 1st, 2011
Phantom of the Floppera: Floppy Music x4
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We’ve heard floppy drive music hacks before, but never on this grand of a scale. By wiring a few floppy drives to a microcontroller, YouTuber FunToTheHead cranked out this beautifully musical floppy drive hack.… |
February 28th, 2011
Sneaker Speakers Play Music, Not Tennis
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I’ve seen some wacky speakers over the years – even a pair that looked like high heels. We even had a Nintendo NES crammed into a shoe. But I can officially tell you that this is the first time we’ve featured a pair of speakers built into sneakers here on… |
February 27th, 2011
Kinect Hole in the Wall Hack Needs to be a Real Game
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If you ever saw that Hole in the Wall… game show, you know how ridiculous the concept of people standing around waiting to not get hit by a moving wall can be. Now, thanks to a clever hack with the Microsoft Kinect, it looks like you could someday play the |
February 19th, 2011
Cheap RC Car Modded With Arduino and PC for Telepresence and More
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I really like cool RC gear, but the problem for me is that most of the RC cars have a very limited range. You get the things too far from you and they just won’t respond. DIYer Pierric Gimming has taken an off the shelf RC truck for the toy… |
February 17th, 2011
Roomba Vacuum Controlled By Microsoft Kinect
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We can all agree that vacuuming sucks. It’s no fun to push that thing around the house sucking up all the debris and dirt that you and your family schleps inside. I have always thought that the inventor the Roomba should have been nominated for a Nobel Prize of some… |
February 17th, 2011
The 500-Dollar iRobot Telepresence Hack
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I get the fact that some people need telepresence, but ultimately even the cheapest options can cost you thousands. That’s why I really like this telepresence robot hack from Johnny Chung Lee. The best news is that it only costs $500.… |
February 14th, 2011
