After looking at a few DIY flashlights that included the Hacked Gadgets Mouse Light the Garage Door Remote Flashlight was an obvious progression! This hack looks great, I will have to keep my eye open when I go to my next garage sale.

“I took the circuit board from the case, snapped the case back together and used a drill press to make the two holes. I then soldered the LEDs in series to fit the mouting holes, added the resistor and a little electrical tape to prevent shorts and there you have it.”

You may remember the first RGB light from tobe.nimio.info. They have made a new and improved version. A schematic is also provided.

“After making my pyramid mood light with 12 high power leds, i decided to make a bigger and better version, without the emphasis on the low budget.. After all, the pyramid mood lamp was more of a proof of concept with its shortcomings. I wanted the new mood lamp to be more powerful, so it could also be used in daylight conditions. I did this by using a z-power 3 watt RGB power led. This one led is far more powerful than the 12 ones combined i used before. The colors also mix better because of the wider opening angle and because the rgb chips lay very close together.”

Via: Make

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This robot reminds me of the car eating robots that were shown at the intermission of car races.

“Initially our mechs will be used for entertainment purposes and will eventually be fitted to fight in a large arena designed to accommodate these great machines. The pilot control is a special system called mech interface manual integration control (mimic) system, designed specifically to allow the mech to emulate any movement done by the controlling pilot”

Via: TechEBlog